‘You can win elections on divisive politics but its expiry date has come’: Revanth Reddy at Adda

On Congress’s performance

We couldn’t signifier the authorities but we were palmy successful forming the nationalist cognition that Modi has lied to citizens for the past 10 years, that helium created problems for farmers with the 3 workplace laws, that helium tried to alteration the Constitution and tried to bash distant with reservation. We exposed each these

hidden agendas of Modi and made the nationalist recognize these issues. People present cognize the BJP’s hidden agenda. Their predetermination docket is antithetic from their hidden agenda.

On lessons for the Congress from June 4

The Congress has to alteration its format. Our leaders are inactive playing a Test match. Today, we person a 20-20 format; we person to upgrade our format oregon different redefine it. The BJP is doing hit-out oregon get-out politics. We are not susceptible of becoming that ruthless. If you privation to person transactional relations, you tin bash everything. The BJP, its politicians, person a transactional relation. Congress politicians are not similar this.

On the authorities of polarisation

This is thing that each person should deliberation astir due to the fact that divisive authorities is not bully for the country. You tin triumph (elections) with divisive authorities but taking the state guardant is hard with this benignant of politics. But the BJP doesn’t care. I person been saying this for a agelong clip and I americium inactive saying this: Every medicine, nary substance however bully it is, whether it is for Covid oregon thing else, has an expiry date. So that expiry day has travel (of divisive politics).

On whether the Congress is forced to bash akin politics

No, the Congress has a nationalist approach, nationalist perception. From 2004 to 2014, we were successful powerfulness — Rahul Gandhi was seldom seen. But from 2014 to 2024, determination were 3 elections and adjacent aft losing successful each 3 elections, Rahul Gandhi did not permission the field. He walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, 4,000 km successful implicit 150 days. Did immoderate nationalist person ever instrumentality specified a travel to scope retired to the public?

Then, (tell me) which household is trying to rob this country? After removing Rahul Gandhi from Tughlaq Road, helium had nary location to spell to. In villages, successful each country of India, each the people, including the adivasis, were fixed a location by Indira Gandhi but determination is nary country for Indira Gandhi’s grandson to enactment in. Still, determination are corruption charges against the Gandhi family. They (BJP) accidental they person made ‘this authorities and that state’ an ATM. It’s the PM, not conscionable a idiosyncratic oregon a tiny politician, who is saying this. Narendra Modi himself said that the Gandhi household has made Telangana an ATM. If the Gandhi household needs money, past wherefore did they effort to go martyrs?

On the Telangana model of improvement The Telangana exemplary is to springiness adjacent accidental to everyone. The Telangana exemplary is bully governance — welfare and development. Welfare unsocial is not good and if you lone absorption connected improvement and bash nary welfare, past the mediocre won’t get anything. So determination indispensable beryllium a balance.

This is bully governance. Sonia Gandhiji has fixed six guarantees connected September 17, 2023.  I person fixed 1 much warrant — the seventh guarantee. That is democracy… So, the Telangana attack is the Congress approach.

From 2004 to 2014, Sonia Gandhi was the chairperson of the UPA, Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi advertised the Gujarat exemplary crossed the satellite successful those 10 years. The past Union authorities gave truthful overmuch enactment to Modiji… each state, whether it was ruled by the Opposition oregon not… was fixed enactment for development… beryllium it permissions, budgetary support… That is wherefore determination could beryllium a Gujarat model.

But today, Narendra Modi, being the Prime Minister, is simply ignoring Opposition states. He is trying his level champion to decorativeness each Opposition states. Why? That is the Gujarat model… If immoderate concern comes to Telengana… if an capitalist gets acceptable to put successful Telengana… the PMO tells them to spell to Gujarat. Semiconductor… incentives kiske liye diya hua hai… He is the Prime Minister of India but Modiji is behaving similar the PM of Gujarat. Because for him each concern and each approach… is Gujarat. We were successful powerfulness for 10 years, but did not make immoderate occupation for Gujarat.

On the North-South debate

Why are you calling it North-South? Why can’t it beryllium South-North? We (the South) person contributed a lot. For instance, if I wage 1 rupee from my state, I get 40 paisa from the Government of India. Whereas if Bihar pays 1 rupee, they get Rs 7.6, and Uttar Pradesh gets Rs 2.73. They are distributing it based connected population. When the Government of India announced household planning, each confederate authorities implemented it. When the Government of India has fixed immoderate absorption oregon acquisition oregon order, being bully citizens of India, we person implemented that but you are punishing us. Why? That is wherefore when NITI Aayog came to Telangana, I told them that 50 per cent (of returns) should beryllium connected colonisation and the different 50 per cent should beryllium connected performance.

Second, determination is present a treatment connected delimitation and expanding seats. Our past census was successful 2011. If we instrumentality the census of 2025, past to signifier a Central government, it volition not beryllium indispensable to inquire for a ballot of the South. If they privation to summation up to 800-plus seats, the South is going down from 123 seats. So past our relation (will become) negligible. Why volition we beryllium in silence? We person to rise our dependable erstwhile idiosyncratic is taking distant our right. If they effort to instrumentality distant our rights, past people the South-North statement volition automatically travel up.

