BRS leader T. Harish Rao speaking at a street-corner meeting in Shaikpet in support of party candidate for Jubilee Hills by-poll, in Hyderabad, on Saturday.
HYDERABAD
Senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and former minister T. Harish Rao has alleged that it is the Congress leadership of Telangana that has a tacit understanding with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and that is the reason why the Enforcement Directorate is not taking up inquiry into the Revanth Reddy’s cash-for-vote case.
Speaking to newspersons here on Saturday, he said the ED was silent even after conducting day-long raids on the residence of Minister for Revenue Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy here last year, and on the Income Tax Dept raids on the residence of Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka in New Delhi on the charges of sending money for funding Congress in the Bihar Assembly elections.
He faulted Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for misleading people on the flow of investments into the State that about ₹3 lakh crore investments had come in 2024-25 and 2025-26. The official website of TSiPASS, however, has a different story to tell as the investments in 2024-25 were only ₹13,700 crore and just ₹6,472 crore in 2025-26 so far.
Reacting to the Chief Minister’s press meet ahead of polling to the Jubilee Hills by-election, the BRS leader said since he had nothing to claim for his credit during the last two-year rule, he had asked the electorate to vote the Congress based on the development done by the Congress government during 2004-14. It was Mr. Revanth Reddy who had termed Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Sonia Gandhi as demons, and termed the ‘jalayagnam’ programme as the mission to mint money.
He reminded people how they had suffered 12-hour power cuts even for the domestic sector and power holidays for industries till 2014 and how the BRS rule had changed the scenario with uninterrupted power supply to all categories of consumers including the farm sector.
On the debt made during the BRS rule, Mr. Harish Rao said the Centre had replied in Parliament on August 11, 2025 on a question raised by BJP MP M. Raghunandan Rao that the total debt during the BRS rule was ₹2.8 lakh crore. The average growth rate of State’s own tax revenue during 2014-23 was 15% and the per capita income had increased to ₹3.47 lakh.
At a street-corner meeting held at Ambedkar Nagar in Shaikpet of Jubilee Hills constituency later in the evening, he said BRS would stand between the bulldozer that comes to their area for demolition of houses and the people with support to Maganti Sunitha Gopinath in the by-election.
Published – November 09, 2025 12:19 am IST
