Vote for BJP get Bhagmati Biryani: Kushboo Will Kavitha wear cheap polyester sarees: Kushboo

■ Veteran actress speech in Telugu got overwhelming response from crowd

Veteran actress Kushboo on Tuesday said people would get ‘Bhagmati Biryani’ instead of Hyderabadi Biryani, if they voted for the BJP and its poll partner TRS in the upcoming Assembly polls since the BJP wanted to change the name of Hyderabad city.

Kushboo was addressing a gathering as part of the Congress party’s roadshow in Adilabad town in support of party candidate Gandrath Sujatha contesting from Adilabad. Recently, BJP leader Raja Singh said the BJP would rename Hyderabad city as Bhagyanagar if they came to power in the state and would respect the sentiments of the Hindus.

Responding to the crowd who asked her to speak about 12 per cent reservations promised to the minority by TRS, she said people would not get 12 percent reservations instead they would get Biryani that too ‘Bhagmati Biryani’. She said TRS was now offering Biryani instead of 12 per cent reservations to the minorities. Hyderabadi Biryani is famous for its delicious taste all over the world. Many famous people often wished to eat Hyderabadi Biryani whenever they visited Hyderabad.

Kushboo said TRS had become old and there was no demand for it like Ambassador cars whose manufacturing company had shut down. Kushboo’s speech in Telugu got overwhelming response from the crowd during the road show. She said TRS and BJP were not separate and asked the crowd to believe that they were one.

She alleged that PM Narendra Modi’s government had amassed huge wealth from the public through GST, demonetisation and other taxes and among that it was spending `4,500 crore on party publicity. The Congress star campaigner, veteran actress Kushboo on Tuesday slammed the TRS for distributing cheap polyester sarees to women on the occasion of Bathukamma. Dripping sarcasm, she told the women to ask CM KCR whether his daughter Kavitha would wear such sub-standard sarees.

Indicating a woman in the motley crowd, Kushboo said that the woman’s saree was better quality than the Bathukamma saree, which had been so generously distributed by the state government. She also criticised KCR for not inducting a single woman minister in the first cabinet of Telangana.

Kushboo said Caretaker CM K Chandrasekhar Rao had not bothered to keep the promise of 2BHK homes to the people, and instead he had constructed Pragati Bhavan with a whopping `300 crores.

She predicted that Congress would probably win the Assembly elections.

She said the aspirations of the people of the state would only be met if the Congress came to power and appealed to citizens to elect Congress nominees in the ten constituencies in old Adilabad district. Adilabad district party working president, Naresh Jadhav and minority department president, Sajid Khan were also present at the poll meeting.