MAHBUBNAGAR: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao too addressed a public rally at Mahbubnagar on Tuesday where he attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I did not think
Narendra Modi is such a senseless person to lie that there is a problem of power supply in the state,” he said in Nizamabad. “I dare him to fly down to Nizamabad. I will also reach there. I am ready to debate with him and call his bluff.”
KCR said it was sad that Modi was resorting to spreading lies just because of the elections. “It is so disgraceful that someone of the stature of a PM spreads falsehoods,” he said.
KCR speaks In English to drive home power pointTelangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao said that when Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) national president Amit Shah had made irresponsible remarks, he had asked him to prove his claims or apologise unconditionally. He had also said he would quit if he substantiated the remarks made against the gover nment.
Throwing a challenge at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said in English, “Mr Narendra Modi, there is no power problem in Telangana. You can’t lie and level false allegations against the chief minister of the state. I am not scared of anyone and that is why I am responding in English so that Modi gets the message. Am I Chandrababu Naidu to be scared?”
Chandrasekhar Rao also said that Narendra Modi and Naidu had hatched a conspiracy to dethrone the TRS government in 2014 and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi had informed him about it. The TRS president said there was a need to increase Muslim reservation because Muslim population in Telangana after bifurcation was 12% when compared to the 6% in undivided Andhra Pradesh.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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