‘People’s Front’ coming to power: Rahul
kosgi/khammam — Jointly campaigning with foe-turnedfriend TDP leader and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Telangana, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asserted the ‘People’s Front’ will not just come to power in the southern state but will also defeat the Modi-led BJP in 2019.
Sharing the dais With Naidu at their first public meeting at Khammam, Gandhi called the state’s ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) the “B-team” of Prime Minister Modi and flayed the K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)-led government for farmers’ distress and rising unemployment in Telangana.
Simultaneously attacking Modi and KCR, Gandhi alleged that both the BJP government at Centre and TRS government in the state were insensitive to the plight
Rahul Gandhi with Chandrababu Naidu during an election campaign for Telangana assembly elections in Khammam. —
of farmers and workers. He promised to waive farm loans and providing minimum support price for 17 crops if the Congress was voted to power in the state.
“This fight is not just for Telangana but for the future of India. In Delhi Modi is busy destroying democratic institutions one after the other — be it the Supreme Court, or the Election Commission and the Reserve Bank of India. “While in Telangana on one side is KCR and his family and on the other are the masses — farmers, workers, women and the youth.
“First the Grand Alliance will defeat Modi’s B team TRS in Telangana and then in Delhi we will defeat the A team, the BJP,” said Gandhi. —