TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who had branded Narendra Modi ‘an enemy of Telangana,’ on Monday went a step ahead and vowed to prevent Mr. Modi from becoming Prime Minister.
Coming down heavily on Mr. Modi for his reported comments on Hyderabad in an interview to a vernacular daily, Mr. Rao said that the former was talking with “arrogance” and “ignorance” and without “understanding” the woes of Telangana people. “Mr. Modi is under the influence of the Naidu duo (Chandrababu and Venkaiah) and talking as directed by them”, he said at an election meeting here.
“If you vote for the BJP, it will be a vote for the TDP which is trying to create trouble for Telangana as regards Hyderabad. We cannot protect Hyderabad if you don’t send 16 TRS members to the Lok Sabha . Andhra leaders, who illegally amassed lands and wealth in the city, are misleading Mr. Modi”, he charged.
‘Dispute not over’Reiterating that the dispute with Andhra people was not over, the TRS president said victory of the TDP-BJP combine would sound death knell for Telangana State. Like former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy who had spoken against Telangana on the very next day of polling in the region, Mr. Modi would also make statements detrimental to the new State at his Tirupati meeting slated to be held on the polling day in Telangana, he said.
“This is exactly what is going to happen. Therefore, we must be very alert and use our vote very judiciously. Mr. Modi is saying that Hyderabad doesn’t belong to one region. I want to ask him whether the city is his grandfather’s asset. It belongs to the people of Telangana as it was built with the tehsil (tax) paid by our forefathers”, he said.
“Mr. Modi wishes to make Hyderabad the second capital of the nation. I view this as part of conspiracies hatched by Andhra leaders,” Mr. Rao said
