Reiterating that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was committed to building a federal front against the Congress and the BJP at the national level, Chief Minister and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao asserted that his party was bound to return to power with the blessings of people of Telangana.
“Nearly a dozen surveys conducted by various organisations clearly predicted a certain victory for the TRS in December 7 elections,” he said.
Speaking at a huge public meeting in Madhira town in the final leg of the electioneering to muster support for party candidate Kamal Raj on Monday, Mr Rao alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi had unleashed a misinformation campaign against the TRS.
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‘Agent of people’
“Mr Modi is spreading lies about the power scenario in Telangana, unmindful of power surplus position of the State,” he said, adding that Mr Gandhi was resorting to false propaganda against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi .
While Mr Gandhi was making false accusations against him, saying he was an agent of the BJP, Mr Modi was falsely branding him a Congress agent.
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“I am an agent of people of Telangana and committed to their cause,” he said.
“They are targeting me, being aware of my proficiency in Hindi and the prominent role to be played by the TRS at the national level in New Delhi after the Assembly polls,” he said.
He listed out the TRS government’s welfare schemes such as Rythu Bandhu and Kalayana Lakshmi and took successive Congress and Telugu Desam Party governments in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh to task for allegedly neglecting the backward Telangana for decades.
On local issues, he said the tail-end areas under the Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) canal system in the Madhira Assembly constituency would be converted from third zone to second zone, and the famous temple in Jamalapuram known as “second Tirupati” would be developed.
He promised to set up a Government degree college either in Yerrupalem or Bonakal mandal.
Roads and Buildings Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao and Khammam MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy were present.
Earlier, Mr Rao addressed an election meeting in Sattupalli town.