Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on friday attacked the ruling congress party in telangana for its "hypocrisy" regarding defections. The main opposition party in the state stated that while the congress had promised in its lok sabha election manifesto to make defection automatically result in disqualification from the assembly or Parliament, it was still forcing BRS MPs and MLAs to defect to its side in Telangana. 

In a letter addressed to rahul Gandhi, the leader of the congress, BRS leader T. harish rao expressed his disbelief that the party had promised in its manifesto to pass legislation disqualifying defecting MLAs or MPs, but in telangana, it had lured MLAs elected on BRS tickets to the ruling party and awarded them mp tickets.
 
He asserted that it has become the Congress' custom to deceive voters with election promises and then forget them. He cited the Congress's repeated failure to carry out its campaign promises in 2004 and 2009, when it won both the national and state legislatures and took power in Andhra Pradesh.
 
He said, "The congress also made a lot of promises in telangana in 2023 to win power, but they later forgot all of them."
 
The congress committed to change the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution and automatically disqualify an mla or mp for defection—that is, for abandoning the original party on which they were elected—in their manifesto, which was made public on Friday.
 
"However, recent events in telangana have shed light on the glaring hypocrisy within the party's ranks," Rao stated, adding that "the reality in telangana tells a different story altogether" .
 
It stated that two MLAs and three MPs from telangana switched from the BRS to the state's ruling party in the three weeks before the manifesto was released. The latest example of this self-serving conduct was on march 30, when Ghanpur Station mla Kadiyam srihari and his daughter defected from the BRS to the Congress.

A few weeks before, Khairatabad mla Danam Nagender, who had been elected on a BRS platform, had taken a similar turn and joined the Congress. In the past month and a half, three MPs who were elected on the BRS party symbol—Venkatesh Netha Borlakunta from Peddapalle, B.B. Patil from Zaheerabad, and Ranjith reddy from Chevella—have also joined the congress, demonstrating the party's disdain for the very ideals it professes to uphold.
 

 
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G GOWTHAM

06/04/2024 11:19 AM