Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's recent remarks on the State's financial condition have sparked a political storm in Telangana, drawing sharp criticism from BRS leaders.
Former minister G Jagadish Reddy today slammed the Chief Minister, calling him incompetent and unfit to govern the State. He demanded that Reddy resign immediately and apologise to the people.
"Revanth Reddy is not fit to serve as Chief Minister even for a moment. His statements clearly show that he is incapable of running the government," the former minister said.
Comparing the CM's understanding of finances to someone "who doesn't know onamalu despite studying up to the tenth grade," Jagadish Reddy dismissed the notion that Telangana was facing a financial crisis. He said that the real problem was the correlation between the declining State revenues and the rising personal wealth of the ministers.
"Former CM KCR took a debt-ridden Telangana and raised its income to Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Now, under Revanth Reddy, ministers are looting the State's revenue like a mafia and siphoning it off to Delhi in competing with each other to secure the CM's chair," he alleged.
He also accused the CM of making false claims simply to escape his electoral promises. "Every word Revanth Reddy uttered on Monday was a lie," he said.