CM KCR to address 'mother of all meetings' on September 2

HYDERABAD: The ‘Pragathi Nivedana Sabha’ of TRS, which is being billed as the ‘mother of all meetings’ will have chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao speak for one-and-a-half hours – a departure from his usual 20-25 minutes long speeches as one had seen as chief minister at previous public meetings. Not only will Chandrasekhar Rao present to the people a report card of all the achievements of the TRS government, but he will also give the opposition parties a ‘befitting’ reply for their criticism of the government.

“The opposition parties have failed in playing a positive role in the state’s development. Instead, they filed 186 court cases which prevent the people from benefitting from government’s developmental plans,” Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha said here on Wednesday. For the public meeting that is to be held at Kongara Kalan at Ibrahimpatnam on the city outskirts, she said an estimated 25 lakh crowd of people will attend it. From every constituency, at least 25,000 people will attend it.

During an interaction with reporters here, Kavitha refused to answer questions on whether the government would go in for early polls or if it the TRS would have a tie-up with another party. Asked if the party would look for a post-poll tie up with the BJP or the Congress, she said TRS party chief was, as he announced earlier, for a non-Congress and non-BJP alliance to come to power at the centre. In reply to another question about a possibly aligning with the Congress or the BJP after the polls if such a situation came, Kavitha said the chief minister knows very well what to do. “Whatever he does, he does it in the interest of the state and the people,” she said.

When asked why chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was repeatedly meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the latter not acting on the demands, Kavitha said even other states have also been pursuing their demands with the centre repeatedly. To a question on how the Telangana CM was able to get an appointment with the Prime Minister so easily when other CMs were finding it difficult, she replied saying: “We asked for an appointment, and we got it.” “The state government maintains a good relationship with the Government of India. However, we are yet to get many things that we have asked for. One of the most important things is also an approval of the new zonal system by the centre. Only after this is done can we appoint special development officers for villages as the term of sarpanches has expired. The delay in getting approval will affect development,” she said.

“The BJP has five seats in the assembly now and in the next elections it may not even get even one,” Kavitha Kalvakuntla said in reply to a question on the performance of the political rivals of the TRS. She described the Congress to a distant rival.

In response to a question on why the CM did not think of taking opposition leaders along with him in his chartered flight to meet the PM to press for the state’s demands, Kavitha said since the Congress was interested in placing roadblocks for the state’s development, it would not have merited such a gesture from the chief minister. “The CM would definitely have reciprocated if the Congress showed interest in the development of the state instead of placing hurdles,” she said.

“You must remember that it was KCR who took all political parties into confidence and put the JAC together to fight for a separate Telangana state. It is his nature to take everyone along,” she pointed out.