Telangana Congress leader and Karimnagar MLC T Jeevan Reddy today slammed the leaders of the BJP, claiming that although the latter had "threatened" to put Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao behind bars on several occasions, on charges of corruption and misrule, they had not yet taken any steps to do so.
In a media address, he asked the BJP leaders who or what was stopping them from getting the CM arrested, and hinted that it was the alleged friendship between the TRS and their party that was the cause of their inaction.
Reddy then accused the two parties of being in cahoots with each other, and "playing with lives of the farmers" in the state and the country.
"The state government, led by the CM, has behaved in an irresponsible manner by abandoning Telangana's farmers with its decision to implement the Centre's exploitative farm laws. The implementation of the new legislations will result in the dismantling of the MSP system, and will therefore leave the farmers vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of big businesses. The BJP-led Centre too, which has the responsibility of protecting its people, has done the farmers of the country a great disservice by introducing the Acts. Instead of solving the problems being faced by them, the Centre has abandoned them in order to privilege corporate interests," he said.
"I want to know whether KCR feels that it is beyond his responsibilities as CM to protect agrarian interests. If he truly believes in standing by the farmers, as he claims he does, why has he not passed a resolution in the state Assembly against the three Acts so far? His recent actions have been ill-considered and deeply anti-farmer. A regime which cannot even procure its farmers' crops at the MSP has no right to reman in power," the MLC added.
KCR's recent
"U-turn" on the issue of the implementation of the Centre's farm Acts in the state, which followed his return from his
Delhi trip where he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has caused many politicians in the state to lash out at the him, and has only added fuel to the speculations regarding the "secret alliance" between the TRS government and the BJP.