HYDERABAD: Former finance minister T Harish Rao on Wednesday accused BJP general secretary Bandi Sanjay of trying to hog the limelight by making false statements that the BRS was trying to topple the Congress government in the state.
Addressing a preparatory meeting for the Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency, Harish said that Sanjay’s statements are an admission of the friendship between the Congress and BJP.
Refuting the allegations levelled by Sanjay that BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao was trying to poach Congress MLAs, Harish recalled that the BJP leaders were caught red-handed trying to purchase BRS MLAs.
“The Congress has a history of toppling governments and the BJP is known for dividing regional parties,” Harish charged.
He pointed out that the state Congress leaders were meeting and offering bouquets to BJP leaders in Delhi every day.
Harish said that the BRS would wait 100 days before attacking the Congress regime if it failed to implement its election assurances within this time.
He felt that the state budget was not sufficient to implement the assurances given by the Congress.
“The Congress failed to implement its five guarantees in Karnataka and it may not implement them in Telangana,” the former minister said.
Harish said that the base of the BRS was intact in the state and the people would rally behind the pink party again in the next one to two years.
He stressed the need to elect BRS candidates in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections as only the pink party MPs would raise the voice of Telangana in Parliament.
‘People will do it if govt fails to fulfil its promises’
Former MP B Vinod Kumar on Wednesday said that the BRS has no intention to topple the Congress government in the state.
The senior BRS leader was responding to comments made by BJP Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay, claiming that the pink party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was conspiring to bring down the Congress government.
Speaking to the media at Jammikunta, Vinod Kumar said: “The BRS has no intention to topple the Congress government. People will do it if the government fails to implement its guarantees within 100 days as promised during the Assembly elections.”