SIDDIPET: While TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was at Kodangal, a Congress bastion, the same day Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and, surprisingly, actor-turned-politician Nagma managed to attract a huge crowd at Gajwel, considered a TRS stronghold. Rao has represented Gajwel multiple times in the past and is seeking re-election from there once again.
Campaigning for the Vanteru Pratap Reddy, Grand Alliance’s candidate, Azad launched a no-holds-barred attack against Chandrasekhar Rao.He claimed that the TRS government had redesigned many irrigation projects, envisioned by Congress, and packaged them as his own ideas.
“KCR’s government has acquired nearly 30,000 acres of land in Siddipet district for the construction of these projects. But has he compensated the farmers that sacrificed their lands for him,” Azad asked.The senior AICC leader said that he had not seen a CM like KCR in his entire career. “This man (KCR) works has not been to the Secretariat till now. He ran his government from his farmhouse,” he said. Azad claimed that Rao had failed to implement the promises he made in 2014. “He has not fulfilled a single promise. He said he would provide drinking water to every house in the State. All of his failures seem to have forced him into calling for early elections,” Azad said.
Azad alleged that TRS and BJP had made a secret pact. “Look at Musheerabad constituency where the dummy TRS candidate (Mutha Gopal) has not campaigned for nearly a week, just to help BJP State president K Laxman who is a candidate there. Similarly, TRS has fielded another dummy against BJP leader Kishan Reddy at Amberpet,” he said.