BRS looting' people of Telangana, says Shah

The people of Telangana will put an end to the "family rule" of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the November 30 assembly elections and bring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power, Union home minister Amit Shah said at a rally in the pollbound state on Tuesday.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

Starting the party's election campaign in Telangana at the Praja Garjana (people's roar) rally at Adilabad, Shah said the time had come to herald a double-engine government in the state, referring to the party's election narrative of benefits accruing when the same party is in power at the Centre and in the state.

"For the last two terms, the BRS has been looting the people's money for his family and neglecting the poor and the unemployed youth of the state. The only agenda of chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is to make his son KT Rama Rao as the next chief minister," Shah said.

The national party has three seats in the outgoing assembly of 119 members; the BRS has 104 MLAs and the Congress five.

But in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls held in December 2020, the BJP gave the BRS a run for its money, winning 48 of 150 seats, as against 56 of BRS, and coming a close second.