Revanth is ‘BJP at heart’: KTR

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has never truly been a Congress leader and is ‘essentially a BJP man wearing a Congress mask’.

Addressing an election campaign meeting in Banswada, Mr. Rama Rao said the CM was ‘Bade Bhai’s younger brother’, implying his ideological proximity to the BJP and PM Narendra Modi, whom the CM calls ‘Bade Bhai’. He urged minorities and all those who oppose communal politics to ‘remove the BJP mask worn by the CM and recognise the BJP leader hidden inside him’.

Mr. Rama Rao criticised the Congress argument that voters should support it in municipal elections merely because it is in power, calling the claim ‘meaningless’. He challenged Congress leaders to explain what they had achieved during the last two years in office.

Promising a return of BRS to power, Mr. Rama Rao said that once his party comes back, towns would be developed far better than under the Congress government, just as they were during the BRS regime. He accused the Congress of deceiving minorities and Backward Classes by promising large budget allocations but failing to deliver.

Referring to Congress’s poll promises, Mr. Rama Rao said only those who had actually benefited from schemes such as a ₹4,000 pension, ₹2,500 assistance to women, education assurance cards, Rythu Bharosa, Kalyana Lakshmi and tola gold should vote for the Congress.

Mr. Rama Rao also questioned why senior leader Pocharam Srinivas Reddy joined the Congress despite what he described as the party’s failure to fulfil its promises. During the campaign, he played audio and video clips from the previous Assembly elections in which Mr. Revanth Reddy allegedly made derogatory remarks against Mr. Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and his sons.