Hyderabad: With polling day looming, BRS Working President K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) delivered a blistering address at a roadshow in Erragadda division, warning that the public will punish what he described as “green-collar criminals, goons and rogue officials” if the Congress is returned to power. Speaking to a raucous crowd, KTR repeatedly urged voters to back BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath and warned that the party will “write down names” and hold perpetrators to account once it returns to power.

KTR’s language was stark and symbolic. “After the 14th, a new storm will hit Telangana… whoever jumps, we will cut off his tail,” he told supporters, characterising the post-poll period as a reckoning for those who intimidate voters or misuse power. He singled out what he called unlawful demolition drives and alleged selective enforcement by officials, saying neither Revanth Reddy nor his supporters — “not even his grandfather or uncle” — could save those who have acted against ordinary citizens.

Charging the Congress with opportunism, KTR criticised the ruling party for promising schemes only when surveys showed it losing ground. He accused the government of dangling ministerial posts, film industry favours, and welfare promises as election tactics — a reference to recent high-profile appointments — while failing to deliver on guarantees over the past two years. “If you vote for Congress again after being cheated, you’re voting for deception,” he said, urging Jubilee Hills voters to reject what he called intimidation and hollow promises.

KTR invoked the BRS decade of development — jobs, housing, sanitation and urban projects — as the contrast to two years of what he called misgovernance. Ending on a mobilisation note, he called on women, youth and slum voters to turn out on polling day and “vote for the car symbol” to ensure a decisive victory for Maganti Sunitha.

The speech underlines BRS’s dual strategy in Jubilee Hills: combine emotive mobilisation with hard-edged allegations against the ruling party to energise the ground cadre in the final stretch of campaigning.