Not Taking Part In State Formation Day Fete, KCR Tells CM

BRS chief and former CM K Chandrashekar Rao today released an open letter to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in reply to the latter's invitation to him to participate in tomorrow's official Telangana Formation Day celebrations.

In the letter, he said that the BRS and he were not participating in the celebrations organised by the State government on the occasion of the State's Formation Day.

"We are protesting against the Congress tendencies that are insulting the existence of Telangana. The formation of the State was the result of a long people's struggle and the sacrifices of the martyrs. Revanth Reddy has hurt the sentiments of Telangana by not visiting the Martyrs' Memorial and paying homage to them even in six months of becoming the Chief Minister. The CM has still not changed his behaviour and his party's behaviour. It won't change anymore. It is clear that there is no possibility of any change in the future. I am protesting against the poverty of the sentiments of the Congress, which is being propagated at the mercy of the party," he said.

KCR said the Gun Park Martyrs' Memorial was a testimony to the Congress' repression in which 369 people were killed in the first phase of the separate Telangana movement. He said that the Congress' brutality in preventing even the unveiling of the Martyrs' Memorial had remained in the pages of Telangana's history. He alleged that the Congress was definitely responsible for taking the lives of hundreds of young people in the final phase of the separate Telangana movement.

He added that the formation of the TRS was a historic attempt to correct the injustice done by the Congress to Telangana. He also said that the formation of the party with the aim of achieving Telangana in a parliamentary and peaceful manner was a turning point in the Telangana movement.

In the letter, KCR also expressed his displeasure over CM Revanth Reddy not uttering the slogan of Jai Telangana so far. "People are objecting to your mental disability of not being able to utter the Jai Telangana slogan, which is the lifeline of the people of Telangana," he said. He said that the Telangana society would want the CM to come out of his anti-Telangana mentality and chant that slogan.

He said that his participation in the celebrations organised by the government would not be justified in the wake of the allegations that the Congress government was taking the State in a retrograde direction. KCR said that the Telangana activists, including the members of the BRS, were of the same opinion. "We are sorry to inform you that the BRS is not participating in the centenary celebrations that you are organizing. We hope that in the future, the CM will shun such an attitude and strive for true progress and welfare, fulfill all the election promises at the earliest and win the respect of the people," KCR said in his letter.

He suggested that the Congress leaders change their attitude and work for welfare.