Revanth Reddy tears into TRS: ‘KTR promise to adopt Munugode is only to trick people!’

Revanth Reddy said Raj Gopal Reddy had sacrificed the Congress' interests at the BJP's altar as his only driving force was amassing wealth.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published Oct 14, 2022 | 8:14 PMUpdatedOct 14, 2022 | 8:15 PM

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy with the Congress' Munugode by-election candidate Palvai Sravanthi on Friday, 14 October, 2022. (Supplied)

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy on Friday, 14 October, laid into IT Minister KT Rama Rao for promising to adopt Munugode if the people elected the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate K Prabhakar Reddy in the upcoming by-election.

He was speaking at a huge gathering at Chandur in the Munugode constituency before Congress nominee Palvai Sravanthi filed her papers to contest the election.

Revanth Reddy, Sravanthi, MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy, CLP leader Batti Vikramarka, MLA Danasari Anasuya, and other leaders, arrived in the municipal town in a large procession.

The TPCC president, on KTR’s promise to adopt Munugode, told the people to ask themselves what development had come to Chinna Mulkanur, Mudu Chintalapalli, and Lakshmapur after Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao adopted them.

He said Munugode’s fate would be no different. KTR’s promise was only to beguile the people into voting for the TRS, he said.

Calling KCR, KTR, and T Hareesh Rao conmen of the first order, he recalled the time when he was contesting for the Assembly from Kodangal, and Rama Rao had come there and promised to adopt the constituency. Later, he did not even dig a basketful of earth for its development, he said.

He asked the voters to elect Sravanthi for the Assembly seat. “If you elect her, she will fight for your rights along with Seethakka, the legislator from Mulugu. Together, they would work like Sammakka and Sarakka (tribal deities).”

He wanted to know why both the BJP and the TRS were deploying their forces on such a large scale to defeat a woman who was seeking election to the Assembly. “I want to know if Rajagopal Reddy, if elected, will be able to get ₹5,000 crore for the Dindi Project,” he added.

Revanth Reddy said the by-election was not meant for the development of the constituency, as BJP candidate Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy was claiming. “The by-election is the result of one leader who sold himself to the BJP,” he said, in a frontal attack.

He alleged that Raj Gopal Reddy had sacrificed the interests of the Congress at the altar of the BJP by quitting the former and joining the latter because the only driving force for him was amassing wealth.

“He betrayed a party that loved him like a son,” he said.

He warned the people to be wary of the designs of the BJP and the TRS, as they were trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes to get their support by offering filthy lucre as an enticement.

Sravanthi said the Munugode battle was a fight between money power and people’s power.

She said Raj Gopal Reddy had betrayed the people — who had elected him as a Congress leader in 2018 — by joining the BJP midway.

“I am like your sister. Please elect me and help me complete the unfinished task of your leader and my father, late Palvai Govardhan Reddy,” she said.

CLP leader Batti Vikramarka said that it was time for people to realise how both the TRS and the BJP went back on their promises.

“They are now before you asking you to vote for them. Don’t walk into their trap,” he cautioned the public.