Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday alleged that Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao stopped going to the state Secretariat and didn’t induct ladies in his Cupboard for a very long time on the recommendation of “tantriks” and numerologists.
Sitharaman additionally claimed that Rao, popularly often called KCR, modified the identify of his social gathering — Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) — on the recommendation of “tantriks” (occultists).
Interacting with social gathering employees in Hyderabad, Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar additionally made comparable allegations.
The Chief Minister’s Workplace didn’t instantly react to the feedback.
Rao renamed his social gathering to BRS earlier this week as a part of his nationwide enlargement plans forward of 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Even after TRS was re-elected, there was no lady minister within the Cupboard for nearly a 12 months, Sitharaman mentioned. “KCR, on the recommendation of tantriks and numerologists, stopped going to the Secretariat, didn’t induct ladies for a few years in his Cupboard and now, has modified his social gathering’s identify,” she mentioned.
Kumar claimed: “KCR is performing tantrik pujas and rituals for a number of months on the recommendation of (a) tantrik. The tantrik instructed him that until he modified TRS’s identify, he could be out of energy…”
With PTI inputs