The Communist Party of India (CPI) State Secretary, Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao, has stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has no right to seek votes in Telangana. He made this statement while launching the Praja Poru Yatra at Bayyaram in Mahbubabad district on Saturday. According to him, the saffron party has failed to fulfill the assurances given to Telangana under the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, even after nine years. The CPI’s Praja Poru Yatra aims to expose the biased approach of the BJP-led Central government, referring to the pending assurances – rail coach factory in Kazipet, tribal university at Mulugu, and steel plant in Bayyaram.
Kunamneni further alleged that the Modi government is more concerned about benefiting Adanis and other corporate houses. He accused the Centre of harassing leaders who criticize it and conspiring to disqualify Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after he was found guilty by a court in Surat in connection with a defamation case over ‘Modi surname’ remarks.
The Praja Poru Yatra convenor, Takkalapally Srinivas Rao, appealed to party cadres to make the yatra successful. The yatra will crisscross six districts of erstwhile Warangal before culminating at Hanumakonda with a public meeting on April 5. Senior leaders Nedunuri Jyothy, B Vijayasaradhi, Karre Bikshapathi, Mekala Ravi, Ch Raja Reddy, T Mallikarjun rao and Raj Kumar were among others present. The CPI has been demanding the government to establish a steel plant at Bayyaram since it exposed the illegal mining of iron ore by Rakshana Steels in 2010.
