Ahead of Priyanka Gandhi’s Hyderabad visit, KTR terms her 'political tourist'

Hyderabad, May 7 (IANS) Terming Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi "a political tourist", Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) working President and Telangana Minister K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday said that politicians who are unemployed are provoking the youth of the state.
He said that the parties which did not work for the welfare of people while in power are now preaching the state governments like Telangana which consistently ranked high in performance.

In a response to Priyanka Gandhi’s Telangana visit for a political rally on youth issues, KTR, as the leader is popularly known, sough to remind the Congress of its "decades-long history of failures.

With the Congress General Secretary is scheduled to address her maiden public rally and meeting in Hyderabad on Monday, KTR criticised the Congress for exploiting youth, and employment issues solely for its politics.

He said that the country would not have experienced an unemployment crisis if the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced an employment policy and worked like the BRS.

The minister said that the Telangana government under the leadership of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao provided employment to 2.2 lakh youth in the government and 22 lakh youth in the private sector.

He claimed that the Congress was at the end of its wits as it was away from power for the past 10 years, and cited this as the reason for the political unemployed of the Congress trying to provoke the youth of Telangana.

Asserting that they will not be successful in the vicious attempts, he asked them to compare the number of posts filled by the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh and by the Telangana government after formation of the state.

KTR cited the bitter experiences and injustice done to Telangana youth in interviews even after clearing written exams with merit. He demanded Priyanka Gandhi to apologize on behalf of Congress for taking the lives of hundreds of Telangana youth during the separate Telangana movement, by delaying the formation of the state for their political gains.

The minister said that Hyderabad is a global city which welcomes lakhs of tourists everyday and it also welcomes political tourists like Priyanka Gandhi. He termed the Congress a "sinking ship" and suggested Priyanka Gandhi to turn her political tour into an educational tour. He asked her to witness the growth of Telangana and learn by seeing the world class roads, flyovers, cable bridge and offices of the top MNCs in Hyderabad.

KTR also suggested she ask fellow Congressmen what people like superstar Rajinikanth spoke about Hyderabad. He invited her to understand local conditions and learn from what she sees here.

--IANS
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