HYDERABAD: The ruling TRS has started playing the “benefit and loss” card in its campaigning to corner BJP and woo voters in the Huzurabad assembly constituency going to the by-poll on October 30.
Finance minister T Harish Rao, who is spearheading the campaign for the ruling party, is telling the voters that if Eatala Rajender wins it would only benefit BJP and that the people of Huzurabad would be at loss as Eatala, as an opposition MLA, cannot do much for the welfare and development of the constituency.
“Has Eatala promised any major project or welfare scheme for Huzurabad constituency if he is voted to victory? People of Huzurabad should think whether they were benefited by TRS or BJP and they stand to benefit from which of the parties until the next assembly elections. You did not get the promised Rs 15 lakh in your bank accounts from the BJP government? Do not trust Eatala, he is lying to get votes,” Harish Rao said during his campaign on Sunday.
“But if Gellu Srinivas Yadav of TRS wins, it will benefit the people of the constituency. TRS will be in the government for the next two years and would be able to not only continue all its existing welfare schemes but may also bring in new schemes and spend money for development of the constituency,” he added. Harish Rao also promised the people of Mamidalapalli village in Veenavanka mandal that he would ensure development in the village, if 90% of the votes were polled in favour of Srinivas Yadav.Also, a victory of TRS might force state BJP leaders to exert pressure on the Modi-government at the Centre to reduce prices of petrol, diesel and gas, and stop privatisation of public sector undertakings, which would snatch away the reservations of SCs, STs and BCs.
Eatala too appealed to the people to take revenge against CM KCR and the ruling TRS. “KCR promised to make a Dalit as CM but did not do it. Now he has come with Dalit Bandhu with an eye on votes,” Rajender said.
