HANAMKONDA: Hitting back at the BRS leaders for demanding that he resign as a legislator, Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari on Friday said that during the 10-year pink party rule, former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had lured several MLAs from other parties and none of them resigned before changing their loyalties.
Speaking to the media in Hamankonda, Srihari said: “KCR, during his 10-year rule, lured as many as 36 MLAs from other parties. He even inducted two of them into his Cabinet. But none of them resigned as legislators before joining the BRS.”
“The Speaker did not take any action against them. He did not disqualify them. Then why are BRS leaders asking me to resign,” he wondered.
Srihari further said: “I have received a notice from Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, seeking my explanation. He gave time till September 30 to submit my reply.”
“The Speaker will decide which party I am with, after I send my reply,” he said and added that he was committed to developing his constituency.
“I have already submitted project reports to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, and he has also granted Rs 1,027 crore for development works in the constituency,” he added.
The legislator also revealed that Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka will visit the constituency later this month and lay foundation for several development works and inaugurate a 132/33 kV substation and a 220 kV substation in the Velair mandal.
CHAMALA: WHY KCR STAYED MUM WHEN AP DIVERTED KRISHAN RIVER WATERS?
Hyderabad: Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday accused the BRS of misleading the people of Telangana on irrigation issues and of orchestrating a campaign to tarnish the image of the state government. Addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan, Kiran Kumar questioned the silence of BRS supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao over the alleged diversion of Krishna river waters by the Andhra Pradesh government during his tenure as the chief minister.
“When Krishna waters were being diverted by the AP government, why did KCR remain silent for 10 years?” he asked. Referring to recent controversies related to the Banakacherla and Almatti projects, the MP rejected allegations of administrative negligence.
“The BRS had enacted a drama over the Banakacherla project for a few days and mounted a targeted media campaign against the Congress government,” he said. “When (former minister) Harish Rao’s ‘actions’ failed to have any effect, they brought (ex-MP) B Vinod Kumar on to the stage,” he remarked.