Hyderabad: Advisor to the Telangana Government Mohammed Ali Shabbir dismissed the BRS Silver Jubilee meeting held in Warangal as a complete “flop show,” likening it to a poorly made film with a terrible script and an even worse actor.
Speaking at a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan alongside TPCC President Mahesh Kumar Goud, Shabbir Ali said that BRS President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao had once again staged a drama filled with lies and theatrics that no one was willing to watch anymore.
“The BRS cinema has flopped, and KCR’s drama has bombed at the box office,” quipped Shabbir Ali. He described KCR’s speech at Warangal as a bundle of lies, far removed from reality. He backed TPCC President Mahesh Kumar Goud’s open challenge to KCR for a public debate, asking KCR to compare Congress’s 15-16 months of achievements with his ten years in power. “If KCR has any courage left, he should accept the challenge,” he said.
Shabbir Ali further stated that KCR had no moral right to criticise the Gandhi family. “It is said that if you spit towards the sky, it falls back on your face. KCR should remember that,” he remarked, highlighting that while KCR once praised Sonia Gandhi as ‘Telangana Talli’, he now displayed selective amnesia for political convenience.
Accusing KCR of duplicity, Shabbir Ali said, “He calls me ‘Shabbir Bhai’ in public but engineered defections behind the scenes to snatch the Leader of Opposition post from me.” He also recalled KCR’s unfulfilled promise to appoint a Dalit Chief Minister, pointing out how KCR could not even tolerate Bhatti Vikramarka as Dalit Leader of Opposition.
Taking a dig at KCR’s claims of Hyderabad’s development, Shabbir Ali said it was the Congress government that introduced Metro Rail to Hyderabad, while the BRS regime contributed nothing significant in a decade, except empty promises. He added that it was the Congress government that resumed and expanded the Metro network after regaining power.
On agriculture, Shabbir Ali said that farmers were treated like criminals under KCR’s rule for growing paddy. In contrast, under the Congress government, Telangana was achieving record paddy production, thanks largely to the irrigation projects initiated during the earlier Congress era. He mocked the collapse of the Kaleshwaram project, describing it as a sandcastle that disintegrated within months.
Comparing KCR’s rare public appearances to frogs emerging during the rains, he said, “Once in a while, KCR hops out of his farmhouse, croaks a few criticisms against Congress, and disappears again.”
Mocking the turnout at the Warangal meeting, Shabbir Ali said, “It was less of a political gathering and more of a catering event — Rs 500 and a chicken biryani, or the deluxe package: Rs 300, a quarter, and one chicken biryani. With such attractive offers, no wonder they managed to herd some people into the venue.”
He also noted the glaring absence of women at the event. “Women did not attend because they are genuinely satisfied under the Congress government. Our welfare schemes and governance have restored their faith. They had no reason to waste their day attending KCR’s circus,” he concluded.
