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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked voters in Telangana to defeat parties that are run by families, dynasties and follow anti-democratic practices.
Addressing a largely attended rally at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad, Modi said all the leading contenders in the fray — Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the AIMIM — fit the above criterion. It was the BJP alone which was different, he said.
“You might not like Modi, but if you like democracy and want peaceful development, the challenge before you is to finish family rule in one stroke on December 7”, the Prime Minister said claiming that all the four mentioned parties are a danger to Democracy.
Referring to Telangana, he asked the youth, why did you ask for a separate State? Why so many young people sacrificed their lives? Not for giving one family to loo the State, isn’t it? Is the TRS a family party or not? Is it not the murder of Democracy? he said.
Modi said the 130-year-old Congress, where great leaders sacrificed to build the party, is being run by one dynasty. “The TDP, founded by NT Rama Rao, to defend the Telugu pride and anti-Congress plank has been placed Rahul Gandhi’s lap by its leader N Chandrababu Naidu for narrow and opportunistic gains. Isn’t the AIMIM not a family-run party,” said Modi.
Referring to Rahul’s constant jibe’s that TRS is Modi’s Team-B, the PM said in that Karnataka he used to say the Janata Dal Secular (JD-S) was the Team-B of the BJP. When the results came, it was the Congress which propped up HD Kumaraswamy and the JD(S) into power, thus demonstrating which was its real Team-B.
On reservation
On the issue of the TRS regime promising 12 per cent reservations to minorities, Modi said the Supreme Court has put a ceiling, therefore KCR’s proposal means only a cut in existing reservations to SC/STs and OBCs. The BJP leader said, “Vote-bank politics will not help Vikas (development), nor change people’s life.”
The PM charged that the KCR government’s decision to sail alone in development programmes was affecting people’s interests. He cited the construction of houses. “While Telangana government could provide only 5000 homes in five years, the NDA government handed over keys to 1.25 crore pucca houses to people in the same period. They celebrated Diwali in their homes,” Modi said.
Similarly, in the Ayushman Bharat Yojana (health Insurance) scheme, three lakh people benefited in the last four months, but none was from Telangana as the CM decided not to join.
Comparing the performance with the UPA-I and II’s rule for 10 years, Modi said the total number of houses handed over were 18, 000 in urban areas, whereas in four years, the NDA government gave 12 lakh. By March 2019 the number will be 25 lakhs, he said.
The PM promised that by 2022 when India will be 75, every family will have a pucca home, with a water, electricity and LPG connection, a toilet and the owner will be the woman of the family and not the man.
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