Gadkari slams Congress over corruption, price rise

Gadkari slams Congress over corruption, price rise

Hitting out at the Congress over corruption, price rise and also the Telangana issue, BJP President Nitin Gadkari said the country would get relief only when the party heading the ruling coalition at the Centre is defeated in polls. "End Congress rule and you will get relief. Separate Telangana (state) will also be formed. Price rise, unemployment, corruption are all because of the wrong economic policies and misrule of Congress," Gadkari said in Mahabubnagar (AP) on Thursday. The BJP President was addressing a public meeting organised at Maktal in Mahabubnagar district on the occasion of Andhra Pradesh BJP President G Kishan Reddy kick-starting a 'yatra' in support of the separate Telangana demand. Accusing the Congress of betraying the people of Telangana over formation of separate state, Gadkari said the BJP would create the new state if it came to power in the next general elections. He reiterated his party's full support if the Centre introduced a bill for formation of separate Telangana in the upcoming session of Parliament. The BJP-led NDA Government, headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had created three new states -- Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, he pointed out. Gadkari expressed confidence that BJP would come to power at the Centre in the next Lok Sabha polls.