PM Modi's mega Telangana outreach

Tribune News Service

Vibha Sharma

Hyderabad, July 3

Sounding the poll bugle for Telangana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today promised economic and infrastructure development, without any discrimination, in the youngest state of the country which is due for polls next year.

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They placed full-page advertisements in papers. We have never seen such dirty politics anywhere. The AIMIM and TRS are looting the state. They have spent Rs 40 lakh on posters to counter our meeting. G Kishan Reddy, union minister

Significantly, the PM refrained from any personal attack, or even reference, to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who led an all-out campaign against the BJP during the course of its national executive meeting.

The PM left it to party chief JP Nadda and state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar to take on the Chief Minister and the TRS. They accused him of “rampant corruption and promoting family at the cost of the people of Telangana”.

Addressing the massive Vijay Sankalp Sabha at the Parade Ground, PM Modi concentrated on his government’s programmes, merits of a BJP-led double engine government, ongoing infrastructure projects like elevated corridors and highways to reduce traffic woes in Hyderabad and the upcoming development projects in the state.

Hyderabad gives flight to new hopes every day, the PM said, praising people and promising new projects, including a mega textile park, while focusing on youth and women— two key segments of the BJP vote bank.

The PM talked of increasing support for the BJP since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, telling the cheering crowds that it was keeping in mind their affection that the party had decided to hold its national executive in Hyderabad.

Promising to fulfil the aspirations of all and empower the marginalised and the farmers in the state, he refrained from making any political statement at the public rally. However, addressing the party’s national executive meeting earlier, he referred to Hyderabad as “Bhagyanagar”.

“The country is fed up with dynastic politics and dynastic political parties. It is difficult for such parties to survive long. The parties which ruled India for long are in terminal decline now. We should not mock them but learn from their mistakes,” he said, adding that their aim should be P2G2 — Pro-People and Good Governance.

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