Deccan Chronicle

KCR LOSES COOL, CALLS PEOPLE ‘BEWAKOOF’

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasek­har Rao called the people bewakoof for making noise during his speech and asked if they “lacked sense” during a public address at Alampur on Tuesday.

He was speaking about the irrigation scenario , when the audience started making noise. A visibly irked Chandrasek­har Rao said, “Why are you shouting? Are you bewakoof galu? Don’t you have sense? You seem to have gone mad (pichollu)”.

Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasek­har Rao on Tuesday appealed to the people of Telangana to show their gratitude to his party, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which had achieved statehood for Telangana.

He said it is the right time for the people of Telangana to exhibit their gratitude for the TRS which had introduced scores of welfare schemes and developmen­t programmes.

Addressing public meetings in Alampur, the chief minister announced that the state will get its rightful share of 15.9 TMC water from the Rajoliband­a Diversion Scheme which will increase the area under cultivatio­n in the constituen­cy from 85,000 acres to 1.25 lakh acres by making optimum use of water allocated to Telangana by the Bachawat Tribunal from the Tungabhadr­a River.

He recalled that during his first padyatra from Rajoli to Gadwal, he had noticed the woes of farmers in erstwhile Mahabubnag­ar district in cultivatin­g their lands and even for getting drinking water, during the Congress and Telugu Desam regimes. When Congress leader Byreddy Rajashekha­r Reddy threatened to breach canals using bombs and divert RDS water to Rayalaseem­a, not a single leader from Telangana opened his mouth, Mr Rao said.

He said that Congress leaders who are keen to criticise him did nothing to protect the rights of the people of Alampur.

He maintained that the TRS government undertook

numerous projects including the Thummilla Lift Irrigation Scheme soon after formation of the new state.

“Harish Rao took up the project on a war footing. Naidu objected to the project and lodged complaints with the Central government.

Harish Rao immediatel­y raised objections about the Machumarri project in AP which made Naidu and his colleagues shut their mouths.”

The Chief Minister also addressed public meetings in Gadwal, Makthal and Kodangal constituen­cies.

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