The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has finally given up its hypocrisy of projecting itself a secular party by joining hands with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in capturing the posts of mayor and deputy mayor posts in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
The Bharatiya Janata Party might be disappointed for losing chance of cornering the TRS, in the event of the AIMIM staying away from the contest for the two posts. But with the MIM extending support to the TRS, it is more than happy.
“The TRS-MIM friendship is now clearly exposed and what we have been saying all these days has now come out in the open. Though the TRS members are in the top seats in the GHMC, the steering will be in the hands of the MIM. The TRS will have to dance to the tunes of the MIM hereafter,” BJP state president Bandi Sanjay said.
BJP legislator from Goshamahal T Raja Singh said the TRS had dug its own grave by taking the support from the MIM.
“Both the parties have betrayed the faith of the people of Hyderabad. And they are going to pay the penalty in the next assembly elections,” he said.
BJP official spokesman K Krishna Sagar Rao said the party stood vindicated on the charge that the TRS and the AIMIM were conjoined twins and had a secret alliance.
“Today with AIMIM openly supporting TRS Mayoral bid, the cat is out of the bag. They have unravelled their seven-year-old secret alliance publicly, as TRS was left with no option,” he said.
He said the TRS would not have won half the seats, if it would have announced this alliance prior to GHMC elections.
