Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has likened the consoling of family members of those who sacrificed their lives for statehood to Telangana by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to “killers paying homage to martyrs”.
Congress has a history of being the cause for bloodbath in the form of killings and sacrifices in Telangana, first by merging Hyderabad State with Andhra Pradesh, and then, delaying statehood for 10 years even after including the issue in the President’s address to Parliament, TRS leaders alleged on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference, Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy, MPs M. Srinivas Reddy, B. Lingaiah Yadav, legislators B. Suman, G. Jaipal Yadav, A. Venkateshwar Reddy, V.M. Abraham, S. Vani Devi and Mahabubnagar ZP chairperson Swarna Sudhakar Reddy asked that if Congress was so farmer-friendly, why was it defeated so badly in Punjab recently. Congress was defeated in Telangana in 2018 in spite of promising ₹2 lakh farm loan waiver, they said.
