Declaring that the BRS is ‘spitting venom’ on the people of Nalgonda, R&B Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy said that the people of Nalgonda will have to fight those who oppose the Musi clean-up project just as they fought the Razakars and Seemandhras.
Stating that the Congress government will appoint a Committee for Musi cleaning and will provide a place to BRS leaders in that committee, Venkat said that it is painful that KCR, who had read 70,000 books, did not know about the problems of the Musi.
KTR was educated in the US and he should know about the pollution in the Musi. Harish Rao is inciting people again, he said.
He said that the responsibility of the Congress government is to provide primary education and medicare to the people. The Kalvakuntla family, who thought that they could rule the state like the Nizam who ruled Telangana for seven generations, found that its dreams were shattered and so they are speaking against the Congress government, he said.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday at the Ministers’ Quarters, Venkat asked why BRS leaders KCR, KTR and Harish Rao are angry with the people of Nalgonda.
He said that the BRS leaders were speaking inhumanly and suggested that they should learn about Musi pollution from their former Officer on Special Duty (OSD).
Venkat said that the people of Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts were going through hell while the KCR family enjoyed life.
Lashing out at BRS leaders for branding Congress rule as bulldozer rule, Venkat said that Congress rule is people’s rule. He said the government will clean up the Musi River as well as beautify it.
“Nalgonda is the birthplace of people’s movements. The people of Nalgonda would fight against anti-Musi project forces as they fought against the Razakars and Seemandhras. I have been fighting Musi pollution for decades. Why are BRS leaders showing an inhuman attitude towards Nalgonda? We will pull up KCR on the Musi issue if he comes to the Assembly. KCR himself had set up a corporation for cleaning the Musi and made a Congress MLA who had joined the BRS then as its chairman, but the BRS is now opposing the project,” he said.
He said that he met Union Ministers and the Prime Minister on the Musi issue and had appealed for funds for the Musi clean-up project.
