Kishan Reddy takes potshots at KCR

​Hyderabad: Former BJP MLA G Kishan Reddy lashed at caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for calling BJP a communal party, terming, “he (KCR) is trying to garner Muslim votes, shooting from the shoulders of the BJP.” However, K Chandrashekar Rao would not succeed in his political designs, he added.

Taking exception to KCR terming that since TRS is a secular party, it would not enter into an electoral alliance with BJP was obnoxious. Because, while calling BJP communal, the caretaker Chief Minister had announced that All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) was its friendly party and natural alley. It was to appease the AIMIM that K Chandrashekar Rao had proposed 12 per cent religious based reservations for Muslims. 

Secondly, On the one hand, KCR doling out gifts like allotment of land to the AIMIM chief’s private institution, On the other, only two Muslim candidates appeared in the list of 105 candidates contested announced by the TRS party for the ensuing elections. “Even in the places where the Muslim population was around 80 per cent, K Chandrashekar Rao could not find any candidates from that community. This shows the real face of the TRS secularism,” he said.

Terming religious based reservations are unconstitutional, and they could never be implemented in a secular country, Kishan Reddy said, “The political designs of the TRS were only to please AIMIM and to garner and use Muslims for its vote bank politics. But, BJP was opposed to such communal politics,” he said. 

Terming BJP need no lessons from KCR on secularism, Kishan Reddy, agreeing to KCR’s remarks that BJP is a “Garib Party”, said, BJP is only poor Vis a Vis TRS in terms of being a wealthy party. But, his party is also a “Garibolla Party” (Poor Men Party) in the country, which has people’s support.

Dismissing the Congress campaign of TRS and BJP entering into a secret understanding, Kishan Reddy said, it was TRS and Congress which had earlier went to polls and shared power, but, not the BJP, he reminded.  He said that people in the State are not in a position to believe in a series of promises being made by the Congress after seeing KCR failed to deliver on his electoral promises like double bedroom houses and the like. He also appealed to people to defeat the MLAs who were elected on Congress and TDP tickets in 2014 general elections but defected to TRS, defeating and making a mockery of their mandate and anti-defection laws.