KTR takes to Twitter to hit back at Rahul’s ‘Telangana built not for one family’ comment
- Rahul Gandhi in a speech in Telangana questioned KCR on whether the state was formed only for the benefit of one family
- ‘Farmers have given their blood and sweat for creating Telangana. They did not do so for creating a graveyard’
- KTR immediate tweeted saying that Rahul saying about ‘family politics’ is a joke
FollowCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, asking him whether the state was formed only for the benefit of his family. KTR even before the speech could end, took to Twitter to put the Gandhi scion in place
Addressing a public meeting in Sangareddy district, Gandhi said while it was not possible to fulfil the dreams of Telangana people in three years, the state government had not made the "right beginning" and it was not going in the "right direction". The meeting was held a day prior to the Telangana State Formation Day, June 2.
Targeting the Chief Minister KCR and his minister-son K T Rama Rao, daughter and Lok Sabha member K Kavitha, and nephew and minister Harish Rao, without naming them, he asked if students and farmers fought for the creation of Telangana for a "single family".
"Has the state been created just for four people," Gandhi said, and alleged that the chief minister was not taking along with him students, youth, women and backward classes.
Only contractors and land mafia are benefiting. Reflecting on the role the UPA government played in the formation of Telangana, Rahul said it was done because the party understood the pain of Telangana people and their yearning for a bright future in their own state. However, the dreams of the people for a separate state are not being fulfilled now, alleged Gandhi.
The venue of the meeting had immense sentimental value for the Congress as it was at the same location where Indira Gandhi kicked off her election campaign in 1979-80 and went on to win back the prime minister’s post. Congress leaders who spoke ahead of Gandhi hoped that the public meeting would herald a change and repeat history to bring the party to power.
Gandhi charged the chief minister with "snatching" MPs, MLAs from the Congress and other elected representatives. "Do you want to waste your strength and future with the four member family? What kind of Telangana is being formed. Is it bangaru (golden) Telangana?" he asked.
The congress vice-president said 2,855 farmers have committed suicide in the three-year tenure of the TRS government, including 100 in the chief minister’s constituency. "Farmers have given their blood and sweat for creating Telangana. They did not do so for creating a graveyard," Gandhi said.
Now even before the meeting ended, KTR, IT and Industries Minister took to Twitter to point out some discrepancies in the Congress leader’s allegations “Some so called ‘national leaders’ of ‘national’ parties who can’t even win an election in their own backyard, make tall claims elsewhere,” KTR tweeted in response to the Congress aiming to come to power in Telangana.
He further tweeted as the leader made his speech and asked him to do some fact-checking as well.
