Daijiworld Media Network - Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Jul 1: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday criticised Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over his remarks targeting BJP national president Nitin Nabin, accusing him of arrogance and claiming that the Congress would face defeat in the upcoming state elections.
The controversy began after Reddy on Tuesday questioned Nabin’s statement urging BJP workers to work towards forming the party’s government in Telangana in the 2028 Assembly elections.
Referring to the BJP’s rise in West Bengal, Reddy said it took the party 15 years to form a government there and claimed a similar situation would happen in Telangana.
“Recently, a person came here, Nabin or whatever, I don’t really know his name. But he comes here and says the next government is theirs,” Reddy said at an event in Hyderabad.
Responding to the remarks, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra called them “objectionable and condemnable” and said they reflected the Telangana chief minister’s arrogance and the “culture of the Congress”.
Patra questioned Reddy’s comments, saying a chief minister should know the president of the BJP, which he described as India’s largest political party.
He also accused the Congress of following the “servitude of a single family” and warned that leaders making dismissive remarks about political opponents had faced consequences in the past.
Referring to West Bengal politics, Patra said similar statements were made against BJP leaders earlier and claimed that people had rejected such approaches.
Hitting back at Reddy’s statement that the Congress would “crush” the BJP in Telangana, Patra said the BJP enjoys support among people and expressed confidence that the party would perform strongly in the state.
Another BJP spokesperson Prem Shukla described Reddy as an “arrogant” Congress leader and said the chief minister should recognise Nitin Nabin’s position as the BJP’s national president.
Shukla also compared Reddy’s remarks with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s defeat in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections, saying arrogance had led to its downfall.
He claimed the BJP would come to power in Telangana in 2028 under Nitin Nabin’s leadership and said the Congress government’s “politics of arrogance” would not last.