Narendra Modi's Visit Unproductive: Congress

TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Telangana was in vain.

Speaking to the media at the Gandhi Bhavan today along with TPCC Working President Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, General Secretary Mahesh Kumar Goud and Paidipally Ravinder Rao, Reddy alleged that the PM had shed "crocodile tears" for dalits, especially for those who had died at the hands of cow-vigilantes in Gujarat recently. Dalits were facing atrocities in both Telangana and the rest of India, he added.

Reddy also found fault with the Prime Minister's statement that his government had lowered the prices of urea, saying that the price of urea did not decrease in proportion with the international oil prices. He also noted that there was no mention of the proposed Tribal University in Modi's speech.

He alleged that the TRS and the BJP were basically in a hurry to form an electoral alliance. The whole inaugural ceremony of Mission Bhagiratha was a cover-up for irregularities in the State government's projects, and indicative of an attempt to form an alliance, he claimed.

"KCR's government wasted Rs. 25 crores of the taxpayer's wealth for the Prime Minister's meeting in Medak. The government used RTC buses for Modi's meeting, causing discomfort to the citizens," he alleged.

Reddy also accused the State government of doing nothing about the Godavari waters, and claimed that it was the Congress that worked on bringing the waters to Hyderabad. "This government merely takes the previous government's schemes and changes their names," he said.

Reddy also lambasted the attitude of the TRS government towards dalits. "It is shameful on the part of this government that it failed to initiate action against the BJP MLA who dishonored dalits recently," he said. He also decried the arresting of Congress leaders for protesting against the proposed Mallanna Sagar reservoir, and said that the blocking of people from 14 villages from agitating against the proposed reservoir which would submerge their village was an insane move.

"When people protest, the CM of Telangana chooses to use his police forces to suppress their voices instead of addressing their grievances," he commented.