Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to create two types of citizens: those who have the right to vote and others who do not have it.
He also accused PM Modi of “conspiring” to win elections by deleting votes through SIR.
Addressing a meeting of ruling Congress MLAs and other leaders here, he likened the INDIA bloc stir against SIR to the agitation against the Simon Commission during the freedom movement.
Attacking the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged large-scale deletion of votes during SIR, he said that while the slogan was ‘Simon, go back’ then, it is ‘Gyanesh, go back’ now.
“PM Modi will create two types of citizens in this country. One, the rich who have voting rights. Second, the poorest of the poor who do not have the right to vote. Who are those poor? Adivasis, Dalits, minorities and women. Since they are against the Modi government, if their votes are removed, what will they do? The conspiracy is to form government once again by securing the votes of those who have the right. That is the SIR,” he said.
He told the Congress leaders that at least 10,000 party workers from the state should attend the party’s protest rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on November 1 on the SIR row, among others.
