Hyderabad, Nov 29 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday exuded confidence that the Mayor of Hyderabad will be a BJP candidate.
The massive presence of people during his road show in the city earlier in the day indicated that Hyderabad will have a BJP Mayor, he told reporters after the road show, conducted as part of campaigning for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, scheduled to be held on December 1.
Mr Shah, who had offered prayers at Bhagyalakshmi temple near Charminar before the road show, thanked the people of the city for according a huge welcome.
Alliances between political parties were common, but why the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has a secret alliance with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, he asked.
Mr Shah appealed to the people to support the saffron party, if they want good governance and development and assured that if the party wins the polls, all the illegal encroachments on "nalas" (drainage canals) and lakes would be removed.
Mr Shah said unlike the TRS, BJP fulfills the promises it makes to the people, adding that corruption would also end, if the party was voted to power.
Describing Hyderabad as mini India, he said that if the BJP was given a chance, it would convert the city into a global IT hub, by bringing more IT companies to the city.
Denying the TRS charge that the Centre did not extend the flood assistance, the union Minister said the Centre had given Rs 500 crore twice for the purpose.
He said the state government was not implementing Central schemes like Ayushman Bharat for political purposes. The Centre had extended assistance for construction of 1.30 lakh houses for the poor, added Mr Shah.
Taking a jibe at Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Union Minister said that Mr Rao would know about the Central assistance, if the latter had attended the Secretariat.
More than seven lakh people had suffered following the recent floods and torrential rains in Hyderabad and flood water had entered scores of houses, noted Mr Shah.
Why did Mr Rao and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaiasi not come to the affected areas reeling under the floods then, he asked.
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