HYDERABAD, DEC 16   :   BRS leader Shaik Abdullah Sohail on Saturday made it clear that the party will not have an alliance with BJP in the next year’s Lok Sabha election in Telangana.

In a media statement, Sohail, alleged that a Congress-paid group has been spreading rumours in the mainstream and social media of a possible alliance between BRS and BJP in the coming Lok Sabha election.

However, BRS Working President K T Ramarao not only denied such reports but strongly condemned them. Now the same group and a few individuals are trying to spread baseless rumours on the possibility of an alliance between the BRS and BJP, he said.

“Minorities have outrightly rejected the Congress party in the last month Assembly election and voted in favour of BRS. This is evident from the election results. BRS party won 16 out of 24 seats in Greater Hyderabad where nearly 70% of Muslims reside, Sohail said.

Similarly, it was the BRS that, through the support of minority voters, defeated the BJP’s top leaders like Bandi Sanjay in Karimnagar, D Arvind in Korutla, Raghunandan Rao in Dubbaka and Eatala Rajender in Huzurabad, he claimed.

Congress did not even field a strong candidate in these constituencies. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi did not even campaign in the constituencies from where top BJP leaders were contesting. Therefore, BRS was able to win almost all seats with the support of minorities,” the BRS leader said.

Sohail said that heads of some Muslim organisations, who had announced their support to the Congress party in the Assembly election are unable to digest the fact that their propaganda against BRS was rejected by the community.

“Even the Congress party knows it did not get the support of minorities in the Assembly election and they voted for the BRS. For the same reason, it denied representation to any Muslim in the State cabinet. In the Governor’s address to the Telangana Legislature, the mention of promises made in the Congress party’s Minority Declaration was skipped,” he alleged.

Unable to bear the fact that common Muslims rejected their propaganda against BRS in the Assembly elections, a few people with vested interest are spreading baseless rumours speculating about the BRS-BJP alliance, he pointed out.

“It is quite clear that BRS will win a majority of Lok Sabha seats on its own in the coming election and it will not have any alliance with the BJP”, Sohail added.(UNI)