Hyderabad: BJP state president N Ramchandra Rao on Wednesday claimed that Congress and BRS were competing with each other to align with the AIMIM to defeat the BJP in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections.
Speaking to the media, Ramchandra Rao said both Congress and BRS believed that an alliance with AIMIM was essential for electoral success in Hyderabad. He asserted that even if all three parties joined hands, they would fail to stop the BJP’s rise in the city. He said public support for the BJP was steadily increasing despite such political strategies.
The BJP leader also expressed strong objection to the Speaker’s inaction against 10 BRS MLAs who had openly defected to Congress. He said the failure to act on the defections weakened democratic values and set a dangerous precedent. Ramchandra Rao said the lawmakers had publicly joined Congress, yet no decision had been taken so far.
GHMC elections row expands to panchayat funding issue
Ramchandra Rao accused the Congress government of ignoring gram panchayat development, just as the previous BRS regime had done. He said the Centre released nearly ₹3,000 crore every year for rural local body development. However, he alleged that the state government was not adding even a single rupee from its own funds for gram panchayats.
The BJP state president said rural development would suffer if the state continued to depend only on central assistance. He added that the BJP would raise these issues both inside and outside elected bodies in the run-up to the GHMC elections.
