BRS working president and Telangana minister K T Rama Rao today dared the Telangana Congress leaders to visit Karnataka with him to see whether 24-hour power supply was being given to all segments or not.
Karnataka is ruled by the Congress.
"I am asking the Telangana Congress leaders to accept my challenge. We all go to Karnataka together in the same bus. Let's see whether there is power supply there like in Telangana or not," Rao said.
Addressing a Meet The Press program at the Basheerbagh Press Club, Rao said that the people of Karnataka were expressing regret over electing a Congress government, and that some people from Karnataka were coming to the Kodangal, Tandur and Vikarabad areas in Telangana appealing to the people not to commit the same mistake as them of casting their votes in favour of the Congress in the upcoming Assembly elections.
He claimed that Telangana has achieved a lot of progress in various sectors during the last nine and half years under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, and that it had now become a role model for other States in the country.
Responding to a question on BJP leader Amit Shah's announcement of making a backward class (BC) leader as the Chief Minister of Telangana after the upcoming Assembly elections, the BRS working president said that the BJP didn't have any love and affection for the BCs. He said that if the BJP really cared for the BCs, it would not have removed its Telangana unit president Bandi Sanjay, who belonged to a backward class.
He also added that the BRS had been asking union government for the last 20 years for a separate portfolio for OBCs at the Centre, but that neither the Congress or the BJP governments had responded to that.
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