Telangana: KTR ends Lok Sabha campaign, says Modi's 'metre is down'

HYDERABAD: On the last leg of his campaigning for TRS candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, TRS working president K T Rama Rao on Tuesday said it was certain that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have to step down after the polls. “KCR will play an important role at the Centre,” K T Rama Rao said during a road show in Nalgonda Lok Sabha constituency from where the party has fielded Vemireddy Narasimha Reddy.

The Lok Sabha polls in Telangana will be held on April 11.

KTR said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would be able to play a significant role if the party won 16 seats in Telangana. “If with just two MPs, he could achieve a separate Telangana state, he can do much more with 16 MPs,” he said.

“Modi’s metre is on the downward swing. He will have to give up his PM’s chair,” KTR said, adding that the Federal Front was certain to come to power at the Centre.

The TRS president said the party was not the ‘B’ team of either the Congress or the BJP as was being alleged by the two national parties. “We are the ‘A’ team of the people of Telangana,” he said. KTR targeted the Congress party’s Nalgonda Lok Sabha candidate Uttam Kumar Reddy for attack saying leaders like him had refused to come forward to fight for the cause of Telangana.

K T Rama Rao said the TRS government had taken up several developmental and welfare schemes. He said after the elections, the government would release Rs 5 lakh to economically poor families for construction of their house if they had land.