Congress will form govt at Centre: CM Revanth

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday claimed that his Congress is going to form the next government at the Centre.

Addressing a corner meeting as part of the campaign for party candidate D. Nagender in the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, he exuded confidence that the Congress will wrest the seat from the BJP.

“Secunderabad constituency’s history shows that the party which wins the seat forms the government at the Centre. This time, the Congress will win this seat and form the government at the Centre,” he said. Nagender, a former minister and sitting BRS MLA from Khairatabad, joined the Congress last month and the party fielded him from Secunderabad, where Union Minister and state BJP chief G. Kishan Reddy is seeking re-election.

Revanth Reddy recalled that in 2004 when Congress candidate Anjan Kumar Yadav defeated BJP’s Bandaru Dattatreya, the Congress came to power at the Centre. He predicted that this would be repeated in the May 13 elections.

The Chief Minister also stated that after winning the Secunderabad seat, Nagender will get a key position at the Centre. He said though the BJP leaders who won from this constituency became ministers at the Centre, they did nothing for the city.

He alleged that Kishan Reddy failed to get any assistance from the Centre when Hyderabad was hit by floods.