The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday celebrated Vijay Diwas to commemorate the announcement of process for statehood to Telangana on December 9, 2009, and calling off of the indefinite fast launched by party founder K. Chandrasekhar Rao on November 29 earlier demanding statehood to the region forcibly merged with Andhra in 1956. Speaking at an event organised at the party office here, senior leader T. Harish Rao said that there would not have been any December 9 (Vijay Diwas) and June 2 (statehood to Telangana) had there not been any Diksha Diwas on November 29 in 2009. While Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao had fought for statehood, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was “kowtowing to those who opposed statehood to Telangana.” Mr. Harish Rao and others paid tributes to the statue of Telugu Thalli and the portraits of B.R. Ambedkar and Prof. K. Jayashankar first. He alleged that Mr. Revanth Reddy had aimed a gun at those fighting for statehood to Telangana during the movement period and now he had changed the features of Telangana Talli statue. He criticised Mr. Revanth Reddy for naming a road in the Future City as Donald Trump road who had jailed Telugu people in the US. It was Mr. Revanth Reddy who had termed the then AICC president Sonia Gandhi as ‘Bali Devatha’ (a goddess seeking sacrifices) and now he was talking about building temples for her. The Congress party had returned to power in Telangana after Mr. Revanth Reddy had made false promises to people and betrayed them later. He alleged that a conspiracy was being hatched to relegate Telangana to backwardness again in the Congress rule. Party leaders B. Vinod Kumar, Md. Mahamood Ali, Banda Prakash, G. Devi Prasad and others spoke.
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