Congress accepts early election bait

TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that if Mr Chandrasekhar Rao goes to the Governor and asks him to dissolve the Assembly who will stop him?

TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and AICC TS incharge R.C. Khuntia have accepted Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s challenge on early elections to the Assembly. They said the Congress was ready to face elections rightaway.

Speaking to mediapersons on Monday at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy said, “Whether it is May 2019 or December 2018 or today, the Congress is fully prepared to pull down the TRS’ corrupt and insensitive regime. Early polls is good news for the people as we can get rid of KCR a few months earlier”.

He said, “if Mr Rao goes to the Governor and asks him to dissolve the Assembly who will stop him?”

He said injustice had been done to the people in the last four years of the “dictatorial rule of the TRS government”. He said the people were ready to send the TRS home. He also alleged that Mr Rao was misleading with false surveys.

Mr Khuntia said the Congress in the state and at the Centre were ready to face early elections. He said the TRS was in a very weak condition, which was why it was admitting the Congress leaders.

He said that Mr Rao’s comment that the Congress was not ready for early elections was not correct. “The Congress is ready to face elections whenever it comes,” Mr Khuntia said.

He alleged that the TRS was a ‘Velama party’ and was run by community leaders. He asked if it was possible that a leader from among the BCs, SCs and STs would be made TRS president. He said only the Congress gave important to BCs and weaker sections.

He said the Congress had made BC and weaker sections leaders like Mr V. Hanumantha Rao as PCC president where as in the TRS only leaders from the Velama community can get importance.