KTR Reacts On Reported Plan To Make Modi Contest From Mahabubnagar

Narayanpet/Hyderabad, Jan 24 (Maxim News): Working President of the National BRS party, son of the Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao, and Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, IT, and Industries, K.Tarak Rama Rao reacted on the reported plans to make Narendra Modi contest from Mahabubnagar Parliamentary Constituency in the next general elections. KTR said why the people should cast their votes for the Prime Minister.

He said that Telangana had been appealing to the Union government to address the River Krishna water sharing dispute and to accord, national status for the Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation (PRLI) scheme but the Centre was ignoring these for the last eight years, Why should the people then vote for the prime Minister, he asked.

He said that the BJP State unit failed to raise long pending issues of Telangana with the Union government. Since the BJP State Executive meeting was underway at Mahabubnagar, he wanted the BJP leaders to pass resolutions demanding national status for PRLi and to fix the River Krishna water dispute.

The Minister was speaking after laying the foundation for various development works, besides inaugurating facilities in the district at a total cost of Rs.196 crore. has made the comments as part of the routine comments against the BJP-led Central government, and launched a broadside against the BJP, charging it with pushing the farming community into crisis in the country and for contemplating taxes on farmers’ income. (Those big farmers who come under the Income Tax category)

He alleged that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Chairman Bibek Debroy had recommended a levy of income tax on farmers’ income in an article, he said, adding that farmers were already worried over rising input costs and poor prices for their yields.

KTR alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to double the farmer’s income by 2022, but instead, when farmers’ income was dwindling, the BJP government was preparing to levy income tax on them, how was this justifiable, he asked. (Maxim News)

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