Ahead Of PM Modi Visit, BRS-BJP War Of Words Intensifies

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting Hyderabad on Saturday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for various projects, the war of words between the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) on the development of Telangana State has intensified.

Minister for Animal Husbandry Talasani Srinivas Yadav asked Modi how many times a train named Vande Bharat would be inaugurated.

He added that the BJP government at the Centre had done nothing for the development of Telangana in the last nine years.

He also accused union minister G Kishan Reddy of failing to develop his Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency despite being in the Modi cabinet.

Another senior BRS leader and State Planning Board Vice-Chairman Boinapalli Vinod Kumar said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao would not receive Modi when the latter arrived in Hyderabad on Saturday.

He claimed that the Prime Minister had not followed the protocol norms, and had also insulted the Chief Minister during his previous Telangana visits.

The Prime Minister was also discriminating against Telangana in the allocation of projects and funds, he added.

BRS MLA Balka Suman alleged that the BJP government had issued notifications for the auctions of coal blocks in the Singareni Collieries, and that that was clear evidence of the privatisation of the collieries.

Meanwhile, speaking to the media in Karimnagar, BJP State unit president Bandi Sanjay accused KCR of misleading the workers of Singareni Collieries in the name of coal block privatization, and said that all the allegations made by the BRS leaders on the privatisation of Singareni Collieries were baseless.

Another BJP MLA Eatala Rajender alleged that the Chief Minister was responsible for reducing the assets of the coal blocks, and was deliberately pushing the collieries into losses.

Meanwhile, the BRS leaders are planning to organise mass protest programs across the Singareni Collieries in Telangana on Saturday opposing the union government's decision to auction some of its coal blocks, and the Telangana BJP leaders are planning a show of the strength by mobilising a large number of the people to the public meeting to be held at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad where Modi will address party cadres during his visit.