Former chief minister and Telangana movement leader K Chandrashekar Rao will not attend the State Formation Day celebrations to be held on Sunday. In an eight-page open letter addressed to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, KCR has declined the invitation from the State government to participate in the official celebrations marking 10 years of Telangana State formation on June 2.
He expressed his dissent over the Congress government’s attempts to undermine sacrifices of Telangana movement and martyrs in Telangana State formation in an attempt to portray itself as the messiah who delivered the State.
“We are protesting against the Congress tendencies that are insulting the existence of Telangana. The formation of the State is the result of a long people’s struggle and the sacrifices of the martyrs. I am protesting against the poverty of the sentiments of the Congress, which is being propagated at the mercy of the party,” he alleged.
He said his participation in the celebrations organised by the government was not justified in the wake of allegations that the Congress government is taking the State in a retrograde direction.
“We are sorry to inform you that the BRS is not participating in the celebrations that you are organizing. We hope that in the future, the CM will shun such an attitude and strive for true progress and welfare, fulfil all the election promises at the earliest and win the respect of the people,” KCR said in his letter.
KCR accused that the Gun Park Martyrs Memorial was a testimony to the Congress’ repression in which 369 people were killed in the first phase of the separate Telangana movement. He said the Congress’s brutality in preventing even the unveiling of the Martyrs Memorial had remained in the pages of Telangana’s history.
He alleged that the Congress party was definitely responsible for taking the lives of hundreds of young people in the final phase of the separate Telangana movement. He said the formation of the TRS party was a historic attempt to correct the injustice done by the Congress to Telangana.
He also said the formation of TRS with the aim of achieving Telangana in a parliamentary and peaceful manner was a turning point in the Telangana movement. KCR also criticised CM Revanth Reddy for not raising the slogan ‘Jai Telangana’ so far.
“People are objecting to your mental disability of not being able to utter the ‘Jai Telangana’ slogan, which is the lifeline of the people of Telangana,” he said. He also said the Telangana society would want the CM to come out of the anti-Telangana mentality and chant ‘Jai Telangana’.
KCR deplored that even after six months of becoming the Chief
