Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) senior leader and Minister T. Harish Rao has said that vengeance has never been the motive of BRS and its leadership or else Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president A. Revanth Reddy would have been in jail now for his involvement in the cash-for-vote scam when he was with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
He made the comments during his visit to Narayankhed in Sangareddy district on Tuesday. Citing the example of neighbouring States such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, he said it had been the norm to send those in the opposition to jail on one reason or another. However, the focus of the BRS government had always been and would always be the progress of the State and not on targeting the leaders of Opposition parties.
Mr. Rao said it was the same Revanth Reddy who had termed then AICC president Sonia Gandhi as “bali devatha” (goddess seeking sacrifices) while he was with Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and pointed out that it was he who had accused the then Congress government of not supplying power to the farm sector even for six hours a day. But, it was Mr. Revanth Reddy who was singing a different tune now hailing Ms. Gandhi as a goddess.
