Denying it was a referendum on the A Revanth Reddy-led government in Telangana, Congress leaders have accused the BRS of colluding with the BJP to defeat the ruling party in the MLC election for the Karimnagar-Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad Graduates constituency.
A BRS delegation led by former irrigation minister T Harish Rao was on Thursday stopped by police from visiting the accident site of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) near Domalapenta in the Nagarkurnool district of Telangana.
The ‘red book’ of TDP leader Nara Lokesh in which he noted the so-called illegal acts of government officials during the YSRCP regime in Andhra Pradesh, seems to have caught the imagination of the Opposition in Telangana as well.
Participating in a programme at the Congress headquarters, Gandhi Bhavan, Reddy aggressively attacked his rivals in his customary style.
As Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Warangal, slated for tomorrow, stands cancelled, BRS leaders attributed the move to the groundswell against Congress. They say the party sensed the mood of the people who feel betrayed by the policies of the Congress government in Telangana.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is once again regrouping in Telangana to fight one of its toughest electoral battles following the debacle in the Assembly elections last year.
The party has shown grit and resilience, refusing to leave the electoral ground open to either of the two national parties, even after its leaders were poached right and left by BJP and Congress.
The poll panel's action came following a complaint by senior Telangana Congress leader G Niranjan against Rao alleging that in his press meet in Sircilla on 5th April he had made derogatory and objectionable statements against the Congress.
Reddy on Wednesday accompanied the Congress candidate for the Secunderabad seat when Danam Nagender submitted his nomination papers.
BRS leader Dasoju Srravan has even wondered if there was any nexus between the chief minister and the ECI.
