KCR AFRAID OF FACING MODI, SAYS SHAH
BJP president resumes election campaign in Telangana, hits out against KCR, Owaisi
Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah said that the Mahakutami — an alliance of the Congress party, the Telugu Desam, the TJS and Communist Party of India — can never be an alternative to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
“The BJP alone will be an alternative to the TRS in Telangana,” he said.
Sounding the poll bugle at Karimnagar on Wednesday, Mr Shah said that chief minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao was afraid of facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the elections and that is why he has advanced the Assembly polls.
Development of Telangana is only possible through the ‘ Make in India’ programme of Mr Modi; Congress and others were indulging in ‘ Break India’ programme, he said. The Congress under Rahul Gandhi has not won an election since 2014, he said, and added that the party can only be seen through a microscope. Addressing a wellattended gathering at Ambedkar Grounds in Karimanagar on Wednesday, Mr Shah said that Mr Rao advanced elections because he knew that he would be swept away by the popular support for Mr Modi.
KCR family and Rahul Baba are into break in India while ( Narendra) Modiji pursues the policy of make in India. — Amit Shah, BJP president
Karimnagar, Oct. 10: Pitching for a change of government in electionbound Telangana, BJP president Amit Shah said Wednesday neither the ruling TRS nor the main opposition Congress can give a push to development in the state. He also asserted that if voted to power after the Lok Sabha polls next year, the government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ensure “not a single infiltrator” was left in the country.
“Telangana’s development is not possible either under KCR ( caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao) family or ( Congress chief) Rahul Baba. They are into break in India while ( Narendra) Modiji pursues the policy of make in India,” Shah told a public rally in Karimnagar.
The BJP is testing the electoral waters of Telangana alone for the first time after playing a second fiddle to the TDP, which broke away from the NDA recently, for several years. The BJP president said the Congress, with is support base shrinking drastically, was incapable of becoming an alternative to the
TRS.
“Is Congress an alternative to the TRS? The Congress under Rahul Gandhi’s leadership has not been able to win state elections. Today, if you want to see the Congress, you will have to use magnifying glasses,” Mr Shah said, ridiculing Gandhi over a string of electoral reverses since the BJP assumed power at the Centre.
The TRS, Shah said, had failed to keep promises it made to the people of Telangana. “KCR made 150 promises before the 2014 assembly polls but fulfilled not one. He promised he will make a dalit the chief minister, but did not honour it. Dalit of Telangana is not on his list. His son ( minister K T Ramarao) or daughter ( MP K Kavitha) will be made the chief minister,” he said.
Targeting BJP's bitter critic and Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi of the AIMIM, Shah said it was the saffron party alone that could fight people like him and not the TRS, TDP or the Congress.
Shah also criticised TRS chief Rao for not celebrating September 17, the day the erstwhile Nizam’s state merged with the Indian Union, as “Hyderabad Liberation Day”.
“Due to fear of Owaisi and for Muslim vote bank Chandrasekhar Rao stopped celebrating Hyderabad Liberation Day,” the BJP president said.