Will free Hyderabad from Nizam culture if BJP wins: Amit Shah

HYDERABAD: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday promised to turn Hyderabad into a “mini India” housing an International IT hub, while taking a dig at chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s plans of cobbling together a non-BJP political front which failed to take off.
After a huge road show during the last day of campaigning for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls on December 1 that has seen a bitter attack by political parties, often with communal overtones, Shah said if the BJP wins big, Hyderabad would be made free from the Nizam and Nawabi culture.

Addressing a media conference, Shah said he was overwhelmed by the crowd and promised that if BJP was voted to power they would put an end to appeasement politics and turn the city into a global IT hub.
“I have been here many times, but this welcome is unprecedented and unexpected. We are not only doing well in polls, but will have the mayor’s seat for us too,” he added.
Shah stressed that in the immediate future BJP wants to win the mayor’s seat and emerge as the main opposition after the GHMC polls, paving the way for the party to win the next assembly election.
He said BJP does not consider this galli election, unlike the TRS. “Those who are calling this a street election should have got the city streets cleaned properly then they would not have this apprehension over BJP leaders emerging,” said Shah.
Attacking KCR’s proposal of an anti-BJP front, he said, “He is free to move everywhere in the country and remember what happened last time after 2018 elections? He went around in several states in 2019, but he lost many parliament seats.”
Quizzed on KCR’s charge that the Centre has not released central funds, the home minister said had KCR gone to the Secretariat he would have come to know the details about central funds to Telangana.
“Telangana is the state which received maximum loans for street vendors and Hyderabad is the city with highest number of such loans,” he added.
Highlighting that dynasty politics should end, Shah said the BJP does not have any problem with anyone having alliance with any party, but asked why TRS and AIMIM are having a secret pact. “Why don’t you have open, declared understating,” he said.
Shah also criticised KCR for not visiting all the flood-hit areas and added that it was not BJP, but the AIMIM and TRS who are engaged in divisive politics.