Overview
- This week K. T. Rama Rao intensified a multi-day campaign of public meetings accusing the state Congress government of betraying farmers, students, women and weaker sections and promising political and legal support to affected families.
- He renewed specific charges that the government is forcibly acquiring assigned lands from Dalit, tribal and poor farmers for industrial projects, citing the Lagacherla dispute and alleging police cases and harassment of villagers.
- KTR said core welfare programmes rolled out under BRS have been cut or delayed, naming Rythu Bandhu, pension and fee reimbursements and the Mahalakshmi women’s scheme as examples of promised benefits that have not reached eligible recipients.
- He blamed the state’s economic direction for a sharp real-estate slump and rising liabilities, alleging nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of borrowing in the last two-and-a-half years and saying the chief minister’s frequent Delhi visits produced few concrete gains.
- The BRS has moved from accusation to organisation by urging cadres to work the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, launch a digital membership drive and prepare legal cases against officials and developers, a strategy meant to protect voters and shape the next electoral fight while drawing on the party’s decade-long governance record.