A vote for ‘chote bhai’ will help ‘bade bhai’, says KCR
“Think why you should vote for BJP and Congress, as support to the two parties will only harm Telangana’s interests,” BRS president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said in Mahabubnagar district on Friday.
Participating in a roadshow in the district in support of BRS candidate and sitting MP Manne Srinivas Reddy on Friday night, he said that the BJP did nothing for Telangana in the last 10 years and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogans were mere statements.
He pointed out that Mr. Modi had unilaterally transferred seven mandals geographically and the 460 MW Lower Sileru hydel project, where power generation was possible throughout the year, from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh, immediately after the State formation.
As the Chief Minister, he (KCR) had written many letter to the Centre and the Prime Minister seeking national project status to Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme but there was no response and the BJP candidate who was holding the party’s national vice-president’s post for over ve years did not even make an attempt to raise the matter with the Centre.
Further, he alleged that the Centre had asked the BRS Government in the past to install meters to agricultural pump sets linking it to ₹5,000 crore a year borrowing limit, but he had put his foot down and said no to protect the interests of farmers.
Mr. Rao said, “Vote to chote bhai (Revanth Reddy) will help bade bhai (Narendra Modi) and vice versa” to a huge applause.
Giving another example of Congress-BJP nexus, he said together they had displaced a BRS leader from the municipal chairman’s post in Mahabubnagar.