Practise what you preach, KTR tells Cong. and Rahul

BRS working president and former Minister K.T. Rama Rao has asked Congress party and its former president Rahul Gandhi to prove their commitment and sincerity to the manifesto released on Friday by making two BRS MLAs who defected to the Congress either resign or get them disqualified by the Speaker.

Taking to a social media platform to hit out at the Congress on Saturday, he said it was the Congress party that had sown the seeds of defections in the country. “Congress, which is the mother ship that promoted the ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ culture of political defections in India, seems to have had a big change of heart,” he said welcoming the national party’s proposal to amend the 10th Schedule (of the Constitution) to ensure automatic disqualification of MLAs/MPs if they defect.

But, as always, Congress preaches something and does the exact opposite in practice! They have recently announced an MP ticket to one of the BRS MLAs who defected and also admitted another BRS MLA, he said, adding that both of them are still hanging on to their elected posts as MLAs won on BRS tickets.

“Why don’t you demonstrate that you are not a party of hypocrites? Make both these defectors (MLAs) resign or have the Speaker disqualify and prove to the country that you practice what you preach”, Mr. Rao suggested Mr. Gandhi. Or else, Mr. Gandhi would remain a hypocrite, he said.

Social media

Mr. Rao tagged a copy of the Congress manifesto in which it is mentioned that “we promise to amend the 10th Schedule and make defection (leaving the original party on which the MLA or MP was elected) an automatic disqualification of the membership in the Assembly or Parliament”. He also tagged the pictures of BRS MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari joining the Congress to his social media post.