Rao attacked the political culture of the Congress and the BRS, accusing both of encouraging disruptive elements and a similar mindset.
Hyderabad: BJP state president N. Ramchander Rao on Thursday urged implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Telangana, saying a common civil law — while exempting Scheduled Tribes’ customs — would grant women and children clear legal rights to property and adoption.
Speaking at the party’s cadre training camp under the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shikshan Maha Abhiyan at Moinabad in Rangareddy district, Rao said UCC was not anti-religion and noted that states such as Uttarakhand, Goa and Assam have already enacted similar measures.
He likened the importance of UCC to landmark steps like the Modi government’s repeal of Article 370 and recalled nationwide approval when Triple Talaq was abolished.
Rao attacked the political culture of the Congress and the BRS, accusing both of encouraging disruptive elements and a similar mindset.
He referred to the controversial remarks by former BRS MP Balka Suman and blamed both parties for misleading unemployed youth and students, criticising the previous BRS government for deception and the current Congress administration for failing to provide jobs and clear fee reimbursement dues.
He also condemned the state government’s procurement failures after unseasonal rains left paddy, maize and jowar soaked at purchase centres, saying farmers were abandoned despite promises to “buy until the last grain” and that the government was shifting blame to the Centre.
The BJP leader reaffirmed that the party’s Rythu Gosa-BJP Bharosa yatra, which concluded in Nirmal (Sarangapur), would continue to press for farmers’ rights until justice is delivered. He warned against intimidation of BJP leaders and workers through false cases or house arrests.
Rao welcomed the Supreme Court’s endorsement of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, accusing opposition parties, including Congress, BRS and MIM of spreading malicious propaganda to undermine the process of removing fake and deceased voters.
In a related development, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr K. Laxman praised the apex court verdict as vindication of SIR’s constitutionality and the Election Commission’s authority.
He said the judgment exposes what he described as Rahul Gandhi and Congress’s “lies,” alleging opposition attempts to politicise the exercise as a disguised National Register of Citizens.
Dr Laxman accused I.N.D.I.A. bloc leaders of pursuing vote-bank politics and undermining electoral credibility after recent poll defeats.
