Hyderabad: In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao accused him of lying on central allocation to the state and said his campaign speech was "below the level of sarpanch".
PM's poll speech 'below the level of Sarpanch': Telangana CM Addressing an election rally, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) President said that he wants to see a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the Centre to address the real problems of the country which both the national parties have failed to solve in last 70 years.
KCR, as Rao is widely known, said he would like to contribute to bringing a qualitative change in national politics.
Urging people to elect 16 Lok Sabha candidates of TRS (leaving Hyderabad for its ally MIM), he said only TRS can work to safeguard the state's interests and the state's rights.
KCR demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologize to the people of Telangana for speaking lies.
He was referring to Modi's claims at a BJP rally in Hyderabad on Monday that the Centre had given Rs 35,000 crore to Telangana for various projects.
The TRS chief dared Modi to prove this.
He said Telangana was contributing Rs 1 lac crore to the Centre's share in taxes every year while the Centre was giving only Rs 24,000 crore to the state. "The state is giving you Rs 76,000 crore," he said.
KCR took exception to Modi’s personal remarks about him and said the Prime Minister had stooped to the level of a village sarpanch.
He said both the BJP and the Congress hurl accusations at each other to divert the nation’s attention from their failures and also the real issues like poverty, unemployment and remunerative prices for farmers.
“One says PM ‘chor hai’ and the other says ‘maa-beta zamanat pe hai’. Do people want this?” he asked.
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Hyderabad: In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao accused him of lying on central allocation to the state and said his campaign speech was "below the level of sarpanch".
PM's poll speech 'below the level of Sarpanch': Telangana CM Addressing an election rally, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) President said that he wants to see a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the Centre to address the real problems of the country which both the national parties have failed to solve in last 70 years.
KCR, as Rao is widely known, said he would like to contribute to bringing a qualitative change in national politics.
Urging people to elect 16 Lok Sabha candidates of TRS (leaving Hyderabad for its ally MIM), he said only TRS can work to safeguard the state's interests and the state's rights.
KCR demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologize to the people of Telangana for speaking lies.
He was referring to Modi's claims at a BJP rally in Hyderabad on Monday that the Centre had given Rs 35,000 crore to Telangana for various projects.
The TRS chief dared Modi to prove this.
He said Telangana was contributing Rs 1 lac crore to the Centre's share in taxes every year while the Centre was giving only Rs 24,000 crore to the state. "The state is giving you Rs 76,000 crore," he said.
KCR took exception to Modi’s personal remarks about him and said the Prime Minister had stooped to the level of a village sarpanch.
He said both the BJP and the Congress hurl accusations at each other to divert the nation’s attention from their failures and also the real issues like poverty, unemployment and remunerative prices for farmers.
“One says PM ‘chor hai’ and the other says ‘maa-beta zamanat pe hai’. Do people want this?” he asked.
Also Read:LS polls: EC officials review EVM preparedness in Nizamabad constituency
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PM's poll speech 'below the level of Sarpanch': Telangana CM
Hyderabad, Apr 2 (PTI) In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao accused him of lying on central allocation to the state and said his campaign speech was "below the level of sarpanch".
Rao also said he does not have a desire to be the Prime Minister.
Taking exception to Modi's criticism against him that he consulted astrologers, the TRS president asked "if this is what the Premier should talk about".
Alleging that the Prime Minister did not speak the truth about allocation of funds to the state, Rao, also referred as KCR by many, demanded that Modi apologise to the people.
"What does Narendra Modiji speak? KCR sees horoscope...
Is this what is to be spoken, for the Prime Minister to speak?
Should persons running the politics of the country speak like this? In this country, the Prime Minister speaks going below the level of a sarpanch," he said.
Rao, who was speaking at an election rally at Warangal, was alluding to Modi's comments on him at a rally in Telangana last week that Rao consulted astrologers which affected governance.
"Narendra Modi ji, you are speaking absolute lies today.
(You) are bragging that you are giving Rs 35,000 crore (to Telangana). You did not give Rs 35,000 crore. My brothers and sisters should know. Delhi is not taking care of us. We are taking care of Delhi," he said.
Telangana gives about Rs one lakh crore to the Centre annually in the form of customs duty, income tax, centre's share in GST and others, he said.
What Telangana gets from Delhi is only Rs 24,000 crore, he said.
BJP leaders should answer if Telangana is surviving on Central funds, he said. Telangana is among five-six states that support the country, he claimed.
Rao said he does not fault the Centre over using the funds.
"You are taking and using Rs 75,000 crores of income which is generated from our state. We are not saying it is wrong. But lying after coming here, speaking unwanted things... don't speak like that. I demand that the Prime Minister apologise to the Telangana people. I request (him) not to speak such lies," he said.
Saying that both Congress and BJP which does 'golmaal' (bungling) are not useful to the country, he said that a non-Congress, non-BJP federal front government should come to power at the Centre.
The national parties do not address issues like farmers not getting remunerative price and problem with Pakistan, but does politics in states, he alleged.
Citing media reports, he said non-Congress, non-BJP parties would come to power at the Centre.
He alleged that both the Congress and BJP failed to ensure the country's development as it should have been.
Referring to the comments of a state minister that those who addressed people at the venue in Warangal went on to become Prime Minister, he said he has no desire to be PM.
"I don't have the desire to be Prime Minister", he said.
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