KTR Terms Rahul Gandhi A Failed Politician

Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president K T Rama Rao today said that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was an incapable leader and a failed politician.

Addressing the media, Rao said that Gandhi could not even retain his Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, and had to run away to Kerala to get elected as a Member of Parliament.

Commenting on Gandhi's statement that the then UPA government led by the Congress had granted statehood to the Telangana region, Rao said that the Congress didn't give statehood as a favour, and that the then government had to take the decision because of the pressure mounted by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi led by K Chandrashekar Rao.

He also said that the Congress declaration by Rahul Gandhi in the Warangal meeting was an old one. In the last Assembly election too the Congress had promised a Rs. 2 lakh loan waiver for farmers and a hike in the Rythu Bandhu grant to Rs. 15,000 per year, but the farmers did not believe the promise of the party and rejected it comprehensively at the hustings. The same old promises had been rehashed now in the name of the Warangal declaration, and there was nothing new in it, Rao said.

The TRS leader also asked Rahul Gandhi why the welfare schemes like Rythu Bandhu and 24-hour power supply to the agricultural sector were not being implemented in the Congress-ruled States.

Rao also condemned the remarks of Gandhi that the TRS had an unholy nexus with the BJP and that the party was the B-team of the BJP, and said that the TRS didn't need to forge an alliance with any other party secretly. He also accused Telangana Congress unit president Revanth Reddy of levelling baseless remarks every day against the TRS government, and termed him a follower of Godse.

"Revanth Reddy is a staunch supporter of the RSS ideology and a follower of Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. It is unfortunate that the charge of the party in Telangana has been handed over to such a henious person," he said.