Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar has dared Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to give tickets to all the sitting party legislators in the coming elections if the Government believes in the survey conducted by the party.
“If the CM provides tickets to all the sitting legislators, then I will not contest polls and go for Rajya Sabha as the Congress will form the Government at the State and Centre after the elections,” he said.
Talking to newsmen here on Monday, he termed the survey conducted by the TRS as a ‘big joke’. “Will the CM provide the post of Deputy Chief Minister to Station Ghanpur legislator K. Rajaiah again, who secured fourth position in the survey conducted by the party,” he questioned.
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People of Telangana are aware as to why Mr. Rajaiah was sacked from his post and the dalits will teach a fitting lesson to the party as it betrayed the promise of making a dalit the first chief minister of the State, he stated.
Ridiculing Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao for challenging the opposition parties to resign and contest elections, he said that the TRS had claimed that it would win 111 seats in the State. He said that to prove their own survey correct, they should call for elections.
He alleged that the TRS Government had issued survey results only to divert the attention of the people from BJP president Amit Shah’s visit and proposed AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the State.
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With regard to the proposed party Prajagarjana to be addressed by Mr. Rahul in Sangareddy on June 1, he called upon the party cadre, the farmers, the unemployed and others to attend the meeting in large numbers. Congress town president Karra Rajashekhar and others were also present.