Telangana under KCR’s dictatorship: Congress

​Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy on Saturday accused Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of transforming Telangana State into a dictatorship by smothering all democratic institutions.

Reacting to the merger of four defected MLCs of Congress into TRS, Narayana Reddy said that this shows how Chandrashekar Rao was misusing the legislature as his slave. “The Anti-Defection Law was not applied when as many as 25 MLAs and over two dozen MLCs defected to the TRS since 2014,” he added.

Neither the then Speaker Madhusudana Chary nor Council Chairman Swamy Goud reacted on the disqualification petitions filed against defected members by the Opposition parties. But they were quick to accept the merger petitions filed by the defected MLAs and MLCs. Both their inaction against defected members and action to finish presence of Opposition in the House were anti-democratic. They murdered democracy just to please K Chandrashekar Rao for the time being. But Madhusudan Chary and Swamy Goud will be remembered in the history as betrayers of Constitution, he said.

He said that Chandrashekar Rao wants to rule like a dictator and he has no respect for Legislature. “Though the results of Telangana Assembly elections were declared on December 11, K Chandrashekar Rao showed no seriousness in forming a cabinet or convening the Assembly session to at least facilitate the elected MLAs take oath of office and secrecy. Having spent most of the time at his farm house, the Chief Minister is now going for a three-day family tour to other States,” he said.

The Congress leader condemned the Chief Minister for targeting some IAS and IPS officers who tried to ensure fair elections in their jurisdictions. He said some officials who reportedly refused to indulge in poll irregularities were now being targeted and are likely to be transferred which purely amounts to political vendetta.

“The TRS has won the elections only due to EVM manipulation and other poll irregularities. Even KCR knows that people have voted for the Congress-led People's Front across Telangana State. With the help of Chief Electoral Officer Rajat Kumar and other poll and police officials, KCR was able to manipulate voting figures and declare himself victorious. As a criminal who tries to destroy all evidences of his crime, KCR is trying to target everyone who could expose his involvement in the biggest polling scandal of independent India,” he alleged.