Minister for Transport Ponnam Prabhakar today lashed out at the BJP candidate for the Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat Bandi Sanjay for questioning the Congress government on the implementation of its election promises.
Six former sarpanches and a member of the MPTC, all of the BRS, joined the Congress in the presence of Ponnam at Koheda village in Siddipet district.
Speaking on the occasion, Ponnam said that the BJP government at the Centre didn't implement even a single promise mentioned in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to allocate funds and other projects to Telangana during the last ten years.
"Bandi Sanjay, instead of questioning the Congress government in Telangana, should explain what the Union government has done for the State and why it didn't implement the promises of the AP Reorganisation Act," Ponnam said.
The minister dared Bandi to show a single development work done by the BJP government in Karimnagar district.
"If Sanjay proves that the Modi government has implemented the promises made during its ten-year rule, the Congress will withdraw from the contest in Karimnagar," Ponnam said.
The minister also said that Bandi didn't have any right to question the Congress government on the implementation of its promises as the latter had lost his credibility among the people after he was removed from the post of BJP Telangana unit president on corruption charges.
He urged the people to extend their support to the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, and to teach a fitting lesson to Bandi who he claimed had utterly failed to discharge his duties as MP.