Rahul strikes a chord with Warangal crowd

The speech of AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi was simple and straight and won accolades from the general public who attended the meeting.

Be it spelling out the promises of the party for the elections or hitting out at TRS leader KCR, he chose very simple and direct sentences which went down well with the crowds that turned up for the public meeting at Madikonda, a little away from Kazipet town.

Starting from his arrival on dais, Rahul Gandhi was continuously been apprised by party general secretary Digvijay Singh, TPCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah probably on the ‘talking points’ of his speech.

The local leaders Baswaraju Saraiah, G. V. Ramana Reddy, P. Balram Naik, DCC president N Rajender Reddy and others interacted with Mr. Rahul Gandhi making their points as Mr. Lakshmaiah began the meeting relating how the Congress was associated with the separate Telangana movement much before the merger of Andhra and Telangana.

Mr. Lakshmaiah tried to demystify the claims of TRS party and its leader KCR on formation of separate Telangana. In his speech, Mr. Rahul Gandhi doled out promises. He stated that if Hyderabad was IT hub of State, Warangal would be the IT hub of Telangana. It would get huge funds for upgradation of Kakatiya Medical College to the level of AIMS, Textile Park at Station Ghanpur and Wardhannapet among others.

Restrictions pose a problem

Too many restrictions limited the people from coming into the venue of the public meeting. The first half of the venue was filled by the party functionaries and media persons. Those in the end struggled to have a glimpse of Rahul Gandhi. The police did not allow the media persons to carry water bottles stating it was part of security measure. The Congress party leaders who conducted meeting in the afternoon under the sun in severe heat did not bother to extend minimum courtesy of providing water to the invitees.

The cultural troupes at the meeting to engage the crowds put up a poor show. The song and step did not have any pep and punch unlike those witnessed at public meetings of other parties. Seems, they were no preparation on the part of troupes.