Modi: Time has come for BJP govt in T'gana

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao of delivering "scams instead of promised schemes", and said that the nine-and-a-half years that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has ruled the poll-bound state have been replete with unfulfilled promises and broken commitments.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

Modi said the state was poised to elect a BJP government as he addressed two rallies in Telangana on Sunday, upping the political ante in the southern state that goes to the polls on November 30-in the fifth and final stage of assembly elections that decide the electoral fortunes of five states.

Addressing a rally at Toopran in the state's Medak district, Modi said K Chandrashekar Rao (known popularly as KCR) has a habit of making promises with the intention of misleading people.

"He has failed to fulfil many of his promises. He promised to make a Dalit chief minister, but did not stick to it. The Dalit Bandhu scheme was not implemented completely, as he promised. He could not fulfil his other promises like providing employment for the youth and irrigation facilities to farmers," Modi said. "KCR has delivered scams to you instead of promises." The Dalit Bandhu scheme is a welfare programme empower Dalit families and to encourage entrepreneurship among them. Through this, the government provides a onetime financial assistance of 10 lakh for eligible family to take up self-employment programmes.