KCR roars Jai Bharat from Kompally Tremors in Delhi

​Hyderabad: The message that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao sent out from the venue of TRS plenary here on Friday was loud, clear and brief: Before long, he will trigger political tremors at Delhi from Hyderabad.

The day-long plenary, which symbolised the party's 17th foundation day, focused mostly on KCR's national ambition of crafting a coalition of compatible parties to serve as a federal front against the BJP and the Congress. Though doubts have been expressed over how a front which does not have Congress in the lead be able to emerge as an effective alternative to the BJP, KCR was emphatic that the formation he was contemplating would usher in a qualitative change at the national level, pushing out the Congress and the BJP.

"I was surprised when Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that I was an agent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. How can this be? The BJP leaders say the front has not even got a tent. If there is no tent, why are you afraid? You are afraid of me since you know that once I take a decision, no one could make me change it," he said and pointed out that the front would work for providing irrigation facility to parched lands in the state.

Outlining the priority of the federal front, KCR stressed that it was agriculture sector that need to be given a hand-holding. "When the federal front comes to power at the Centre, it would provide irrigation facility for 40 crore acres across the nation. This should have been done long ago by the successive governments, but it had never been done," he said.

He hit out at the continuation of concurrent list which was nothing but the Centre retaining hold on the states. "Why do you want to have a control over the states?" he asked, implying that he wants rewriting of the constitution itself so that the Centre does not have to bother about subjects like health, roads, agriculture, education and so on. 

"What does Prime Minister have to do with laying of roads in villages? Isn't there a sarpanch or MPTC, or ZPTC or Zilla Parishad, or the state government to do it," he asked. The plenary, held at Kompally on the outskirts of Hyderabad, remained the centre of attraction for not only the state but also the Centre as KCR shared his thoughts about the kind of India that he was visualising.

The plenary organised in an area of 15 acres at GBR Gardens and attended by over 15,000 delegates from all the 119 Assembly segments, set the stage for the next elections as KCR in his opening and closing remarks sought to project TRS as a well-oiled machine ready to take on the Congress at the state level and rally non-BJP and non-Congress parties at the national level for achieving a nation which has states with vast powers and Centre's role limited to few subjects.

KCR, reeling off farmer and people-friendly initiatives that the state had initiated over the last four years, said that Telangana today was different from Telangana before 2014 when it was subject to neglect. He recalled how 24-hour power supply to the farm sector had brought smiles on the faces of the farmers and how the Rythu Bandhu which would be rolled out on May 10 would go a long way in giving a new lease of life to the agrarian sector. 

Under this scheme, the government proposes to pay farmers Rs 4,000 per acre for kharif and Rs 4,000 per acre for rabi to the farmer to help him purchase agriculture inputs and be out of vice-like grip of usury. He also touched upon Kaleswaram and how it was developing into a major irrigation project having a potential of turning Telangana into a land of green fields. "My ambition is to provide irrigation to 1 crore acres in the next two years. When I fly over Telangana, I should be able to green fields and nothing else," he said.

Not one to miss out on taking a jibe at the Congress, he recalled Telangana Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy saying that the CM's official residence Pragati Bhavan has 150 rooms and asked him if he could show even one room more than 15. He asked whether he was ready to rub his nose against the ground in front of Pragati Bhavan, if he cannot.