PM Narendra Modi guns for KCR, lashes out at Telangana CM’s ‘family rule’

MAHBUBNAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao

for promoting corrupt dynastic politics and family rule during his first rally in Telangana after the announcement of

Lok Sabha polls

.


Hitting out at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief for his belief in astrology and fostering family rule, Modi said the present elections were between a ‘chowkidar’ on one side and a dynastic and corrupt rule on the other.

“Astrologers seem to have advised him to go for early elections. If the elections were held nine months later, in April or May 2019, KCR was told by astrologers that the TRS would lose both assembly and Lok Sabha polls,” Modi said at a public meeting at Bhuthpur village in Mahbubnagar district.

Stressing how public money could have been saved by holding the polls together, Modi asked: “Will it be the people of Telangana or astrologers?” He said that KCR went for advanced polls but took his time in forming ministry, paralysing the administration for two to three months.

The PM said the people of Mahbubnagar strengthened the political career of KCR and his family, but they did not get anything in return. “He became MP. Later, when Telangana was announced, he became chief minister. His entire family, son, daughter and other family members also benefited, but the people of Mahbubnagar did not derive any benefit during the time KCR represented them in the Lok Sabha between 2009-2014,” he said.
‘TRS govt hijacked Central schemes’

He criticised KCR for his association with AIMIM, saying the CM was resorting to appeasement politics. “The TRS-MIM alliance is not for the benefit of the people. He is moving closely with people who insulted the country and prefers to give reservations on the basis of religion,” Modi said. He claimed that earlier governments at the Centre used to create rifts between castes and religions, but NDA government introduced 10% EBC reservations. Many central schemes, he claimed, were diverted by the TRS government and labelled as state programmes.