KCR Hoists National Flag

The 10th anniversary celebrations of the formation of Telangana State were celebrated in a grand manner by the BRS.

BRS chief and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao attended the function held at Telangana Bhavan in the city. Speaking on the occasion, he said that it was an emotional day, and recollected the days of the Telangana movement.

He lamented that the Telangana region and its people had been insulted for a long period. He also recalled that Indira Gandhi did not show mercy even though 11 MPs won on a Congress ticket from Telangana during the first phase of the separate Telangana movement, and that there was a ban on the use of the word Telangana in the undivided AP Assembly.

"At such a time, Prof Jayashankar worked for Telangana. Jayashankar was waiting for someone like KCR to come for Telangana, and told me the same thing several times," he said.

"At that time, the Congress and TDP leaders were working for their own selfish interests. No one responded to the call for Telangana statehood. Any Telangana leaders who became the CM did not stay in office for a full term, and were ousted in the middle. Jayashankar told me to stand for Telangana till the end. It was not easy at any stage. At the time that I took up the path of agitation itself there was a powerful CM who had even the union government in his hands. When Konda Laxman Bapuji gave us an office, his house was demolished. But I decided that justice would be done to the farmers of Telangana only if Telangana came into existence," he claimed.

"Telangana State has been achieved with many efforts. And the BRS stands for that struggle, and no one can destroy it. We lost in the Assembly elections, but as soon as I started the bus yatra again, Telangana roared. What we are experiencing now is just a temporary setback. We will come back to power in future," he added.

KCR said that he was surprised by the State government's actions. "I don't understand the incompetence of this government. A person at the level of the CM is saying that the power is bring cut off because of Harish Rao. The Congress government politicises everything. They do not allow even toddy workers to survive, by attacking toddy shops," he said.

He congratulated the Mahbubnagar district leaders for the BRS winning the Mahbubnagar local bodies' MLC seat. He also assured the rank and file that in the near future the responsibility of governance would fall again on the BRS' shoulders.