NEW DELHI: As soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi spilt the beans that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wanted to join the NDA, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday sought to take political gains for his party and said that BRS means BJP Rishtedaar Samiti.
The Congress leader’s statement came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his rally in the poll-bound Telangana said that he had rejected a request of state Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to join the NDA, after the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in 2020, citing his “deeds”.
Taking to the social media platform, X, the Congress leader said that today PM Modi publicly accepted that BRS means BJP Rishtedaar Samiti.
“Today Modi ji openly accepted what I had said – BRS means BJP Rishtedaar Samiti. The BJP-BRS partnership has destroyed Telangana in the last ten years. People are intelligent and have understood their game – this time they will reject both of them and form a Congress government with six guarantees,” the Wayanad MP posted on X.
Earlier in the day, PM Modi said that the BRS supremo KCR wanted to join NDA to seek BJP’s support after the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections but he refused the offer due to “deeds” of the ruling dispensation.
“When BJP won 48 seats in the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election, KCR needed support. Before this election, he used to welcome me at the airport, but later suddenly he stopped doing so,” the Prime Minister said.
“KCR came to meet me in Delhi…he started telling me that the country is progressing under your leadership, and said that he wanted to join NDA. He also asked me to extend support to him. I told him (KCR) that due to his deeds Modi cannot associate with him,” he added.
The Prime Minister said the BJP cannot deceive the people of Telangana. NDA is led by the BJP.
“I refused (him) entry to NDA,” PM Modi said.
He said that the 48 seats won by the BJP in the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in December 2020 are “start of the process to change the fate of Telangana”.
The Prime Minister said that K Chandrashekar Rao again approached him and told him that he is going to hand over all “karobar” to his son KT Rama Rao (KTR) and “sought my blessings”.
The Prime Minister said he told KCR that it is a democracy and his successor will be decided by the people of Telangana.
“Are you a king who will decide?” the Prime Minister asked.
Referring to KCR not coming to his functions, PM Modi said that the “corrupt” cannot sit in his company and “are running (away)”.
PM Modi said if BJP comes to power, it will “expose corruption” of the BRS government.
Telangana is among five states that will go for polls later this year. (ANI)