Kavitha, Raja Singh comments prove BRS, BJP secret partners: TPCC chief
Telangana Congress
president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Friday said the allegations of BRS MLC K
Kavitha
and later by BJP senior MLA T Raja Singh on BJP-BRS merger efforts vindicated the Congress' stand that BRS and BJP are secret partners, and the pink party helped the BJP in the Lok Sabha and MLC elections.
Mahesh Goud also demanded that Union minister G Kishan Reddy reply to allegations made by Raja Singh that some leaders in the saffron party were ready to support BRS-BJP merger in return for a "big package".
Alleging that former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has revived ties with former BRS miniter Eatala Rajender, now a BJP MP, in the backdrop of notices in the Kaleshwaram irrigation probe, the TPCC chief said: "It is learnt that BRS MLA and former irrigation minister T Harish Rao met Rajender at a farmhouse, following which KCR spoke to Eatala over phone."
He accused Eatala of working for the BRS while being in BJP and asked him to make his stand clear if that was not the case.
The TPCC president said that even if the BRS and BJP merged, there would be no impact on the Congress.
"The BRS already scored a zero in Lok Sabha elections and the BJP tally of 8 MPs will remain the same even if there was a merger. The Congress is enjoying the confidence of the people due to its welfare schemes," he said.
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