KCR-lead Bharat Rashtra Samithi holds mega rally with national pitch
A clarion call for regime change at the Centre by dislodging BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls was sounded by prominent opposition leaders in the first mega rally of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Wednesday.
Taunting the Central government over a host of issues including those on interstate water and development issues, Rao in his address said Prime Minister Narendra Modi would go home following polls to Lok Sabha next year.
If a ‘BRS proposed government’ was to capture power, Centre’s initiatives like the ‘LIC disinvestment’ and the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in Armed forces would be scrapped. Welfare measures in Telangana like the Rythu Bandhu for farmers would be implemented across the nation. Free power shall be provided to farmers, he said.
The colourful rally galvanised the BRS workers who shouted slogans hailing the party-led regime’s welfare schemes in Telangana and peppy political songs praised Rao’s ‘national’ emergence. Rao said: “I am directly telling Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji. Your policy is privatisation. Our policy is nationalisation.” He slammed the BJP and Congress alleging that both the parties are responsible for interstate water issues.
The rally saw the participation of an estimated 2 lakh people, according to a party leader and the big ticket event featured huge cut-outs, betting on KCR for a national resurgence against the Saffron party. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said Prime Minister commented in his party’s national executive meet that only 400 days are left for the 2024 LS election. The ruling BJP has started ‘counting its days’ and it would not last a day more in power after its present tenure, Yadav said.
The mega public meeting was the first after Telangana Rashtra Samithi recently rechristened itself as BRS. By bringing in several leaders in a show of strength against the Saffron party, the BRS has taken its first steps towards joining forces with like-minded parties at the national level. Also, it is expected to help BRS to take on the BJP within the state more strongly. Aam Aadmi Party’s Arvind Kejriwal, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, CPI’s D Raja and Marxist party’s top leader Pinarayi Vijayan were those who took part.
Addressing the rally, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said: “Now, the country wants a change. People came to know that these people (NDA government) did not come to change the country. They just came to ruin the country. The 2024 elections are an opportunity for you (people). Ten years is over. How long will you wait?”
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan called for a ‘new resistance’ to protect secularism, democracy and the Constitution. People should unite against the communal agenda that seeks to divide the country.
