Focus On AP, Not GHMC Polls, KCR Tells Naidu

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today slammed the TDP, the Congress and the MIM for their campaign and remarks.

At a media conference, he found fault with the MIM leadership for raking up the beef issue. Though the MIM was a TRS ally, its president Asaduddin Owaisi's beef comments were unwarranted, he stated.

KCR also ridiculed his Andhra Pradesh counterpart and TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu for his campaign in Hyderabad, which he said would not fetch any votes for the Party. Naidu should focus on developing his own State, he suggested.

"Naidu has got a lot of work at Vijayawada, Vizag and many other places, and should spend his time and energy there," he said.

During its 17 years of rule the TDP had left the city in gloom and piled up many problems, and Naidu's campaign claims were meaningless, he charged.

KCR took jibes at the TDP and Congress' remarks over the city's development during their regimes, and said that the previous governments had only left behind many problems which needed time to resolve.

The TRS government during its 19-month-rule had also ensured that there was not even a single criminal incident of intolerance or showing regional biases among the people after the bifurcation, he claimed.

"Our government has disproved the malicious campaign spreading doubts over the security of certain sections of the people, and the citizens are living as usual in a brotherly atmosphere," he said.

He also added spitefully, "We have heard of black money, and now the voters should also be wary of those involved in AP's call money scandal coming to seek votes in the GHMC polls."

Despite the campaigns of the TDP-BJP combine, the Congress and the MIM, the TRS would be the winner in the GHMC elections, he claimed, though he declined to disclose the number of seats that the TRS could win.

"We maintain friendly relations with all these Parties, and will continue to irrespective of the verdict," he said.