Tearing into TRS, Congress; Modi asks for a chance

​Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday unleashed a two-pronged attack on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Congress, while addressing an overwhelmingly-charged audience during his first election meetings in Telangana at Nizamabad and Mahbubnagar.

Mounting a blistering attack on KCR for the first time in the last four-and-a-half years, Modi has asked the TRS chief to go to London and take five years break as people of the State had enough of him and his party’s government.

Calling short of taking by name the prime minister continued his tirade against KCR and TRS referring him as ‘Mahasaya’ and ‘Mukhyamnatri’, he said: "The chief minister had promised to make Nizamabad a 'Nandana Vanam', a smart city and to model it like London.” However, contrary to what was promised, people in Nizamabad have been facing power and water problems, besides lack of proper roads. Also, people of the town know whether the city is being destroyed or improved in the name of constructing an underground drainage system, he added.

He said that the chief minister and TRS have a history of making promises about projects and leaving them incomplete. Even KCR's government has ended up incomplete by not completing five years term given to it by people, he said. However, the announcement of early elections has come as a sigh of relief for the people who were suffering under the TRS rule, he pointed out.

Advancing his attack, the BJP star campaigner said the TRS chief had come to ask for votes breaking his promise not to ask votes unless he provides Godavari river water through household tap connections. And remarked, "It is right time to bid adieu to a chief minister who failed even in giving water to his people." Highlighting the woes of the students of a local medical college, Modi said unlike the rich, the poor are dependent on the government hospitals. 

But, the health of hospitals in the State reflects what kind of hardships that poor people are going through in the State. To address this issue, Modi said that the Centre had launched Ayushman Bharat, to provide an annual health cover of Rs 5 lakh to the poor. “In the last four months, nearly three lakh people have availed treatment for the serious illness under the scheme. However, the State chief minister had refused to implement the same in Telangana depriving the benefits of the scheme to the poor people in the State,” he said.

He said that the Telangana has been created after a decade of struggle and sacrifices made by the young people and no government and no party has the right to let down the aspirations and hopes of the people. He asked people to demand an answer from the TRS what it had done during his tenure and teach a lesson to it for failing to deliver on its electoral promises made to young, SCs and Adivasis on the development of the State. “The CM and his family seem to be thinking that the Congress had ruled the country for five decades without delivering on its electoral promises. 

So, they too can win elections like Congress without doing anything. But, “Mukhyamantri Ji," Modi said "times have changed. Now, it is young India. Without delivering one cannot survive even for 25 months,” he said. Further, he said that KCR had earlier done his apprenticeship in TDP under Chandrababu Naidu and in Congress being a cabinet minister under the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi remote-controlled government. Terming TRS and Congress which are two sides of the same coin, he asked people to give an opportunity to BJP for the development and future of the State.