Congress govt. coercing BRS leaders to join ruling party using false cases: Harish

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has said that the Congress government is sparing all its energies in harassing the main Opposition party instead of serving people for which it has been voted to power.

Speaking to mediapersons at Patancheru along with MLAs G. Mahipal Reddy (Patancheru), K. Prabhakar Reddy (Dubbak), Ch. Prabhakar (Sangareddy) and K. Manik Rao (Zaheerabad), former Minister and Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao alleged that the ruling party was using all tactics to harass the BRS leaders, including foisting cases with the singlepoint agenda of forcing them to quit BRS and join Congress.

The Congress government was registering false cases left, right and centre against the BRS leaders to make them fall in line and join the Congress, Mr. Harish Rao said, condemning the arrest of Mr. Mahipal Reddy’s brother G. Madhusudan Reddy around 3 a.m. on Friday on charges of illegal mining on government land.

He questioned the need to arrest Mr. Reddy by sending 300 police personnel to his residence and without even sharing the FIR copy.

Mr. Harish Rao stated that arrest was made on the directions of the Minister from the district, although several local Congress leaders also had stone crushers, many of them running without any permission or lease. Such tactics was nothing but forcing the BRS leaders to join Congress at gunpoint, he alleged.

100 days of Cong. rule

Later, addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, the senior BRS leader alleged that the Congress had failed to keep the election promises.

The 100 days of Congress rule was marked by inquiries, harassment and arrests belying the word given to the people that the first file to be signed would be on farm loan waiver and passing legislation on the guarantees in the first session of Assembly itself.

The only achievement of Mr. Revanth Reddy in 100 days was his 10 visits to New Delhi, mortgaging the selfesteem of Telangana, he said.