Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Tuesday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a public debate on the power supply situation in the State and said the Prime Minister should not lie for the sake of votes.
KCR was responding to Modi’s criticism that the people in the State are without electricity. Earlier in the day addressing an election rally in Nizamabad, Modi had charged the KCR Government with failure on all fronts, including ensuring availability of electricity to many people of the State.
Addressing an election meeting in Mahbubnagar on Tuesday, KCR said he is ready for a debate with Modi at any place of his choice. KCR, who claims to be providing the 24-hour free power to farmers and uninterrupted power supply to all households in the State as his major achievement, called Modi “an ignorant and lying Prime Minister”. Challenging the PM to show where was the power problem in the State, KCR said, “I never thought Modi was so ignorant PM. It is not appropriate for the Prime Minister to speak lies for the sake of votes,” he said.