It’s Cong. that has tacit pact with BJP, alleges Harish Rao

HYDERABAD

Senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and former minister T. Harish Rao alleged that Telangana’s Congress leadership had a tacit understanding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and that was the reason why the Enforcement Directorate did not initiate the investigation into Revanth Reddy’s cash-for-votes case.

Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, he said the ED remained silent even after day-long raids on the residence of Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy here last year and the residence of Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka in New Delhi on charges of sending money to fund the Congress in the Income Tax Department’s Bihar Assembly elections.

He accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of misleading people regarding investment inflow into the state that around ₹3 lakh crore of investment is coming in 2024-25 and 2025-26. However, TSiPASS’s official website tells a different story; as investments in 2024-25 were only ₹13,700 billion so far and in 2025-26 were only ₹6,472 billion.

Reacting to the Prime Minister’s press conference ahead of voting for the Jubilee Hills by-election, the BRS leader said he wanted the voters to vote for the Congress based on the progress made by the Congress government during 2004-14 as it had nothing to claim to its credit during the last two years of rule. It was Mr. Revanth Reddy who called YS Rajasekhara Reddy and Sonia Gandhi as evil and called the ‘jalayagnam’ program a money printing mission.

He reminded people that till 2014, they experienced 12-hour power outages even in the domestic sector and power holidays in industries and how the BRS rule has changed the scenario of uninterrupted power supply to all categories of consumers, including the agricultural sector.

Regarding the debts incurred during the BRS rule, Mr. Harish Rao said that the Center was responding to a question asked by BJP MP M. Raghunandan Rao in Parliament on August 11, 2025, that the total debt during the BRS rule was Rs 2.8 lakh crore. The average growth rate of the State’s own tax revenue during 2014-23 was 15% and per capita income rose to ₹3.47 lakh.

Later in the evening, at a street corner meeting held at Ambedkar Nagar in Shaikpet in Jubilee Hills constituency, he said that BRS will stand between the bulldozer coming to their area to demolish houses and the people who supported Maganti Sunitha Gopinath in the by-election.