Expose Congress failures, KTR tells party cadre

HYDERABAD

Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has asked the party leaders of Greater Hyderabad to chalk out the strategy for the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election and focus on reminding the electorate how the party government in the past had worked for city’s development.

In a meeting with party MLAs, MLCs and corporators, as also the former legislators and corporators, here on Saturday, he asked them to work collectively to ensure the victory of BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath in Jubilee Hills. He stressed the need to demonstrate the party’s unmatched strength in Hyderabad through this by-election.

“The people of Hyderabad have shown immense faith in BRS by electing our candidates in every past election. We must honour and uphold that trust,” Mr. Rama Rao said. He stated that BRS leaders and GHMC corporators are well aware of the city’s issues and must remind citizens of the remarkable development carried out by the previous BRS government.

“We need to highlight how, under KCR’s leadership, we improved every street in Hyderabad — from road maintenance and flyover construction under the SRDP project to the 20,000 litres of free drinking water scheme, uninterrupted power supply, modern sanitation management and welfare programmes that benefited every household,” he told the party leaders.

At the same time, he asked the party leaders to expose the Congress government’s failures and pointed out that basic civic needs such as sanitation, drinking water supply and drainage maintenance had deteriorated sharply in the city under Congress rule. He accused the Congress of ignoring the city’s development and focusing solely on political gains.

People must be reminded of how the Congress had betrayed them and how Hyderabad had suffered widespread neglect and decline during the last 22 months of their rule, Mr. Rama Rao said and asked the party cadres to explain to every section of the society how the Congress misled them with false promises and empty assurances.

Expressing confidence, Mr. Rama Rao said a BRS victory in the Jubilee Hills by-election would pave the way for a decisive win for the party in the forthcoming GHMC elections. “The pink flag has flown high over GHMC twice before and it will fly high for a third time as well,” he hoped.