NRR Accuses Revanth of Blaming Centre

HYDERABAD: BJP state president N. Ramchander Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was shifting responsibility onto the Centre and Union ministers for projects that fall under the state’s purview, citing the Hyderabad Metro Rail expansion and shared contributions for MMTS services. “It has become a habit of this government to pin on the Centre tasks that the state should perform,” he said.

At the party’s state office bearers meeting on Tuesday, chaired by party president Nitin Nabin, Rao said the BJP was not opposed to cleaning the Musi river but criticised large‑scale projects such as the proposed Gandhi Sarovar, warning that spending “lakhs of crore” and displacing thousands was unacceptable.

He accused the Congress of beginning its tenure with demolitions and said the people would remove from power, through democratic means, those who started with such actions. Rao charged that the Congress, BRS and MIM were following the same political path and had collectively set back Telangana’s development.

The BJP leader lauded Central schemes and claimed that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Centre had supported Telangana with major projects, from AIIMS to national highways, and that the state government’s claims of neglect were misleading. He alleged corruption, nepotism and administrative failures had left youth, farmers, women, employees and pensioners dissatisfied.

Marking a year in office as state president, Rao urged party workers to unite as “Team BJP” and intensify outreach ahead of key elections, promising that with Centre’s support the BJP would transform Telangana into a model state.