The Congress party has discovered a new word to attack the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders who have been making aggressive remarks against Congress bosses Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The word is really a tongue-twister: Kakorrhaphiophobia, which according to dictionary, is an abnormal, persistent, irrational fear of failure.
In clinical cases, it's the fear of even the most subtle failure or defeat and is so intense that it restricts a person from doing anything at all.
On Thursday, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy used this word against TRS leader and IT minister K T Rama Rao, who made unsavoury remarks against Sonia and Rahul.
"KTR is suffering from Kakorrhaphiophobia. He is afraid that the TRS would lose terribly in next polls.
Having wasted over four years in lavish lifestyle and foreign tours using public money, KTR has now realised that TRS will face a certain defeat in next elections due to non-performance.
Therefore, in order to deviate people's attention from failures, he is resorting to cheap and loose talk against Congress party and its leaders," said Narayana Reddy.
He said KTR had no stature to make any comments on Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
"People like KTR queue up at 10 Janpath to take a picture with Sonia Gandhi Ji and Rahul Gandhi Ji.
KCR, KTR and their other family members also did the same thing in 2014. They used that picture to tell people that their family's stature has grown.
Before saying anything on Nehru-Gandhi family, KTR should give a clarification on why his entire family landed at 10 Janpath before facing elections in 2014," he said.
The Congress leader said KTR should speak about the status of promises made by the TRS in its election manifesto in 2014.
"Has the TRS implemented 12% reservation for Muslims and STs? How many double bed room houses have been given to poor people?
How many poor Dalit families got three acres of land? What is the status of KG-PG free education?" he asked adding that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his family would be remembered in history for their lies and cheating.
"The TRS government had promised to turn Hyderabad into Dallas and Old City into Istanbul. Has this been achieved?
Immediately after GHMC elections in February 2016, KTR had announced a 100-day action plan to improve civic amenities in Hyderabad. But nothing has been done even after 500 days and the conditions have turned from bad to worse.
KTR had also promised to pay Rs. 1,000 to people who show one pothole on city roads. I challenge KTR to tour the city with me and I'm sure I will be able to collect an amount enough to fund my election campaign," he said.
