Nobody can erase Naidu mark from Hyd: Balayya

Actor and TD MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna on Saturday asked people to teach all those who had defected to the TRS a lesson, launching his longawaited election campaign in Telangana from the Sanathnagar constituency.

While campaigning for Mr Kuna Venkatesh Goud, the TD candidate from Sanathnagar, he said nobody could erase the mark that TD president and Andhra Pradesh

CRITICISING THE TRS and the BJP-led Central governments, the AP MLA alleged that there was a secret alliance between them.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had left on Hyderabad.

Balakrishna said that Mr Naidu had established the software empire in Hyderabad and created millions of jobs for the youth. He said TD founder N.T. Rama Rao had united Telugus and people of the two states have to live up to his aspirations.

Criticising the TRS and the BJP-led Central governments, the AP MLA alleged that there was a secret alliance between both parties. There are expectations that his nephews and actors Jr NTR and Kalyan Ram will campaign for their sister Nandamuri Suhasini in Kukatpally. Another hope of cine buffs is that Balakrishna will canvass with Congress star campaigner Vijayashanti; the two had starrred in several hit films. MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said Telangana state was the most progressive in India and the safest place for Muslims, Dalits and women.

Addressing public meetings at Maqta Madar Sahab, Khairatabad and Musheerabad in support of TRS candidates, Mr Owaisi said that when Muslims and Dalits were targeted across India, no such incident was reported here.

The MIM chief said incidents of mob lynching had sent the message that Muslims and Dalits “were not citizens of the first category; you are not shareholders but the renter”.

Mr Owaisi said Hyderabad is free from riots and no Muslim was targeted in the name of beef.

“In Hyderabad any woman can return home at midnight. Muslims are safe here,” he said.

He said that when the MIM supported the TRS, TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy asked him to reveal details of the deal.

“Yes a pact was executed. We asked KCR to remove educational backwardness and the government opened more than 200 residential schools where 50,000 students are provided quality education, one lakh poor Muslim girls were helped with monetary aid on their wedding,” he said.

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