PNS|Nalgonda
BRS Working President KT Rama Rao launched a sharp offensive against the Congress Government on Wednesday, accusing it of reducing governance to a commission racket while attempting to deflect attention from its failures by targeting former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with politically driven inquiries.
Addressing the media at Nalgonda, KTR said the Congress government is using notices in the Kaleshwaram Project case as a “smokescreen” to cover up its own corruption.
“This government doesn’t know how to govern, doesn’t have the courage to fulfil its fake promises, and is now staging dramas by issuing notices to KCR,” he said.
He claimed that commissions of 20 to 30 per cent have become standard under Congress rule. “Even their own MLAs and ministers are saying that no work is done without commissions. The recent dharna by contractors at the Deputy Chief Minister’s office exposed it all,” KTR stated.
He accused both the BJP and the Congress of colluding to politicise the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project.
“They want to brand it a failure to hide their own disasters. The notice to KCR is not a legal step, it’s a political stunt. We have full faith in the judiciary. These notices will fly like cotton in the wind,” he said.
KTR reminded that Kaleshwaram was a transformative project that brought water to barren lands and was conceived with a long-term vision by KCR. “Those who brought light to this state’s fields will be protected by the people and by God,” he said.
He listed a series of infrastructure failures under Congress rule. “The Sunkishala retaining wall collapsed. The Vattem pump house was submerged. The Pedda Vagu project was damaged twice. What inquiry has been held? Nothing. The SLBC tunnel collapse took innocent lives, and even after three months, they haven’t recovered the bodies,” KTR said, adding caustically, “If this government had any ability, they would bring people back from Mars, but they can’t even bring back victims from a tunnel.”
He accused the Congress of hiding behind commissions and committees to escape the pressure of fulfilling its six poll guarantees. “We are raising our voice on behalf of 1.68 crore women waiting for the Rs 2,500 monthly aid, for every parent awaiting the promised tola of gold and for every senior citizen expecting a pension of Rs 4,000,” he said.
He warned that the BRS would not stop until every election promise made by Congress is delivered.
