Telangana Chief
Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday said that he has no desire to become
the Prime Minister.Addressing an election rally, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) President said that he wants to see a non-Congress, non-BJP government at
the Centre to address the real problems of the country which both the national
parties have failed to solve in last 70 years.KCR, as Rao is widely known, said
he would like to contribute to bring a qualitative change in the national
politics.Urging people to elect 16 Lok Sabha candidates of TRS (leaving
Hyderabad for its ally MIM), he said only TRS can work to safeguard the state's
interests and get the state's rights.KCR demanded that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi should apologize to the people of Telangana for speaking lies. He was
referring to Modi's claim at a BJP rally in Hyderabad on Monday that the Centre
had given Rs 35,000 crore to Telangana for various projects.The TRS chief dared
Modi to prove this. He said Telangana was contributing Rs 1 lakh crore to the
Centre's share in taxes every year while the Centre was giving only Rs 24,000
crore to the state. "The state is giving you Rs 76,000 crore," he
said.KCR took exception to Modi's personal remarks about him and said the Prime
Minister had stooped to the level of a village sarpanch.He said both the BJP
and the Congress hurl accusations at each other to divert the nation's
attention from their failures and also the real issues like poverty,
unemployment and remunerative prices for farmers."One says PM 'chor hai'
and the other says 'maa beta zamanat pe hai'. Do people want this?" he
asked.