Hyderabad: BJP national executive member Dr Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who is keeping distance from the party, on Wednesday launched ‘Bachao Telangana Mission’ to take on the TRS government’s “anti-people policies.” This is his second outfit; Dr Janardhan Reddy had launched the Telangana Nagara Samithi after quitting the TD in 2011.
“There is nothing positive in KCR’s 14-month rule. The government has miserably failed in fulfilling promises made to the people. This not the Telangana that the people wanted. From the second richest state, Telangana has turned poor,” he alleged.
Former Mahbubnagar legislator N. Srinivas Reddy and others joined the mission, which sought the support of all parties, indicating their imminent departure from the BJP and an open rift in the party.
State BJP president G. Kishan Reddy was quick to disown the new organisation. “We have not given permission. It is also wrong on part of Dr Janardhan Reddy to say that the BJP is not taking up public issues,” he told this newspaper.
Asked whether he would issue a show cause notice to the two BJP leaders, he said the party would take a decision soon. Dr Reddy, who opened a separate office in the city, said the mission would “ensure that KCR takes up the path of reconstruction but not destruction.”
Accusing Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao of “destroying the state” with lopsided policies, he demanded that the government drop the proposed manufacture and sale of cheap liquor.
“How can cheap liquor be good for the people when gudumba (illicit liquor) is harmful? Common sense says any liquor is harmful. The government should immediately drop such a stupid proposal,” he said.
He also criticised Mr Rao’s “tod-phod” (demolition) policies. “First he said he would demolish Secretariat, then the Chest Hospital, Ayurvedic Hospital, Mental Hospital and Osmania General Hospital. He did not construct two bedroom houses for the poor but plans a king-size Rs 100-crore building for himself. He talks about skyscrapers around Hussainsagar and making Hyderabad like Dallas etc. It’s not Dallas, it’s khallas (total loss),” he quipped.
Mr Rao was “not living in a monarchy or living in the Kasim Razvi or Nizam VIII regime,” he said. “He should think and take prudent decisions. Nowhere in the world has a head of government changed his convoy of cars thrice in one year as KCR did,” he said.
Dr Janardhan Reddy said no new industries had up come in state nor jobs created in the private sector. Mr Rao has ignored the students community he said and recalled the promises made to students of Osmania University.
