Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday admitted he had been called a Hitler and he was not ashamed about it.
Hyderabad:
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has said that he is not ashamed at being likened by some people to German dictator Hitler and promises that he "can be worse to stop "injustice".
Mr Rao was on Sunday defending the decision by his two-month old government to hold a Rs. 20-crore day-long survey of Telangana residents this week to ensure that welfare schemes and benefits reach the most needy. He has dismissed allegations that the survey is aimed at identifying people from Andhra Pradesh now in Telangana. (Discrimination Fears Rife in Telangana as State Prepares for Survey)
"One says KCR is Hitler, another says KCR is dictator; KCR is definitely Hitler for thieves. I want to be Hitler for the corrupt. I don't feel ashamed. KCR is Hitler to stop injustice. I can even be Hitler's grandfather," Mr Rao said at a press conference a couple of hours after meeting Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
The two chief ministers met at the behest of ESL Narasimhan, the governor for both states, at the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad to try and thrash out differences between their states, born out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Before the meeting, Mr Naidu held a press conference to release a white paper with details about what Andhra Pradesh had lost in the split.
Mr Rao claimed that Mr Naidu and he had a very cordial and fruitful meeting; he said they discussed how nearly 4,500 state government employees of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh government would be shared.
The two chief ministers also decided that the Telangana Assembly would be convened after the Andhra Pradesh assembly session, which begins today, ends after the first week of September.
The two states will share a common capital, Hyderabad, for the next 10 years, in what seems to be an uncomfortable arrangement for both. They have made sarcastic comments about the other often, seeming unable to co-exist in the same city.
They have also accused each other of being vindictive against people from the other region.
Mr Rao was once a member of Mr Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and even a minister in a Chandrababu Cabinet. He quit the party in 1999 when he was not made a minister. In 2001, KCR launched the Telangana Rashtra Samiti to fight for a separate Telangana state.
Mr Rao was on Sunday defending the decision by his two-month old government to hold a Rs. 20-crore day-long survey of Telangana residents this week to ensure that welfare schemes and benefits reach the most needy. He has dismissed allegations that the survey is aimed at identifying people from Andhra Pradesh now in Telangana. (Discrimination Fears Rife in Telangana as State Prepares for Survey)
"One says KCR is Hitler, another says KCR is dictator; KCR is definitely Hitler for thieves. I want to be Hitler for the corrupt. I don't feel ashamed. KCR is Hitler to stop injustice. I can even be Hitler's grandfather," Mr Rao said at a press conference a couple of hours after meeting Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
The two chief ministers met at the behest of ESL Narasimhan, the governor for both states, at the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad to try and thrash out differences between their states, born out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Before the meeting, Mr Naidu held a press conference to release a white paper with details about what Andhra Pradesh had lost in the split.
Mr Rao claimed that Mr Naidu and he had a very cordial and fruitful meeting; he said they discussed how nearly 4,500 state government employees of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh government would be shared.
The two chief ministers also decided that the Telangana Assembly would be convened after the Andhra Pradesh assembly session, which begins today, ends after the first week of September.
The two states will share a common capital, Hyderabad, for the next 10 years, in what seems to be an uncomfortable arrangement for both. They have made sarcastic comments about the other often, seeming unable to co-exist in the same city.
They have also accused each other of being vindictive against people from the other region.
Mr Rao was once a member of Mr Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and even a minister in a Chandrababu Cabinet. He quit the party in 1999 when he was not made a minister. In 2001, KCR launched the Telangana Rashtra Samiti to fight for a separate Telangana state.
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