Telangana Budget indicates midterm poll, Congress ready: Uttam Kumar Reddy

Hyderabad: Stating that the mega annual Budget indicated that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was inclined to go for snap polls in 2018, , TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Tuesday said that the Congress was ready to face the electorate, be it in 2018 or 2019.

Speaking to newsmen at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Reddy said that the Congress, as main Opposition in the state, has the right to question the misdeeds and misuse of funds by the TRS government.

“We have the right to question the government when it wasted over '70,000 crore in just 2.5 years and was now mortgaging state assets. It has brought no tangible results nor any improvement of the state’s economy,” he said.

The TPCC chief said: “Except making the state No. 1 in respect of liquor consumption and massive defections of legislators into the TRS, there is no other achievement which the state can boast of.”

Responding to minister K.T. Rama Rao’s snide remark that Congress will not win as long as Rahul Gandhi was at the helm of affairs, Mr Reddy said: “KTR is ignorant of the sacrifices Rahul Gandhi and his family members made for the nation. Rahul is not like KTR who came back from US only to loot the state.”

Responding to minister Harish Rao’s comments on the Congress highlighting fudging of GSDP figures, Mr Reddy said, “Probably Harish Rao may not aware that it is the state government that provides the figures to the Centre which in turn put them on the website."