BJP slams Telangana CM for mocking Nitin Nabin

The BJP on Wednesday slammed Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for mocking its national president Nitin Nabin, asserting that the Congress leader’s sycophancy and arrogance will meet its downfall with the defeat of his party in the upcoming polls in the state.

On Tuesday, Reddy dismissed Nabin’s call to party cadres to work for the BJP’s victory in the 2028 Telangana elections, saying it took 15 years for the saffron party to win the Assembly polls in West Bengal, and it would meet the same fate in Telangana.

“Recently, a guy came here, Nabin or whatever, I don’t really know his name. But he comes here and says the next government is theirs,” the chief minister said at an event in Hyderabad.

“You said the same thing about West Bengal. It took you 15 years (to form a government) in Bengal. Your tricks might have worked there because Mamata Banerjee was at the helm. But here, all our guys are ready, and they will crush you, Reddy said.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra termed Reddy’s remarks “objectionable and condemnable” and said they also reflect the Telangana chief minister’s “arrogance” and the “culture of the Congress”.

Reddy’s remarks also show how the Congress and leaders are committed to the “servitude of a single family”, Patra charged, in a veiled reference to the Gandhi family.

“Revanth Reddy, you are the chief minister of a state in India. You are a member of Congress, a well-known party. Do you know who the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s largest political party, is? If you do not know the president of the BJP, India’s largest political party, then I feel you are not a competent political worker,” the BJP MP told reporters here.