KCR made an impression on the audience as they kept cheering him lustily whenever he took swipes at the BJP in local idiom.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) addresses the people in a meeting in Munugode, which will witness a bypoll (Twitter/@trspartyonline)
In a pre-emptive blitzkrieg on the BJP a day ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s public meeting in the by-election bound Munugode Assembly constituency, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Saturday, 20 August, took the BJP-ruled Centre to task for its lopsided economic policies and for engaging in political conspiracies against states where Opposition parties are in power.
At a high-octane public meeting, preceded by spectacular optics of an endless cavalcade of cars following the bus in which the chief minister travelled to Munugode from Hyderabad, KCR sought to dispel any notion that the TRS is cracking up under the relentless pounding by the BJP.
He repeatedly asserted that the BJP should be driven out of the country and that he was deeply involved in this effort by roping in progressive forces.
“I have been holding talks with parties who share my concern. I discussed it with the Communist parties already. The BJP designs are sinister and they portend danger to the nation,” he said.
Slamming the BJP for trying to destabilise the states, he said: “The BJP leaders say that they would produce Eknath Shindes in Telangana as well as in other states where the Opposition is in power. Have they become power-drunk? Are they in their senses? In Telangana, the BJP hardly has three MLAs in the Assembly and they say that they would topple the government which has the support of 110 MLAs in a House of 119 members.”
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The chief minister spent a major part of his time dwelling on the dark plots of the Centre to rob the farmers of the support that the TRS government was extending to them. The BJP leaders want to see that free power supply is done away with by fixing meters to the farm wells, he alleged.
The chief minister focused on the inaction of the Centre in referring the state’s plea to a tribunal for deciding Telangana’s share in the Krishna waters. As Nalgonda is in the Krishna basin, unless the share is decided, the state cannot plan projects accordingly.
He dared Amit Shah whether he would be able to answer why the Centre was taking so long.
“Amit Shah should explain why the Centre had remained like a nincompoop unable to attend to this crucial issue,” he said, and pointed out: “The BJP is anti-farmer. It is determined to fix meters to agriculture pump sets. If you elect the BJP, your farm wells will have meters. Do you want BJP that fixes meters or the TRS which is opposed to it,” he asked the audience and evoked a positive response.
The venue of the TRS meeting in Munugode (Facebook/TRS Party)
“They had said that the Telangana government was splurging money on Rythu Bandhu. They do not want Rythu Bheema, or Aasara pensions. In short, they want farmers to bite the dust so that the entire agriculture sector could be handed over to the corporates which enjoy the most favoured sector status with the BJP. Finally, the farmers would become agriculture labourers in their lands,” KCR said.
KCR targeted the BJP accusing it of bringing about this by-election in Munugode by engineering a defection from the Congress.
“This by-election is not a simple affair. It is a struggle for your livelihood. The message that should go to Delhi from Munugode should be like a verdict against the BJP’s agenda of privatisation of public sector undertakings, doing away with freebies, and even going to the extent of restraining the state from purchasing power from power exchanges,” he said.
Meanwhile, the CPI, which has some presence in the constituency, announced that it would not field its candidate in the by-election as it had decided to support the TRS.
The CPI said it would work for the victory of the TRS candidate as defeating the BJP was very important for the party.
CPI state assistant secretary Palla Venkat Reddy, who spoke on the occasion, said the decision was taken to keep the BJP at bay as the saffron party, with its communal and anti-people agenda, had emerged as a major threat.
The crowd at the meeting in Munugode where Telangana CM KCR took on the BJP (Facebook/TRS Party)
The public meeting was organised on a huge scale though the by-election is yet to be notified and the Election Commission has time till February.
It is seen as an attempt to take the wind out of the sails of Amit Shah’s public meeting at the same place on Sunday. The public meeting was different from other such events in the recent past as KCR’s attack on the BJP was very pointed and clinical.
KCR did make an impression on the audience in Munugode as they kept cheering him lustily whenever he took swipes at the BJP in local idiom.
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