KTR Challenges Revanth Reddy To Public Debate On City

BRS working president K T Rama Rao today issued a sharp challenge to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, inviting him to a public debate on Hyderabad's development.

Speaking at the release of the Jubilee Hills Progress Report, KTR said that the BRS was ready to discuss, in any language and at any venue, the achievements it had delivered for Hyderabad during its ten years in power, and compare them to the Congress government's record over the past two years.

"If Revanth Reddy has the courage, he should fix the date, time and place. Be it the Command Control Centre, Gandhi Bhavan or the Assembly - we are ready," KTR said, daring the Chief Minister to come forward and "let the people decide whose record is genuine".

KTR listed several civic achievements from the BRS years and contrasted them with what he described as Congress' inaction. He cited the construction of 42 flyovers and multiple underpasses, improved sanitation under Swachh Hyderabad and SNDP, a sustained solid-waste collection system averaging 7.5 metric tonnes per day, and the delivery of numerous double-bedroom houses.

He accused the Congress government of in contrast completely failing the city during its two-year tenure. He claimed that the current government had halted or reversed many projects, allowing potholes, water-tanker dependence, and rising crime rates to plague the city. He also challenged the Congress to identify even a single new road, LED lighting project, nursery or metro expansion project completed in the past two years.

KTR also accused the Congress and the BJP of forming an "unprincipled alliance" in Telangana, and condemned remarks by certain leaders that, he claimed, insulted the minorities. He demanded that Revanth Reddy apologise for statements that demeaned particular communities, and warned the latter that if he did not, the people would decide the consequences at the ballot box.

The BRS working president urged the Jubilee Hills voters to judge performance, not propaganda. "We are showing what we did and then asking for votes. If the Congress has done anything substantive in two years, let them explain it in public. If they can't, the people will deliver their verdict on November 11," he said.