Bharat Rashtra Samithi senior legislator and former minister T Harish Rao on Friday announced his resignation from his assembly membership and released the copies of his resignation letter to the media, challenging whether Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy would also step down if the latter did not implement his six guarantees before August 15.
Revanth, however, described Harish Rao’s resignation as a big drama, as the letter was not in a proper format of the state assembly and was more like a press statement.
The chief minister announced at a public meeting of the Congress at Kodangal on April 23 that his government would implement the crop loan waiver, as part of the party’s six guarantees promised before the elections, at any cost by August 15.
“I am throwing a straight challenge at BRS leaders, including its president K Chandrasekhar Rao. If I implement the scheme before August 15, will you resign from your seats and dissolve your party?” he asked.
Harish Rao accepted the challenge and declared that he would submit his resignation letter well in advance to the media, who may handover the same to legislative assembly speaker on August 15, if the Revanth government implements the crop loan waiver scheme.
On Friday, Harish Rao arrived at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial in Gun Park and after paying tribute to the Telangana martyrs, he released his resignation letter to the media.
He challenged the chief minister to send his resignation letter, too, in advance, so that it could be accepted if his government did not implement the promise.
Revanth, however, said Harish Rao’s resignation letter was just a big drama, as it was not in a prescribed format. In fact, it is a lengthy letter and will not be accepted, which Harish Rao was very much aware.
“The BRS leader is acting smart on his resignation. He knows that if it is submitted to the Speaker, it will be automatically rejected,” Revanth Reddy said, adding that he would stick to his promise of implementing Rs 2 lakh farm loan waiver by August 15.
