PM Modi seeks end to dynasty politics, attacks KCR on his home turf

Tribune News Service

Naveen S Garewal 

Hyderabad, May 26

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lashed out at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), accusing him of corrupt dynastic politics that was keeping people away from their rights and aspirations.

In an impromptu address to his party leaders at the Begumpet Airport, the prime minister said he was aware of the personal growth of KCR and his family at the cost of the development of the people. 

The PM was visibly upset, possibly over the report of anti-Modi posters coming up in Hyderabad asking the PM about unfulfilled promises. Also, the Chief Minister KCR violated protocol by skipping meeting the PM as he left for Bangaluru when PM Modi was in town.  

Modi told his party colleagues that he was also aware of the poor treatment being meted out to BJP and leaders as if the struggle for statehood for Telangana was just for the benefit of KCR and his family.    

He went on to say, “Pariwarwaadi parties focused only on their development and do not care about the people, focusing on just how a single-family will stay in power and loot the state. It is evident that they have no interest in the development of people, PM Modi said. He further claimed that BJP workers were being politically targeted in the state. 

One family rule had deliberately made every effort to keep all others away from politics; this has also deprived the state’s youth from entering politics. He said this was not only a political problem, but the family-run politics had become the “biggest enemy of democracy”. 

Accusing the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister KCR government of corruption, Prime Minister Modi said the entire nation watched how the family was working for its gains, indulging in appeasement politics and filling their bank accounts while the people were suffering.  

The Prime Minister also took a jibe at KCR’s religious/superstitious beliefs saying that such people are guided by other factors and cannot work for the development of the state. He said the BJP believed in science and technology and was proud of its leaders like Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who, despite being a “yogi”, did not believe in superstition.  

He promised the people of Telangana that his party would rid Telangana of such superstitious people. In 2016, KCR moved his house due to “Vastu” concerns.PM Modi targeted KCR directly without beating about the bush. Besides KCR, his son, daughter and nephew are in direct control of the party affairs holding official positions; others have been adjusted in Parliament and other places. 

For the second time, KCR has avoided meeting Prime Minister Modi during his visit to Telangana. On an earlier occasion, KCR said he had corona in the family, so he was staying away. Today morning he flew to Bengaluru to call on former PM HD Deve Gowda and said the meeting was planned long ago. 

The Prime Minister said the various elections in Telangana had indicated that people in Telangana have made up their minds to rid the state of the family politics. He said that during the last eight years, the decisions taken by the BJP had boosted everyone’s confidence, and people know they need an honest government.

In Bangaluru CM KCR hit back saying he was only working towards a “ujwal” (bright) India, where 75 years after independence there was no drinking water, a shortage of electricity and people were facing a dark future despite the nation having huge potential and resources.

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