Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party has strongly condemned Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for spending public money to fulfill his religious vows.
“KCR possibly is the only CM in the entire country today who spends public money so brazenly for personal reasons. He seems to be totally convinced that he has been elected to be the ‘King of Telangana State’ and totally oblivious of the fact, that he is an elected representative in a democratic system.
He is on a brazen trip of personal splurge of public money. He must understand that he is only the custodian of public money for a period of five years, which the CM seems to be missing totally.
He is also accountable for every rupee he is splurging for wasteful expenditure,” Telangana BJP Official Spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said in a media statement on Wednesday.
Krishna Sagar Rao said that the BJP does not have any objection to one’s religious beliefs and personal vows to god. However, these vows have to be fulfilled in individual capacity and not by using public money.
Those in power should have basic competence to draw a line between personal and public spending, he said.
“BJP takes strong objection to CM KCR’s chronic violation of probity in public life. BJP warns CM KCR to put a stop to this politics of caste and religious appeasement through wasteful expenditure of hard earned tax payer’s money,” Krishna Saagar Rao said. (INN)