BJP has no policy, only empty jumla tactics: TRS
HYDERABAD: The two-day national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party was disappointing, as it had highlighted nothing for the development of Telangana, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) said on Sunday.
“We expected that there will be a declaration or a policy document with regard to the country in general and Telangana in particular. But the BJP leadership has proved that it has no such policy, except empty talk and jumla tactics,” Telangana finance minister T Harish Rao, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s nephew, said in a statement.
Hitting out at the PM’S talk of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, the Telangana minister said the Narendra
Modi government had given nothing to Telangana, while granting several projects to Bjp-ruled states like Gujarat, UP and Karnataka. “He has not announced even a single project to Telangana,” he said.
On Modi’s claim that the Centre had purchased paddy worth ₹1 lakh crore from Telangana, Harish Rao said for the past one month, the Centre has not been purchasing 90 lakh tonnes of paddy worth ₹22,000 crore. “He has not made any mention of the
Mahila Reservation Bill pending in Parliament for years,” he pointed out.
Another TRS minister, G Jagadish Reddy, said there would be a “double-engine” government in the next elections, and it would be that of KCR in both the Centre and Telangana.
“The Centre has done nothing for Telangana and Modi has uttered lies,” he criticised.
Telangana Public Accounts Committee chairman and TRS lawmaker A Jeevan Reddy found fault with the BJP national leadership for harping on family based parties and dynastic politics.
“KCR is not a representative of dynastic politics. He has come to power by winning the hearts of the people. Even his son K T Rama Rao won as an MLA after struggling in the Telangana movement,” he said.