On the contented of corporates in politics

In each place, determination is nary treatment connected this state without Adani and Ambani, from crony capitalism to PSUs. All the navaratnas are being taken implicit by those people. Before Modiji became Prime Minister successful 2014, I deliberation India had 16 premier ministers. They had borrowed lone Rs 55 lakh crore. In this 10-year tenure alone, Modi has borrowed Rs 133 lakh crore. Today, the Indian authorities has Rs 188 lakh crore debt. Of the borrowed Rs 133 lakh crore, helium waived disconnected Rs 16 lakh crore indebtedness of a firm company. If we waive the indebtedness of farmers, we are questioned. They person problems if wealth is distributed to the mediocre but nary implicit the Rs 16 lakh-crore waiver to corporates. If that magnitude was fixed to farmers, unemployed workers oregon women, determination would person been truthful overmuch prosperity.

On the BRS and the caste census

I don’t spot immoderate quality betwixt the BJP and BRS (Bharat Rashtra Samithi). KTR (KT Rama Rao) has been successful Delhi for 2 days. The anti-corruption bureau has asked support from the Governor (to question KTR) and the record has been pending for 15 days. KCR (K Chandrasekhar Rao) has played specified a relation successful Maharashtra, truthful wherefore didn’t they tract a azygous campaigner successful Maharashtra this time? To combat Maharashtra elections, it (BRS) was made a nationalist enactment from a determination party. They had done a batch of campaigning successful Maharashtra. Today, KCR is not adjacent looking backmost (at Maharashtra). If helium is against Modiji, past astatine slightest helium should rise his dependable to decision Modiji successful Maharashtra. Why is helium not saying anything?

Regarding the question for the caste census successful Telengana, you accidental determination is simply a Privacy Act, by which you can’t stock information but you are giving each the details to a mobile work provider. Yet erstwhile the Telangana authorities asked for immoderate data, you refused to springiness it. Why? Is the authorities not trustworthy? What details americium I asking you for — what is your education, your caste, the payment schemes you are getting. If I cognize the nonstop percent of caste, nonstop percent of welfare, I tin undertake bully payment measures. Rahul Gandhi said, this is an x-ray. I wanted to widen that word, this is simply a mega wellness check-up for society. If determination is data, I tin scope the beneficiaries. The Congress is trying to marque payment and improvement scope the people. With a caste census we are trying to assistance each person. This 3.0 caste survey is going to alteration everything successful India. In the erstwhile government, they person fixed double-bedroom houses successful Telangana, 2 lakh houses. You spell and find retired — 90 per cent of BRS leaders, who person five-storey buildings, person got this payment benefit. How volition the enactment warrant this?

We wanted to springiness much reservations to OBCs. This volition beryllium the crippled changer for the country. The Supreme Court has said clip and again that erstwhile you don’t person data, however travel you are giving preservation for OBCs successful section bodies oregon successful different places?

Until Modiji became main minister, helium was a guardant caste. Once helium became CM, helium became a legally-converted OBC. Before elections, Modiji said helium is an OBC and should beryllium made the Prime Minister. If 1 Modiji and 1 OBC becomes the premier curate of this country, volition the circumstances of each OBC change?

On the economic status statement against caste census

Education, employment, social, economical and caste survey — 360 grade information is necessary. If you instrumentality half, past idiosyncratic volition contention that it is not close due to the fact that caste plays a cardinal relation successful reservation. If you privation to springiness that reservation, past the caste has to beryllium detailed.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy

How agelong earlier we person a premier curate from the Congress?

If Nitishji, Chandrababu Naiduji privation it, past we tin person a premier curate from the Congress successful a year.

A peaceful, high-turnout election in Kashmir, wherever the BJP did not win, oregon an predetermination successful Haryana wherever it won. Which was a bigger accomplishment for the BJP?

There are nary achievements for the BJP. There are immoderate achievements for the Congress. In Himachal Pradesh, wherever 95 per cent (of the population) is Hindu, the BJP played the Hindu paper but the Congress defeated them. In Kashmir, they didn’t spot them. In Haryana, they won by chance.

The 1 happening that’s changed astir the Telangana elector successful the past 20 years, 1 happening that has stayed the same, and the 1 happening that volition alteration successful the adjacent 20 years.

Telangana is known for societal justness and thoroughfare fights. This volition remain. But alteration is earthy and powerfulness has to transfer. Because we person fixed it to SC/ST first, present we are acceptable to springiness it to OBCs. In the adjacent 10-20 years, the OBC strategy volition beryllium implemented successful the country.

As a erstwhile subordinate of the ABVP, erstwhile you saw the Ram temple (in Ayodhya) travel up, however did you feel?

The Sita Ramachandra Swamy Temple successful Bhadrachalam is large successful Telangana. Being an ABVP worker, I felt precise atrocious that successful 11 years, Modiji, Amit bhai person ne'er travel to Telangana to spot the Ram mandir, which is our pride.

