Hyderabad: BRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA Harish Rao on Wednesday accused the Congress government of making people suffer across Telangana during its two-year rule.
Addressing a press conference at the MLA camp office in Narsapur along with MLAs Sunitha Laxma Reddy and Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, Harish Rao said farmers, students, and the unemployed had faced severe neglect. He alleged that the Congress had focused more on illegal cases and arrests than on governance.
He contrasted this with BRS’s past record, recalling that former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had provided 24-hour free power to farmers and launched the Kalyanalakshmi scheme, even though it wasn’t in the party manifesto. He listed welfare achievements such as hiking pensions from ₹200 to ₹1,000, increasing ration rice from four to six kilograms, and reviving irrigation projects.
Harish Rao slammed the Congress for failing to spend even “a single rupee” on new canal work and wasting time with commissions, media leaks, and vendetta politics. He also pointed to eight check dams built by BRS on both the Haldi Vagu and Manjeera rivers, saying they transformed local agriculture.
Harish Rao defends Kaleshwaram, slams AP water diversion
Criticising CM Revanth Reddy for calling the Kaleshwaram project a “joke,” Rao said farmers in the Haldi and Manjeera catchment areas could vouch for the project’s benefits. He further alleged that the Congress government had diverted Godavari water to Andhra Pradesh’s Banakacharla project as political repayment.
He mocked Revanth Reddy for inaugurating flyovers built during the BRS regime and doing little else. Rao condemned the arrest of mid-day meal workers who protested over unpaid bills and called it “illegal and undemocratic.”
Congress accused of failure on all fronts
He also took aim at Congress MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, advising him to “come to his senses” and focus on his own party’s failures instead of attacking KCR.
Rao declared that the Congress had not fulfilled even one promise made to the public. Several BRS leaders, including Devender Reddy, Chandra Goud, Ashok Goud, Mansur, Venkatan Narsinga Rao, and Chandrasekhar, were present at the event.