TRS working president K. Taraka Rama Rao said that Telangana would get justice only when Federal Front attains power at the Centre or plays a key role in the formation of Union Government.
The TRS, by winning all the 16 Lok Sabha seats in the State, would play a key role in the formation of Union Government, he said, and predicted that both the NDA and UPA cannot form government at the Centre in the coming elections.
Stating that several surveys were predicting that the BJP-led NDA would win around 150 seats and the Congress-led UPA would win around 100 to 110 seats, he said that the TRS after 16 seats in the elections would decide the prime ministerial candidate and strive for the development of Telangana.
Mr. Rama Rao made a maiden visit to a tumultuous welcome by the party rank and file in the town on Wednesday to kick off the party electioneering for the ensuring parliament elections by addressing the party workers meeting of the Karimnagar parliament segment at SRR College Grounds.
Addressing a mammoth gathering, the TRS working president said that the Federal Front allies are confident of winning more 100 MP seats. Ridiculing the Congress party claims that the coming elections would be fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AICC president Rahul Gandhi, he said that both are the same as Modi talks about Bofors scandal and Rahul talks about Rafale scandal.
Alleging that the BJP government had deceived Telangana by merging seven mandals from Khammam district with Andhra Pradesh without even informing the Telangana government, he said that the TRS Members of Parliament fought and secured the separate High Court for Telangana, besides AIIMS, IIIT. He flayed the BJP government for not declaring national project status to Kaleshwaram and release of funds for Mission Bhageeratha programme.
Stating that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had emerged as a role model in the country in the implementation of welfare programmes and developmental work, he reminded that the UNO, the Prime Minister and eight States have appreciated the Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bheema schemes. He said that the entire country is now looking at Telangana and said: What Telangana people think today, India thinks tomorrow.
Listing out welfare schemes launched by the TRS government, he said that the government had fulfilled all the promises and assured to increase the pension amount from ₹ 1,000 per month to ₹ 2,016 per month and also increase of Rythu Bandhu assistance from ₹ 4,000 per acre to ₹ 5,000 per acre from April this year onwards.
TRS secretary-general K. Kesava Rao, Ministers Mohamood Ali, Etala Rajender and Koppula Eshwar, Karimnagar Member of Parliament B Vinod Kumar, legislators from seven assembly segments of the Parliament constituency and others were also present.
