HYDERABAD: Refuting the accusations of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao during his media conference, the PCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy described Mr Rao’s remarks as a result of “frustration and fear of losing the elections”.
Addressing the media along with Mr Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah at the Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday, Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Chief Minister had “crossed all limits” to target the Congress by spreading falsehoods.
He said the Congress had nothing with the petitions filed against regularisation of contract employees of the energy department or dependent jobs in SCCL, and demanded an unconditional apology. They said the people have a fundamental right to approach courts, and Mr Rao could not suppress this right.
He said that the language that Mr Rao used “does not suit the stature of a Chief Minister.” “His body language and tone were full of arrogance laced with frustration”, he said.
Congress activists try to hang an effigy of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on a tree as a part of their protest at Polo Ground.
Leaders of the Opposition K. Jana Reddy and Shabbir Ali along with MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy condemned the language used by the Chief Minister.
Mr Jana Reddy said most of the cases in court were filed by TRS workers. He said the Chief Minister had become intolerant of criticism and court judgements. He said Congress had never objected to the development of state but only exposed the flaws in governace.
Mr Shabbir Ali said that the CM was proving to be “despotic (rakshana palana)” which was not good for democracy. He demanded that Mr Rao withdraw his remarks on the Congress and a issue a public apology for his “silly and shameful public conduct”. “What Mr Rao has done so far is deceiving the people with false poll promises,” he alleged.
At a separate media interaction, TD working president Revanth Reddy asked Mr Rao to explain why he did not close down TRS when the party got 10 seats out of the 46 it contested in 2009, and going by his logic tat only seats and votes would decide the future of political parties.
