KTR slams congress over BRS defections, accuses party of hypocrisy
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K Taraka Rama Rao lashed out at Congress for encouraging defections of their leaders into their party. The criticism comes after a slew of defections of BRS MLA into Telangana congress spearheaded by Telangana Chief minister Anumula Revanth Reddy.
In the series of defections, on Sunday Jagitayla BRS MLA Sanjay kumar joined congress in the presence of Chief minister Revanth Reddy. Recently giving blow to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi party, senior leader Banswada MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy joined the Indian National Congress (INC) on Friday. Earlier Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari and Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender who contested from BRS shifted their loyalties to congress.
Commenting over the same BRS working president KTR took to X(formerly twitter) said, “The power of people is always stronger than the people in power. We have faced several defections of MLAs in the past in 2004-06 when Congress was in Government .Telangana responded strongly by stepping up the people’s agitation & eventually Congress had to bow its head. History shall repeat itself.”
The power of people is always stronger than the people in power
We have faced several defections of MLAs in the past in 2004-06 when Congress was in Government
Telangana responded strongly by stepping up the people’s agitation & eventually Congress had to bow its head…
— KTR (@KTRBRS) June 24, 2024
KTR picks up examples of Congress government diktats from other states
Earlier at the time when Banswada MLA Pocharam Srinivas defected, KTR shared a news report of The Congress Haryana unit demanding the Assembly Speaker there, to disqualify Tosham MLA Kiran Choudhry, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP.
In their letter the Congress quoted the Section 2 (1) (a) of the Tenth Schedule pertaining to disqualification on ground of defection, a member of a House belonging to any political party shall be disqualified for being a member of the House if he or she has voluntarily given up his or her membership of such political party. Taking dig at the same KTR tagged Rahul Gandhi and pointed out what congress is doing in Telangana. , KTR took to X and tweeted, “If it happens with Congress, they cry a river & play victim.If Congress does the same in Telangana, they celebrate it as a Triumph.The awkward Double jeopardy & Hypocrisy of Congress at its PeakWhat say @RahulGandhi Ji?(sic)”