Congress, BJP have joined hands: T Harish Rao
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Congress, BJP have joined hands: T Harish Rao
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HYDERABAD: Finance minister T Harish Rao on Sunday said that the Congress and BJP have joined hands for the Dubbak bypoll, hence, instead of fighting the BJP, the Congress is attacking the TRS. Interacting with people in Dubbak, he said the Congress and the saffron party are on the same page. “Though AICC leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are taking on the BJP at the national level, the local leaders are in no mood to fight the BJP and are instead attacking TRS,” he said. Stating that TPCC in-charge Manickam Tagore had bitterly criticised the new farm bills when he was in Dubbak, he said the criticism did not really translate into action in the form of protests. “Is it right to criticise chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao without slamming the BJP for the farm bills? Tagore should learn from the state government as the state is supplying free power to farmers round-the-clock, but the Congress-ruled states still do not have free power for farmers,” Harish said. “Tagore must realise that in the last assembly elections, Congress had won just 26,000 votes, before dreaming of winning 79 seats,” he said, and pointed out that though the bypolls have been announced, the Congress is strangely silent.
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The Times of India
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2020-10-05
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Hyderabad