Uttam: TRS, BJP nexus gets clear

N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Congress MP and Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president, on Friday criticised the TRS for attending the President’s address in Parliament even when Opposition parties had boycotted it to extend solidarity to the agitating farmers.

“This has once again proved correct our stand that the TRS and the BJP enjoy tacit understanding. Our contention that it is ‘galli me kusti Delhi me dosti (political rivals in Telangana and allies at the national level) is vindicated, he said.

He was speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the Opposition protest at Gandhi statue in Parliament House. Twenty Opposition parties had boycotted the Presidential address to both Houses to protest against the farm laws. The TRS MPs however attended the event.

Referring to previous instances of the TRS toeing the BJP's line, the Congress MP from Nalgonda said from extending support to the election of Ram Nath Kovind as President to passage of several contentious Bills on triple talaq, Article 370 and GST, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao could not dare to go against the Narendra Modi government.

Uttam Kumar Reddy accused the Chief Minister of shedding crocodile tears back in Hyderabad and then in Delhi extending support to the farm laws that are detrimental to the interests of crores of farmers across the country.

“The TRS did not even think once about the plight of lakhs of farmers who have been protesting in Delhi braving the cold. Some of them had even lost their lives but Chandrashekar Rao is not ready to express his solidarity with the agitating farmers,” Reddy said, asking what more proof was needed to establish the alliance between the BJP and TRS.