TRS is "B team" of BJP, Sangh Parivar, says Rahul Gandhi

Kosigi/Khammam: The TRS is the "B team" of Sangh Parivar and the BJP, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday and claimed the aim of K Chandrasekhar Rao's party and AIMIM is to ensure that his party is not able to defeat the BJP at the national level.

Sharing dais with TDP boss and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the first time after forging a 4-party alliance, Gandhi told an election rally in Telangana's Khammam that all promises made at the time of the bifurcation of AP would be fulfilled after a coalition of anti-BJP parties comes to power at the Centre.

The Congress president described the Khammam rally, also attended by its other alliance partners for the Telangana elections-- CPI and the Telangana Jana Samiti - as "historic" in state and national politics.

"First we will fight against Narendra Modis 'B team' (the TRS) and after that we will beat the 'A team' (the BJP- led NDA)," he asserted.

"The name of TRS is not Telangana Rashtra Samiti, its Telangana Rastriya Sangh Parivar. TRS is the B team of Sangh Parivar and the BJP. Don't foget this," he told an election rally at Kosigi in Mahabubnagar district, accusing caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's TRS of being in cahoots with the saffron party.

"Modi would not have indulged in anti-dalit, anti- adivasi and anti-minority activities had the Telangana chief minister not supported him. When we were fighting Modi on note ban, Land Acquisition Bill and saving farmers lands, TRS was supporting Modi, RSS and Sangh Parivar in Parliament," he said.

Gandhi said whether it was the TRS or Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM, their aim was to see to it that the Congress was not able to defeat the BJP at the national level, Rahul said.

"Both TRS and AIMIM want Narendra Modi to win elections again," he claimed.

The Congress leader alleged while every citizen of Telangana has a debt burden of Rs 60,000, the income of K T Rama Rao, son of TRS chief and a minister in the caretaker government, grew by 400 per cent in the last four years.

He said if TRS stands for the welfare of the people of Telangana, it should not support BJP.

Referring to Modi's remark at a public meeting in Nizamabad on November 27 that the Congress and TRS are "two sides of a coin", Gandhi wondered why then Rao and his party never criticised the Rafale deal and supported issues raised by the Congress.

"Modi promised two crore jobs to youth. KCR (Rao) promised one lakh jobs. I want to ask you how many jobs both gave," he said.

The Congress leader exuded confidence that his party will defeat the TRS in Telangana and BJP in the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh polls.

Rao promoted "family rule", Gandhi said, claiming the TRS leader "destroyed the dreams" of Telangana.