HYDERABAD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao criticized the Congress government, saying that it has not delivered anything of substance to the people and has instead indulged in “politics of diversion” through false propaganda and politically motivated investigations since coming to power.
In an informal chat with reporters here on Monday, he said that making former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao sit for hours in the name of inquiry amounted to an attack on democratic values and was done only to satisfy the government’s political vendetta.
He alleged that both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had failed to secure adequate funds for Telangana and demanded that the investment claims announced at Davos be discussed in the next Assembly session.
Thanking the BRS cadres and supporters for the massive protests held in Telangana, Mr. Rama Rao said demonstrations were held in more than 12,000 gram panchayats and effigies of the government were burnt in more than 7,000 villages. He said the scale and decentralized nature of these protests reminded people of the Telangana movement days.
He said that the Congress government was facing three basic failures – administrative collapse, deterioration of law and order and looting of natural resources, citing the mismanagement of the Medaram Jatara and how public anger spilled over into vandalism.
He dismissed Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao’s prolonged interrogation as political theater and said that although the law allowed officials to investigate him at his residence, he had decided to cooperate fully and attend in person. He argued that the heavy police deployment was only meant to create a media spectacle and divert people’s attention from the government’s failure.
He noted that police officers like VC Sajjanar or anyone else do not have the power to declare something “illegal” through tweets, press conferences or selective leaks, stressing that only the courts can determine legality. Calling Pradesh Congress Committee President B. Mahesh Kumar Gouda’s allegation of being an “extortion party” baseless, Mr. Rama Rao dared to name even one person who was allegedly blackmailed by the BRS.
Published – 02 Feb 2026 21:37 IST
