Modi-KCR plot to throttle democracy in State: Uttam

​Hyderabad: Stating that it was the Congress party which included Hyderabad into India, TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao does not like to celebrate the ‘Hyderabad Merger Day’. Addressing the Hyderabad Merger Day celebrations after hoisting the national flag at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that it was the Congress Party which fought for country's independence and merged Hyderabad State into Indian Union. Again, it was the Congress party which granted statehood for Telangana, he added.

The TPCC chief said after India got independence on August 15, 1947, the then Prime Minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel merged Hyderabad into Indian Union after Police Action. He said the last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan was in favour of merging Hyderabad with Pakistan and he had unleashed a reign of terror on common people through Razakars of Qasim Razvi. 

But the then Congress Government initiated Police Action and Hyderabad was finally merged with Indian Union on 17th September, 1948. He also slammed KCR for going back on his promise of celebrating Hyderabad Liberation Day at official level after coming to power.

He alleged that both BJP government at the Centre and TRS government in Telangana were trying to throttle democracy in the State. He said deletion of 20-30 lakh names from the electoral rolls was not incidental, but a deliberate move as part of a larger conspiracy. He alleged that Modi-KCR duo also tried to connive with Election Commission of India to implement their conspiracy. However, he said that the Congress party would not allow this conspiracy to work and would fight until each and every eligible citizen gets enrolled in the voters' list. 

He demanded that elections for Telangana Assembly be held only after carrying out all corrections in the electoral rolls. He predicted that the next government in Telangana would be of Congress party. The TPCC chief took exception to the arrests and harassment of leaders of public organisations like Prof. Haragopal, Prof. Kodandaram, Varavara Rao and others.

The TPCC chief said that after coming to power, the Congress government would merge the TSRTC into the government as all its employees would get salaries, perks and other benefits on par with State government staff. Later, the TPCC chief visited Chanchalguda jail to meet Congress leader T Jayaprakash Reddy.