TDP, BJP have cheated people of State: Raghuveera

The Congress party will strive for implementation of reservation in the private sector for the SCs, STs, minorities, and Backward Classes, and has exhorted like-minded parties to join hands with it to end the rule of the BJP and the TDP.

Addressing people from across the State who had come to join the party, along the BC Jana Sabha chief and former Congress Doctors’ Cell chairman G. Gangadhar, APCC president N. Raghuveera Reddy said it was the Congress that worked for the benefit of the BCs and brought several legislations for their uplift.

“The TDP has done nothing for the BCs, but used them to come to power,” he said.

Mr. Reddy said blaming the Congress entirely for the bifurcation of the State was not justifiable as many parties, including the TDP, the BJP, and the YSRCP, had given their tacit support for it.

“In fact, it was the Congress that had included several important clauses in the Act,” he claimed.

“The BJP and the TDP have failed to implement the clauses that had been included in the Act for the benefit of the new State,” he said.

Both the BJP and TDP had cheated the people of the State. “The TDP has made itself a laughing stock by quitting the Cabinet and staying with the NDA,” Mr. Reddy said. The PCC president said many leaders were keen on joining the Congress as it was the most relevant party to take on the Modi government.

‘Homecoming’

Dr. Gangadhar said it was like homecoming for him.

“I quit the Congress after bifurcation of the State. After observing the misrule of the TDP and the BJP for four years, I have decided to return to the Congress fold,” he said. Former Union Minister Pallam Raju and Rajya Sabha MP K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao were present.