Hyderabad, August 16: Congress MP & former TPCC President Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy said that BJP Govt at the Centre and TRS Govt in Telangana have slowed down the pace of India’s growth in the last eight years. He said it was the vision of first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the follow-up by other Congress PMs which transformed the country into a force to reckon with. However, their efforts were being undermined by the present PM Modi and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) regimes.
He was speaking to media persons after participating in the 76th Independence Day celebrations in Hyderabad on Monday. He hoisted the national flag in Hill Ridge Colony, Hyderabad. Later, he participated in the ‘Azadi Ka Garvav Yatra’ along with AICC Secretary Nadeem Javed, TPCC Working Presidents Mahesh Kumar Goud, Dr. J. Geetha Reddy, and Anjan Yadav, Youth Congress President Shiv Sena, Minority Dept Chairman Shaik Abdullah Sohail, OBC Dept Chairman Nuthi Srikanth Goud and hundreds of Congress leaders and workers. Speaking to media persons later, Reddy said that he was proud to be a member of the Congress party which was at the forefront of the Indian independence movement and played a key role in India’s magnificent progress after independence.
He said those who came to power by questioning the contribution of the Congress party too are celebrating the diamond jubilee of the country’s independence. He said BJP and RSS have not made any contribution to the freedom movement. Instead, RSS found Savarkar apologized to the British Government and RSS members acted as British spies to sabotage the freedom movement. He said RSS did not hoist the national flag at its headquarters for 52 years. But today, on the completion of 75 years of independence, even RSS was forced to embrace the Tiranga, the national flag, designed and introduced by Congress leaders. Commenting on the Independence Day speech of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao at Golconda Fort today, Reddy said KCR did not mention anything about his failed promises.
