Hyderabad: In a scathing attack on Priyanka Gandhi, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao called the Congress general secretary a “political tourist” and alleged that his party was a “sinking ship” that needed to learn from the “inclusive policies” of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi. State.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KTR was referring to Priyanka Gandhi’s visit to Saroornagar in Hyderabad to address a public meeting on youth issues titled ‘Yuva Sangharsh Sabha’ on Monday. KTR said, “Hyderabad is a global city that welcomes lakhs of tourists every day and it also welcomes political tourists like Priyanka Gandhi.”
The BRS leader took a jibe at the Congress and said that parties which did not work for the welfare of the people when in power were now “preaching to state governments like Telangana which consistently rank high in performance”.
In an indirect dig at the Congress leader, KTR said that leaders who are ‘unemployed’ are ‘instigating the youth of Telangana’. KTR alleged that the Congress exploited the youth and the unemployment issue “only for its politics”.
He said, “If the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had announced an employment policy and acted like the BRS, there would have been no unemployment crisis in the country.” The BRS leader said, “The Telangana government under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao provided employment to 2.2 lakh youth in the government and 22 lakh youth in the private sector.”
KTR suggested Priyanka to learn from Telangana’s inclusive and holistic development activities and policies and implement them in Congress-ruled states. Stepping up his attacks, he demanded an apology from Priyanka Gandhi on behalf of the Congress party for allegedly “taking lives of hundreds of Telangana youth by delaying the formation of the state for their political gains during the separate Telangana movement”. Did.
KTR termed the Congress party as a “sinking ship” and suggested that Priyanka Gandhi convert her “political tour” into an “educational tour”.
The minister also highlighted “failures” during Congress rule on basic necessities such as drinking and irrigation water, electricity and support for agriculture, and said development in Telangana has been “quite the opposite” of Congress-ruled states.
“Unlike the Congress rule, the BRS-led Telangana government provided 24*7 electricity, Rythu Bandhu, Asia Pension for the needy, Mission Bhagiratha etc. The state and political tourist Priyanka Gandhi will get a feel for this in the tour,” KTR said. .