HYDERABAD: The BRS has hit back at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy over the attacks he made during his Kodangal tour. Responding to the Chief Minister's question on what K. Chandrasekhar Rao did for Kodangal in ten years, BRS MLA T. Harish Rao said, "Revanth Reddy, open your eyes and look," and pointed to two 50-bed hospitals built in the constituency under KCR.
What the Chief Minister said
- Launching a Rythu Mela and an industrial expo in Kodangal on Saturday, Revanth Reddy targeted K.T. Rama Rao, saying "simply growing a beard does not make you Revanth Reddy" and "a fox cannot become a tiger".
- He announced 'Praja Balam', a programme to visit every village after Sankranti, and asked the Speaker for a two-day special Assembly session on El Niño, Kaleshwaram and Godavari waters.
- He said projects worth ₹10,000 crore would come to Kodangal and that the Shamshabad–Kodangal radial road would be finished by December 2027.
The BRS reply
On the Chief Minister's remark that he had worked three years without a day off, Harish Rao asked whether the effort was for the people or for commissions. He alleged that farmers got 24 hours of free power under KCR but get about seven hours now, that Rythu Bandhu had not been paid for three crops, and that a veterinary college sanctioned for Siddipet had been moved to Kodangal. BRS leader Vemula Prashanth Reddy said people would defeat Revanth "within two years" and called him an unsuccessful Chief Minister.
The BRS will hold a farmers' rally at NTR Mini Stadium in Nirmal on November 11, and K.T. Rama Rao is expected to attend. The Congress had not responded to the BRS remarks by Sunday night.
