PNS|Hyderabad
BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) launched a broadside against Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, calling him “the most incompetent Chief Minister in India” and accusing him of pushing Telangana into chaos.
Addressing a press conference at the Telangana Bhavan on Tuesday, KTR questioned the source of Revanth’s family wealth, slammed him for insulting state government employees, and held him responsible for Telangana’s deteriorating economic health.
Targeting the Chief Minister’s remarks on state employees, KTR said Revanth had insulted the very people who played a pivotal role in the Telangana movement.
“Calling them villains and humiliating them is shameful. These are the same employees who sacrificed careers and livelihoods to build Telangana,” KTR said, warning that such comments amounted to betrayal of the Telangana spirit.
Highlighting the contrasting approach of the BRS government, KTR reminded that under KCR’s leadership, employees were given a generous 73 per cent fitment, while the Congress government had failed to clear even pending Dearness Allowances and retirement benefits.
He said employees were only demanding promises made in the Congress manifesto. “Is that wrong? When people ask for what was assured, you label them selfish?” he asked, terming it “intellectual bankruptcy.”
On the state’s economic condition, KTR was unsparing. He rubbished Revanth’s claims of Telangana’s bankruptcy, accusing him of running down the state to hide his administrative failures.
“Never in India’s history has a Chief Minister cursed his own state like this. Telangana was number one in per capita income growth during BRS rule. Within 17 months of Congress rule, it is slipping into uncertainty,” he warned.
He accused the Congress Government of peddling lies about the state’s debt, first claiming the BRS left a debt of Rs 6 lakh crore and later revising it to Rs 8.5 lakh crore.
“Is this a government or a circus?” KTR asked, reminding that Central data places Telangana at the 28th position in debt among states.
Questioning priorities, he pointed out how funds were available for beauty contests but not for salaries.
“Revanth’s government spent Rs 200 crore on pageants, but cannot release salaries to its staff,” he lashed out, adding that under the BRS, Telangana never ‘faced’ power cuts or drinking water issues. He said that the Congress government’s ‘mismanagement’ was erasing BRS’s decade-long ‘progress.’
Taking the gloves off, KTR directly called Revanth a “thief.” He said that while Telangana’s revenues were declining, the Chief Minister’s relatives were amassing huge wealth, including land and a pharmaceutical company.
Referring to Revanth’s cash-for-vote episode, KTR asked, “A man caught with bundles of cash… what else do you call him but a thief?”
KTR did not stop there. He listed BRS’s achievements — Kaleshwaram, Palamuru-Rangareddy, uninterrupted 24-hour power, Rythu Bandhu, medical colleges, gurukuls, and Hyderabad’s infrastructure — to draw a contrast between what he called “golden Telangana under KCR” and “chaos under Congress.”
