Revanth Dares KCR To Stop Congress From Winning 2029 Polls

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy took a vow in his home constituency of Kodangal on Wednesday, declaring that as long as he remained in politics, BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao or any of his family members would not return to power. He said that Chandrashekar Rao and the BRS were a thing of the past and that the Congress represented the future of Telangana.

Addressing newly elected sarpanches, Revanth Reddy threw an open challenge to Chandrashekar Rao and BRS leaders K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao to try and prevent the Congress from winning the 2029 elections.

He said the Congress would retain power with a two-third majority by winning more than 80 of the 119 Assembly seats. If the Assembly strength was increased to 153 seats by then, the Congress would secure over 100 seats.

Taking strong exception to Chandrashekar Rao’s recent remark that he would “skin” the Congress, Revanth Reddy challenged him to come to Kodangal and repeat it, claiming that Congress sarpanches in the constituency alone were enough to “skin KCR, tie him and hang him to the tamarind tree at his native village Chintamadaka.”

Revanth Reddy said that if he were to use the same language as the BRS president, “KCR would die by jumping into Mallannasagar or hang himself at Ranganayakasagar.” He also came down heavily on Rama Rao and Harish Rao for their comments that he had been hiding in the house for three days after Chandrashekar Rao held his press conference on Sunday.

The Chief Minister also took a swipe at Chandrashekar Rao for terming his Bharat Future City project as a “real estate deal”. Revanth Reddy said the Future City project was “not a Dubai passport broker's racket like KCR did in the past.”

Revanth Reddy said Chandrashekar Rao had remained confined to his farmhouse for nearly two years after losing the Assembly elections and remarked sarcastically that the former chief minister appeared to have spent that period “practising skinning.” He referred to a mutton shop in Shaikpet and said he would recommend that Chandrashekar Rao be offered skinning work there, adding in a mocking tone that he would also suggest providing him free mutton pieces.

Recalling his tenure as the TPCC president in 2021, Revanth Reddy said he had then challenged Chandrashekar Rao that he would enter his Gajwel constituency with thousands of party workers and defeat him politically. He claimed that he had won the challenge and that Chandrashekar Rao and the BRS were subsequently pushed into political irrelevance.

The Chief Minister strongly criticised Rama Rao for alleging that he was hiding at home out of fear after Chandrashekar Rao’s re-emergence in public, asserting that he “neither feared KCR nor his son” and questioned the BRS working president’s political stature. He said unlike Rama Rao, he had not relied on his father’s name to build a political career and had risen to his position through his own efforts.

Revanth Reddy said he had not indulged in what he termed “vendetta politics” during the past two years despite facing harassment under the previous BRS regime. He alleged that Chandrashekar Rao, Rama Rao and Harish Rao had filed 181 cases against him and his family and had sent him to Chanchalguda and Cherlapally jails when they were in power.

After assuming office, Revanth Reddy said he had consciously chosen not to focus on retaliation, expressing faith that justice would prevail in its own course. He attributed Chandrashekar Rao’s present condition to divine retribution, claiming it was an act of God for past actions.

Revanth Reddy further remarked that the former chief minister was already living a jail-like existence, confining himself to his farmhouse under police surveillance. He argued that sending Chandrashekar Rao to prison would only burden the government with unnecessary expenses, as he had effectively isolated himself.

He asserted that the BRS was on the verge of political extinction, citing successive defeats since the Assembly elections. The Chief Minister criticised the ridicule of projects such as Bharat Future City and the proposed Vantara investment, which he said were wrongly portrayed as personal real estate ventures. He maintained that such projects would generate income and promote development, rejecting allegations of impropriety.