Hyderabad:
Barely an hour after Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao wished to affix the Nationwide Democratic Alliance and that he had “refused him entry”, state Minister Ok T Rama Rao has clapped again and stated that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi was “not mad sufficient” to affix the alliance.
Mr Rao, who’s the working president of the BRS and the son of chief minister KCR, stated his father would by no means need to work with the BJP.
“This Prime Minister is so inconsistent. On the one hand, he says BRS has funded Congress in Karnataka after which he says he has not allowed us into NDA. Have we been bitten by a rabid canine that we are going to go and be a part of the NDA? So many events are leaving your alliance. The Shiv Sena left you, the Janata Dal (United) left, and so did the Telugu Desam Social gathering and the Shiromani Akali Dal,” the minister, who can be known as KTR, stated in a mixture of English and Hindi.
Taking a dig on the ruling alliance, he stated, “Who’s with you? Who do you may have within the NDA apart from the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate and the Earnings Tax division?”
PM’s Allegations
At a rally within the poll-bound state’s Nizamabad earlier on Tuesday, the Prime Minister had claimed that Ok Chandrashekar Rao made a number of makes an attempt to affix the NDA after the municipal elections in 2020
“These have been personally rebuffed. I stated, ‘we cannot cheat individuals of Telangana’. After that, his thoughts was rattled,” the PM stated.
The PM’s remarks additionally included a dig at KTR and ‘dynastic politics’ inside the BRS.
“They (the BRS) acquired offended (after being refused entry). However then he (KCR) got here again… instructed me he now desires to offer all accountability to KTR. ‘I’ll ship KTR, you please bless him’, KCR instructed me,” the Prime Minister claimed.
“I stated, ‘KCR, that is democracy. Who’re you to offer KTR all the things? Are you a king?’ After that he by no means got here earlier than me. He’s unable to face me,” the Prime Minister declared.