Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday termed the governor’s speech as “blatant lies, half-truths, and misleading statements” meant to mask 15 months of “miserable and utterly failed governance.” The speech appeared more like a Congress workers’ press meet rather than a dignified address, KTR said.
Speaking to the media after the governor’s speech in the assembly premises, KTR said that the governor’s address, instead of outlining new policies or addressing the status of Congress’s 420 election promises and six guarantees, appeared to serve as a mouthpiece for the party’s propaganda. “We expected the speech to be a confession of their disastrous rule,” he said, “but it felt like a press meet at Gandhi Bhavan.”
He said due to the Congress govt failures, crops are drying up due to a worsening irrigation crisis, with the Medigadda barrage — part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project — left unrepaired for 15 months due to Revanth Reddy’s “blind hatred” for former CM K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR). “Crops in thousands of acres were destroyed, and farmers are forced to use their fields to graze cattle,” he said, questioning why the governor’s speech ignored these pressing issues.
KTR said the people are beginning to see through the Congress govt’s “deception” of farmers and its plunge into debt and corruption. “The governor’s speech was an attempt to cover up these failures,” he said, predicting a strong public backlash when the time comes.