KCR 'remote controlled' by PM Modi, says Rahul Gandhi in poll-bound Telangana

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has dubbed the BRS as “BJP Rishtedar Samiti”, while accusing Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of operating as BJP's B-team extending covert support to the ruling party at the centre.

Rahul, who addressed a Congress rally in Khammam on Sunday evening, vowed to defeat the “BJP's B-Team” in the impending Telangana assembly elections “like they trounced the BJP in neighbouring Karnataka.”

The Congress scion made a poll promise of Cheyutha – a Rs 4000 per month pension for the needy senior citizens and widows and also handover of Podu lands to the Adivasis.

“We defeated the corrupt and anti-poor BJP government in the Karnataka elections. The result will repeat here in Telangana,” Rahul said.

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Rahul revealed that his party had opposed a suggestion to invite the BRS to the opposition parties' meet held recently.

“We said we would boycott the meet if BRS attends as it is BJP's B team. We cannot sit alongside such a party. We can never come to any agreement with it.”

Stating that the BJP is becoming extinct in Telangana, the Congress leader said the fight would be centred between the Congress and “the BJP's B-team” BRS in the elections.

“While the Congress stood against the BJP, BRS-KCR operated like BJP's B team in Parliament on the farmer's bill, supporting it. Whatever (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi desires, your chief minister fulfils as KCR's remote control is in Modi's hands,” Rahul told the rally while alleging that “KCR's corruption is with Modi's blessings.”

“The central agencies are informed of corruption like the (Delhi) liquor scam. That is why I say BRS is BJP's B-team, “BJP Rishtedar Samiti.”

The Khammam meet was organized to mark the culmination of Congress legislature party leader in Telangana Bhatti Vikramarka's 1300 KM long padayatra in the state and also former Lok Sabha MP from Khammam Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, who was earlier with the BRS, joining the Congress.

“KCR thinks he is the Rajah of Telangana and that the state is his jaagir,” Rahul said while accusing the ruling party of being involved in Rs one lakh crore corruption in the massive Kaleshwaram irrigation project.