Kharge, Sidhu bristle at TRS rule

​Hyderabad: Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge and Punjab minister Navjoth Singh Sidhu on Friday criticised that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao failed to keep the promises he has made to people of Telangana.

Addressing media conferences, separately, they said that the TRS has been belittling UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi who has ensured statehood to Telangana region. Kharge said that Telangana state has been formed with the sacrifices of many. Sonia Gandhi has strived in this direction keeping the aspirations of people of Telangana in mind. He said that the TRS leaders have been criticising her and AICC president Rahul Gandhi.

He wanted to know how Sonia looked like good personality when family of Chandrashekhar Rao and his family met her and now how she has become a villain in their eyes.

He said that TRS and MIM have been supporting the BJP government at the Centre. He said that the Chief Minister failed to give three acres of land to Dalits as promised. In his address to the media, Sidhu said that TRS and BJP have been working in the same way. He said that 75 per cent of the people of Telangana have been earning just Rs 141 per day. The wealth of minister KT Rama Rao rose by 400 per cent in the past four and half years.

Ridiculing the Chief Minister for neglecting the administration, he said that even his car driver would not accept it. “As a joke, KCR asked his driver that he would drive the car. The driver said that driving the car was not easy as handling administration like in Telangana. The car would not run with the help of God,” Sidhu said.
He said that while Punjab has accumulated a debt of Rs 2.10 lakh crores in 70 years, Telangana has borrowed Rs 2.20 lakh crores in past four and half years. Only family members of Chandrashekhar Rao were benefitted with it.

He described TRS rule as Alibaba and 4 ‘chor’. He criticised that the democracy in Telangana has become like ‘By the People… for 4 People’. He said that people would not accept arrogant rulers. Sidhu alleged that Chandrashekhar Rao has backstabbed Sonia Gandhi. He has taken U turn on several promises, Sidhu said. He said that only Kavitha has been considered as woman in the state as there was no woman in the cabinet, and no woman commission.

He said that during the regime of Narendra Modi, the non performing assets of the public sector banks have reached Rs 17 lakhs crores. Thousands of crores of loans of Adani, Ambani and others were written off. He said that debt of Rs 15,000 crores of Anil Ambani was rescheduled during the NDA rule. The NDA has also given incentives worth Rs 2 lakh crores to the industrialists. He said that most of the companies which have benefitted belong to Gujarat. Sidhu likened the Kaleswaram project with Rafale deal and said that it was KCR’s Rafale. He said that Chandrashekhar Rao has raised the cost of the project from Rs 40,000 crores to Rs 90,000 crores.

He said that as much as $ 48,000 million has been stashed in the Swiss banks and the Centre did not reveal the names of those who deposited them. As many as 1,400 persons of India have accounts in Swiss banks. He said that the black money was in the form of Dollars, Euros, Gold and Silver. He said during the period of demonetisation many banks having BJP ministers and BJP president Amit Shah as directors have received hundreds of crores rupees as deposits.

Defending his tour to Pakistan, he said that he does not know the persons who have taken photos with him and one of the Khalistan militants might have taken photo. Referring to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on contesting in that country, Sidhu said that the Pakistan PM means that he (Sidhu) was quite popular in that country. When asked about the appreciation of TRS government in the past, he said that he has quoted the Government of India’s comments. He said that Andhra Pradesh was much better in sand mining.