Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president K.T. Rama Rao along with Maganti Sunitha Gopinath, widow of Maganti Gopinath, at an election campaign meeting in Hyderabad on Monday.
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HYDERABAD
Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao asked party activists of Jubilee Hills constituency to knock every household as part of the campaigning in support of party candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath for the byelection, and distribute debt card on the broken promises of the Congress after explaining how it has betrayed different sections.
Speaking at an extended constituency-level meeting of the party at Rahamat Nagar here on Monday, he said the election was taking place between car (BRS) and bulldozer (Congress). Victory of Ms. Sunitha was necessary to stop demolition of houses on various pretexts or else the ruling party would believe that the people of the city had accepted its demolition drive, he noted.
“Every section that is betrayed by the Congress, not only in Jubilee Hills but across Telangana, is looking towards Jubilee Hills voters as to how they would react to the betrayal of the ruling party”, Mr. Rama Rao said and added that BRS win would make the Congress mend its ways and approach towards keeping the election promises.
Senior leader of the party T. Harish Rao remarked that the Congress had not implemented its six guarantees and over 430 other promises made before the Assembly elections even 700 days after coming to power, though it had vowed to fulfil them in just 100 days. “A defeat would make the ruling party know the ground reality,” he said.
Party leader P. Vishnuvardhan Reddy said even hardcore Congressmen like him had to leave the party due to the arrogance of the present leadership. He alleged that those at the helm of affairs had sought money from him for the party ticket in the last Assembly elections.
He vowed all support to Ms. Sunitha’s candidature and that he would not allow the Congress to win Jubilee Hills as long as he was there. He stated that BRS had stood by him when he was facing problems politically.
Former Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, party candidate Ms. Sunitha and others also spoke at the meeting.
Published – October 13, 2025 08:51 pm IST
