Ready to Face Punishment if Congress Wins Fewer Than 80 Seats: Revanth Counters KCR

Hyderabad: After BRS chief K. Chandrashekar Rao declared in Kodangal on Wednesday that TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy would not become the next Chief Minister and that the Congress would not secure more than 20 seats, Revanth Reddy hit back at Rao, saying he was “ready to face any punishment if the Congress gets even one seat less than 80”.

Addressing public meetings in Nizamabad (Rural), Narayankhed, Gajwel and Kukatpally on the day, Revanth said that Congress will seek votes showing the Sriramsagar project, questioning if Rao was ready to seek votes for the Kaleshwaram project or Medigadda barrage.

“If KCR has guts, he should accept this challenge,” Revanth said, lashing out at Rao for dubbing ‘Indiramma Rajyam’ as a “regime of poverty and starvation”.

“Indiramma Rajyam means the government of the poor, while BRS Rajyam means the government of ‘doras (feudal lords)’ and thieves. KCR deceived poor people saying he would give them double bedroom houses, but he only built a 150-room Pragathi Bhavan for himself,” Revanth said.

Defending the ‘Indiramma Rajyam’ by claiming it was a regime of welfare and development, Revanth said: “Congress governments have built houses for the poor. We waived farmers' loans, paid minimum support prices, gave titles to podu lands and provided reservation to STs. Ours was not a government of robbers or feudal lords. But BRS leaders collected commissions, involved in sand and land mafia. They should be chased away.”

Revanth said that the people of Gajwel wanted to discard Rao, due to which he “fled” to Kamareddy. “Not just Kamareddy, KCR will be defeated by the people of Telangana even if he flees to Kanyakumari,” he said.

Revanth, alleging that Rao “drowned people of Gajwel constituency in Mallannasagar project” in return for electing him twice, urged them to retaliate by pushing “KCR into Konda Pochammasagar reservoir or drown him in Ranganayakasagar reservoir” for neglecting them.

Revanth said that no one in the world could compete with Rao in lying and cheating. He said that Rao had promised to complete the Basaveshwara and Sangameshwara projects within a year, but failed to do so even after nine years.