The BJP has slammed both the Congress and the BRS for using foul language against each other instead of indulging in a healthy political debate on governance.
BJP leader and Union minister of state for home affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar lashed out at both parties for indulging in “gutter politics” after BRS working president KT Rama Rao urged chief minister Revanth Reddy’s wife to tie him up, or otherwise he would bite.
Reddy had also launched a personal attack on former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in retaliation. Still, the BRS leaders maintained that KCR had not taken any names while criticizing the Congress government.
Union minister of state for home affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar today said, “Telangana is witnessing pure verbal diarrhoea! No talk on development. No accountability. Just filth from those in power and those desperate for relevance. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and Congress and KCR and BRS have replaced public debate with foul language.” He went on to add that “Telangana needs jobs, investments, farmer support and better urban infrastructure. Not daily abuse matches between the ruling party and the Opposition. Telangana voted for governance, but only gutter politics since 2014.”
Earlier in the day, BRS working president KT Rama Rao today lashed out at the chief minister for using abusive language against his father and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, pointing out that it was unbecoming of the office he was currently occupying. KTR, as Rao is popularly known, said he was urging Reddy’s wife to tie him up, else he would bite somebody. He repeatedly called the chief minister Delhi’s ghulam (slave). Rao also said that he, too, can curse in several languages, but was mindful of the chief minister’s chair. “You took a vow to prevent KCR coming to power. Instead, take the vow of providing poor women with the one tola of gold you promised during the polls from 1 January,” said Rao.
Recently, Revanth Reddy unleashed a volley of barbs at K Chandrasekhar Rao in his own constituency, Kodangal, asking him to jump into Mallanasagar (a dam of the Kaleshwaram project) with a stone tied around his waist. He repeated his jibe at KT Rama Rao, claiming he had cleaned bathrooms in the US and pointed out he had studied in Andhra Pradesh. Reddy was reportedly upset with K Chandrasekhar Rao for saying he would soon skin the Congress government while attacking it for being silent on Telangana’s water rights.