Calls for Emergency Assembly Session to Address Real Issues
Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP on Tuesday dismissed the verbal sparring and public debate challenge between BRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy as a staged political drama meant to distract people from core issues plaguing the state.
In a sharp statement, BJP State Chief Spokesperson and Media in-charge, N.V. Subash, termed KTR’s challenge to Revanth Reddy for a public debate at the Press Club as “a frivolous stunt” staged at a time when the Chief Minister was away in New Delhi. “If this is not political drama by the BRS, then what is?” he asked. “Debates on governance and performance belong in the Assembly, not on street corners or media platforms.”
Subash said both Congress and BRS are enacting theatrics to mislead the public, even as they are jointly responsible for the state’s financial crisis. “Revanth Reddy himself admitted that his government inherited a debt burden of over ₹4 lakh crore. While that’s no excuse for failing to deliver on poll promises, it exposes the BRS’s claims of good governance as hollow,” he said.
The BJP leader said that BRS, after securing separate statehood in 2014, squandered Telangana’s resources through short-sighted policies, rampant corruption, and divisive appeasement politics. “No state has witnessed such caste- and community-based appeasement as Telangana did under the BRS regime,” Subash alleged.
He also accused KTR of trying to divert public attention from ongoing investigations, including the phone tapping scandal and irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project. “These public debates are a smokescreen to escape scrutiny. Meanwhile, the Congress government seems content with mere media optics, despite ordering probes into BRS’s misrule.”
Subash demanded that both Congress and BRS stop indulging in headline-hunting drama. “If they are serious about accountability and governance, let them convene an emergency session of the Assembly. Let all parties place their facts on the table in front of the people’s representatives—not cameras.”
He further criticized successive governments for curtailing Assembly sessions to a few days. “Issues of public interest deserve in-depth debates, not token discussions squeezed between weekends. The people of Telangana deserve substance, not spectacle,” he said.
