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.
Meanwhile, the Congress workers today tried to storm BRS headquarters, Telangana Bhavan in Banjara Hills for offensive posts on social media platforms by the BRS.
BJP leader Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday slammed the state government, stating that the bulldozers should go over BJP workers first before the Congress goes ahead with the demolition of houses belonging to the poor.
Hsaid he had gone to the companies associated with family members of chief minister A Revanth Reddy.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer the trial in the 2015 cash-for-vote case against Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy outside the state and also accepted his (Chief Minister) apology on his remarks against the top court decision granting bail to BRS leader K. Kavitha.
It all began with a controversy over the appointment of BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi as the Public Accounts Committee chairman in the Legislative Assembly.
