Hyderabad: Telangana Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud on Monday intensified his attack on the BJP. He accused the party of winning elections using bogus votes and dared Union Minister Bandi Sanjay to face a public debate. Speaking at a key meeting of party workers in Karimnagar district, Goud asked, “Can Bandi Sanjay win an election without invoking God’s name?”
He criticised Sanjay’s tenure in the Union Cabinet, claiming Telangana received no benefits. Goud also questioned the BJP’s unfulfilled promise from 2014 to create two crore jobs per year. “Where are those jobs?” he asked.
Mahesh Kumar Goud bogus votes charge expands into BC and public sector issues
Continuing his critique, Goud alleged that the Centre had handed over public sector undertakings to corporates like Ambani and Adani. He accused both Bandi Sanjay and Union Minister Kishan Reddy of blocking the BC reservation bill and betraying backward classes.
He also said the BJP’s “core agenda” was to divide communities, especially Hindus and Muslims. Goud claimed that Sanjay even tried to stir communal sentiment through cricket. “Can Sanjay, Etela Rajender or Arvind clearly explain their stance on BC reservations before the media?” he challenged.
Turning to state politics, Goud defended the Congress padayatra, calling it a traditional method of connecting with people. He said the party was fulfilling its six guarantees, citing the subsidised fine rice scheme as a “historic welfare move.”
He predicted that the BRS would collapse before the next elections and mocked K.T. Rama Rao with a pointed remark: “Ask Kavitha what her Panchayati is all about.” He said the BRS’s image had fractured “into four pieces.”
Finally, Goud accused the BJP of “murdering democracy” using fake votes. He claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term was won through election manipulation. In Karimnagar town alone, he alleged, “40 bogus votes were registered under a single shed.”
