Tag : Parivaarvadi

Hyderabad: Well ahead of the high stakes assembly polls in Telangana next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday took apparent potshots at each other, even as the Telangana Chief Minister gave a miss to the former for the second time in a year during an official visit to his state. While Modi lashed out at family politics saying 'parivaarvadi' is democracy's "greatest enemy," Rao, who flew to Bengaluru to meet former PM HD Deve Gowda, said despite 'bhaashanbaazi' (rhetoric), industries were closing down, the nation's GDP was crashing and the rupee was falling drastically compared to the US dollar and said all sections of the society were suffering. Modi slammed "family-parties" in the country, including the ruling TRS in Telangana, without naming it, even as he expressed confidence the Bharatiya Janata Party would storm to power in the state in the next assembly elections, elated over its wins in two recent assembly bypolls in the state, besides putting up a very good show in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election in 2020. In another apparent jibe at KCR, as Rao is known, he said the "superstitious people can never do justice to Telangana's potential" and said that despite being a religious person, UP CM Yogi Adityanath believed in science. "The air of Telangana that I am experiencing after coming out of the airport here, and the scene that I am witnessing, when I see your enthusiasm in this heat, I can say that our struggle is paying off," Modi said while addressing party workers at the Begumpet airport, after arriving to attend an official engagement in Hyderabad. KCR, who is on a national tour with an apparent eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections ...