Telangana Polls: KT Rama Rao cites Mahatma Gandhi, says 'Congress should have been disbanded after…'
Telangana Assembly Election 2023: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Saturday slammed the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and sought the ‘disbanding’ of Congress in a scathing attack on Opposition parties ahead of the Assembly election in Telangana. KT Rama Rao said that Congress was “the real white elephant" who should have been disbanded after India got Independence in 1947 from the British colonial rule.
The BRS leader said that the country had ‘suffered’ under Congress' "misrule and misadventures for the longest time". KT Rama Rao was reacting to Congress calling the Kaleswaram irrigation project in the state a ‘white elephant’.
"Congress was the real white elephant of the country. People have borne the brunt of Congress's misrule and misadventures for the longest time," he said.
Taking a swipe at Congress, Rama Rao said Mahatma Gandhi had favoured disbanding the grand old party post-Independence. "Unfortunately, its still there, therefore, lot of nuisance." Hindustan Times reports that on 27 January 1948, three days before his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi had reportedly written that Congress had "outlived its use" in its present form, should be disbanded and “flower into a Lok Sevak Sangh''.
The article appeared in a journal on February 2, 1948, titled 'His Last Will and Testament'. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels
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