Congress disappointed over its failure to restrict BRS: KTR

KTR criticizes Congress for failing to limit BRS's success in recent municipal elections, highlighting their own poor opposition performance.

HYDERABAD

Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao observed that the ruling Congress is not completely satisfied with the results of elections held in 116 municipalities and 7 municipal corporations, as they could not restrict BRS as planned.

In an informal chat with newspersons here on Saturday, he said the fight put up by the BRS ranks had enabled the party to get more wards than the numbers expected by the ruling party. Despite the ruling party’s calculation, the BRS leadership was hoping to get a majority of wards in about 30 municipalities but it could not go beyond 17. The party also would also stand a chance to bag a few more municipalities where no party could get the required majority.

He stated that he was not aware of how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were claiming about putting up a good performance. They had secured lesser vote share and number of wards compared to the past this time. The BJP could not win even one municipality though its national president and a Chief Minister had campaigned at some places.

The BRS leader alleged that the Congress had pumped in money on a large-scale. The results of gram panchayat and municipal elections were a fitting lesson to all those who dismissed the BRS after the Lok Sabha elections.

On the ex officio members, Mr. Rama Rao said the government had no clarity as the District Collectors spoke one thing and the Chief Secretary another. He sought to know how many seats the Congress had won in municipal and other local bodies’ elections, when it was in the opposition and how many seats the Congress could win in GHMC when Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was the TPCC president and a MP from Malkajigiri.