Telangana: Revanth Called For Bloodshed Against Political Opponents: Harish
“The Chief Minister resorted to inflammatory language by speaking about spilling the blood of political opponents and beating them with belts”: Harish Rao
HYDERABAD: Former minister and senior BRS leader T. Harish Rao on Saturday castigated Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for “advocating bloodshed against political opponents”, and demanded an unconditional apology from him for his “violent” comments.
Calling Chief Minister’s remarks as “violent and unbecoming” of his office, Harish Rao said, “There is no difference between Revanth Reddy’s call for bloodshed and the mindset of a brutal murderer.”
In a statement, Harish Rao said that instead of responding to genuine concerns raised by farmers and retired irrigation engineers on marshalling water from Godavari River by using Kaleshwaram project pumps, “the Chief Minister resorted to inflammatory language by speaking about spilling the blood of political opponents and beating them with belts.”
The Chief Minister’s response to the demand to lift water from Medigadda barrage demonstrated that the government lacked even the basic intent to provide irrigation water to farmers, he said.
Revanth Reddy’s remarks “reflect a disturbing and violent mindset that is incompatible with the constitutional office of the Chief Minister.” He must tender an unconditional public apology to the people of Telangana and to the farming community, Harish Rao said.
He said that it has become a habit for the Congress government to try and cover up its administrative failures by diverting public attention from serious issues and problems by reviving political controversies over the Kaleshwaram project.
Today’s statements by Revanth Reddy are one such attempt to cover up failures to maintain law and order as proved by the multiple murders at Shabad. The government failed utterly to ensure that stringent legal provisions were invoked against the accused in an earlier POCSO case, allowing him to secure bail. The police negligence enabled the accused to remain free, ultimately resulting in the brutal killing of a minor girl, her mother, grandmother and three young children, he said.
Despite the gravity of the crime, the accused had still not been apprehended. This is a complete failure of the home department and the state’s law-and-order machinery, both of which are handled by the Chief Minister, Harish Rao said