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Amit Shah dares KCR to go for polls anytime

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has dared the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership to go for Assembly elections any time and said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is game for it with a vow to form the next government in Telangana.

Speaking at the ‘Vijay Sankalp Sabha’ public meeting organised here on Sunday to mark the conclusion of the two-day national executive of the party, he said it was not Prime Minister Narendra Modi who owed answers to the TRS government but it was Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao who needed to answer the people of Telangana on several poll promises, including providing jobs to the youth. “It means only employment to his (KCR’s) son and not for other youth in the State. He wants to make his son Chief Minister and has no concern, whatsoever, for the unemployed youth,” he remarked.

Mr. Shah alleged that the Congress had divided combined Andhra Pradesh with unending disputes between the two successor States. The BJP government at the Centre had created three new States in the past — Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh — but no bad blood had remained among anybody. Accusing the TRS of giving the State’s steering to Mr. Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM) and only because of fear of hurting the latter KCR was also not celebrating the Hyderabad Liberation Day, which he used to speak time and again before becoming the Chief Minister.

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