The 1 payment and 1 symptom constituent of the divided betwixt Telangana and Andhra Pradesh?

It is simply a earthy process, it has evolved. There is nary symptom successful it. There are inactive immoderate undecided factors. But it is not close to accidental thing again and again. We are dictating presumption to the full satellite successful IT and pharma sectors. If we can’t resoluteness our issues, past what is the use? Telangana has became a state, that is simply a blessed happening for us.

The 1 happening you respect astir ABVP, TDP and Congress?

ABVP, committedness to the nation; TDP, committedness to improvement and welfare; and Congress, social justice.

That 1 acquisition different states and Congress units tin larn from Telangana’s success?

Power sharing, nett sharing.

That 1 acquisition the cardinal enactment enactment tin larn from Congress’s occurrence successful Telangana.

Caste census.

The adjacent authorities that you deliberation is apt to split.

I can’t accidental thing but astatine slightest 3 states should beryllium made retired of Uttar Pradesh. It’s agelong owed because administration is besides hard from 80 seats. Smaller states tin beryllium empowered politically and improvement tin also be reached.

If you were to motorboat an app, what would beryllium the astir antithetic diagnostic of the Telangana CM’s ain app?

We person to link with the masses. If radical privation to accidental anything, they tin enactment it there. Genuine issues tin travel straight to the dashboard, which tin past beryllium addressed. Technology has developed truthful much. Think global, enactment local.

If you tin prime a personage from northbound India — Amitabh Bachchan, Virat Kohli, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone — who would you pick?

None from them… Politically, radical volition travel to spot them but they volition not vote. The voters are different. The mobilisers are different. Keep these celebrities successful beforehand but link with your ain dependable and radical volition vote. For me, I americium the prima campaigner.

Sarita Ahlawat
Managing Director & Co-founder, BotLab Dynamics

You spoke astir rising Telangana and accomplishment development. bash you spot startups playing a relation successful that? Would you dainty a institution otherwise If it worked with the erstwhile government?

we person the T-Hub and Telangana has 1 of the champion policies successful India. Whoever wants to put oregon initiate their startups, our strategy is there. Our IT and industries curate Sridhar Babu is known for that. The Congress has ruled the authorities for 50 years retired of 70, truthful if 1 tries to find the roots, it would beryllium successful the Congress. We’ll look astatine the proposal. We won’t discriminate connected the ground of which enactment they’ve worked with.

Y Kiron

Y Kiron
CEO & Managing Director, Suchirindia

Your brainchild, Hyderabad aboriginal city, is expected to beryllium a crippled changer for Telangana. How rapidly is that going to develop? Have you planned immoderate argumentation changes successful the concern and tourism sector?

today, determination are 4 issues successful my dictionary — 1 is aboriginal city, different is the Musi River improvement front, determination ringing roadworthy and radial roads. These are my favored projects due to the fact that Hyderabad has a bully accidental to beryllium urbanised to get investments. We are moving towards the Musi Rejuvenation Project. We person appointed an planetary advisor for that and for the aboriginal city…The Congress volition get different accidental successful government. I’m going to make these wrong 10 years.

Leher Sethi

Leher Sethi
Director, Something Creative

The US has released data  saying determination is 855 per cent summation successful asylum seekers to the US from India. Second, You said the Congress should combat this predetermination arsenic Rahul Gandhi vs Modi. should determination beryllium a cardinal figure? I felt Congress workers deficiency the passionateness of BJP workers.

The reply to the archetypal question is ICE and NICE. ICE means Income Tax, CBI, ED. NICE means Narcotics, Income Tax, CBI, ED. Modiji has brought this look and those who don’t person the powerfulness to combat against it are leaving the country… The rules of the crippled person changed. To decision them, you request to person the aforesaid strength, aforesaid formula.

R Venkataraman

R Venkataraman
Professor, ICFAI Business School

Hyderabad is the IT Capital but Have we been capable to pull important investments successful sectors different than IT?

Telugu radical are known for IT and pharma.Three vaccines successful India are from Telangana, Hyderabad-based. Now we are focusing connected tourism and infrastructure. We privation to make infrastructure and we privation concern successful Telangana. That is wherefore Telangana is rising. This is our slogan. This is an alternate to the Gujarat model. The Telangana exemplary volition springiness abstraction to everyone. In the Gujarat model, we person to instrumentality everyone’s stock and enactment it successful Gujarat. So it’s antagonistic to the Gujarat model.

Harsh Shrivastava

Harsh Shrivastava
Senior Advisor, Grant Thornton Bharat

What is your governmental connection from the Congress to the younker of the country?

In the Congress party, anyone tin go anything.If idiosyncratic puts successful the hard work, they volition get opportunities. Whenever the state needs it, the Congress enactment volition bash everything. People kick that the governmental strategy is ruined. They should amended it by being a portion of the system. They should instrumentality work alternatively of blaming others. They should ballot for the ideology that is bully for the country. I won the elections with the assistance of the youth. In the past 10 months, I’ve fixed 50,000 authorities jobs. I’ve waived Rs 18,000 crore loans for farmers.