Minorities not vote bank for KCR: KTR

​Hyderabad: Caretaker IT Minister K T Rama Rao on Friday said that while all the parties including the Congress have seen Muslim minorities as vote machines, caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has seen them as human beings.

The Minister was addressing a gathering of minority leaders, who joined the TRS from the Congress led by Former Minorities Commission Chairman Abid Rasool Khan and AICC minority coordinator Khaleequr Rehman at Telangana Bhavan on Friday. Rama Rao said that Chandrashekar Rao is a secular leader and has never seen the minorities as vote machines. 

He said, “KCR is such a person who believes that Hindus and Muslims are same and has opinion that if they do not go together the State will not progress. Some leaders are stating that the TRS will go with the BJP. I am assuring you... the TRS will not go with the BJP or with Narendra Modi,” Rama Rao said.

Rama Rao alleged that both the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party are spreading rumours about the TRS joining hands with the BJP and added that joining of Muslim minorities is a clear-cut answer to the Mahakutami leaders. He said the aim of the Chief Minister was to increase income and distribute it to the poor. He expressed confidence that TRS will win over 100 seats and 16 out of 17 seats. 

Caretaker Deputy Chief Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali said that Chandrashekar Rao was the top secular leader in the country and the TRS was the most secular party among the other parties. He said that the TRS would win more seats than it had won in GHMC elections. 

Ali said that during the last four years, the TRS government spent Rs 634 crore on minorities compared to Rs 50 lakh by the Congress government during 2011 to 2013. He said that Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao has taken up many development and welfare works for minorities which even a Muslim Chief Minister would not have done.