Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Greater Hyderabad Munic...
Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, saying it only knew how to make false promises and incite violence, the Hindustan Times reported.
Voting will take place in 150 municipal constituencies, or wards, of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Tuesday. The results will be announced on Friday. The saffron party has led an aggressive campaign for the civic body polls to make inroads in wards with a significant Hindu population. There is a triangular contest between the BJP, the TRS, and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, or AIMIM.
Addressing rallies on the final day of campaigning at Goshamahal, Sanath Nagar and Secunderabad constituencies, Rao asked what the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance had done for the city in the last six years.
“Who brought the prestigious Apple, Amazon, and other major IT companies to Hyderabad,” he asked. “It is the BJP government which cancelled the ITIR [Investment Technology Investment Region] project sanctioned by the UPA government for Hyderabad and acted against the hopes of youth in Telangana. BJP knows only two things, first is jumla [make false promises] and second is hamla [violence].”
Rao, who is the son of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar...
