KTR Questions "Silence" Of National Leaders Over Lagacharla "Atrocities"

BRS working president K T Rama Rao today questioned the "silence" of the national leaders, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over the Lagacharla "atrocities".

Speaking alongside the "victims" of the Lagacharla incident at a press conference in Delhi's Constitution Club, KTR asked, "Is Telangana invisible to the national leaders? Does the plight of tribals in Lagacharla not deserve the same attention as the incidents in Manipur or Dharavi?"

The BRS leader urged both the BJP and the Congress leaders to break their "silence" and address the pressing issue.

"Rahul Gandhi claims to be a friend of the marginalised, but his actions show otherwise. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's tyranny must end, and Rahul Gandhi must hold his Chief Minister accountable," he said.

KTR asked Gandhi, Modi and other national leaders to visit Lagacherla and witness the suffering firsthand.

"Mr. Gandhi, you said that you would come whenever children called you. Now tribal women and farmers are calling you. Will you come?" he asked.

"Rahul Gandhi often talks about protecting the welfare of the farmers, tribals and women. Yet, his own party's Chief Minister, Revanth Reddy, presides over atrocities in Telangana. Are the cries of the tribal women and farmers in Kodangal inaudible to Rahul Gandhi?" KTR asked.

He called out the Congress' "duplicity", saying that the same party that claimed to oppose crony capitalism was now grabbing tribal lands to facilitate private projects.

"Rahul Gandhi criticises crony capitalism, but is silent on Revanth Reddy's pharma land-grabbing. This is the Congress's double standard," KTR said.

In the press conference, the victims warned that if justice was delayed, they would camp in Delhi until their demands were met.

"We have nowhere else to go. Our lands are our lives, and we will fight until the end," they vowed.