Prime Minister Narendra Modi thrilled the crowd by greeting the gathering in Telugu – “Namaskaram… Telangana ku na vandanalu – salutations to Telangana ”. He reminded that almost three years ago he addressed his public meeting at the same venue even before his name was announced as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate. “It set the political pundits thinking as it forced the nation to look at the party in all seriousness. You also have ticketed the meeting which was an unprecedented act in Indian political history. Now, Hyderabad is set to create any history as I see a big force sitting in front of me, I see the future of Telangana before me. Political pundits already see the significance of this meeting,” he exclaimed to all-round applause.
While other BJP leaders like Muralidhar Rao, Dr. Lakshman, N. Janardhan Reddy and others so on roundly criticised the TRS government, Mr. Modi did not take the State government’s name at all.
KCR’s demands ignored
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not give assurance on any of the major demands made by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at a public meeting here on Sunday, where he went to launch Mission Bhagiratha programme.
In his speech, Mr. Rao said Telangana would not seek funds from the Centre for every small need but would only seek the Prime Minister’s blessings and cooperation. He, however, put forward four demands including giving national project status to one of the major irrigation projects in the State, sanction of AIIMS, IIM and funds for Information Technology & Investment Region (ITIR) with the hope that assurance would come at least on some of them.
But, the Prime Minister chose to ignore the demands by conveniently not making even a mention of any of them during his 36-minute long speech.
