Congress should first implement farm loan waivers in states it rules, says Telangana minister KT Rama Rao

Responding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Warangal declaration’, Telangana minister K T Rama Rao Saturday said that his party should first implement farm loan waivers and schemes like ‘Rythu Bandhu’ in states it rules like Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan to show the country they could do it.

Rao wondered in what capacity Gandhi had come to Telangana. “Mom (Sonia Gandhi) is the party chief, he is a dummy. The Congress is an outdated party. If the Congress is so pro-farmer, why did it lose in Punjab? There is nothing new in the declaration he made yesterday. The Congress had promised loan waiver of Rs 2 lakh in 2018 also. They lost then and they will continue to lose. He says that despite knowing that it will harm the Congress, the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) created Telangana state. Congress did not give Telangana, people fought and got it. The TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) does not have to be a B’ orC’ team, we stand on our own,” the minister, who holds the municipal administration & urban development, industries & commerce and information technology portfolios, said in Warangal.