"Not just these 16 MPs, but by gathering 100 to 150 MPs, Telangana should influence the country's politics," he said. The country has not been able to progress the way it should have with the Congress and the BJP at the helm of affairs since Independence, he said. Giving an example, he said the country is blessed with 70,000 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water, however there is still drinking and irrigation water shortage. He further claimed power plants were not being used effectively. China has progressed greatly, though it was backward earlier, he said. Many reforms are needed in governance, judiciary, among others, he said.

During his visit to Telangana, BJP president Amit Shah had said the Centre has given plenty of funds to the state, which is not true, KCR alleged. He said all central funds received by the state were as per the Constitution. Telangana is among the six-seven states that make the country run, he said. The chief minister criticised the thorny relations between the government and the opposition. While Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleges Prime Minister Narendra Modi is corrupt, Modi retorts by saying the Gandhis are out on bail, KCR said. He mocked the BJP's "Hindutva agenda", asking whether others outside the saffron party were not Hindus.

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"The local Congress, BJP leaders are speaking today with big mouths as if there is no problem, no problem of drinking water, as if they only took contract for Hindu religion. Are you only Hindu? Are we not Hindu," he said. "We are better Hindus than you. Nobody in India does as many 'yagas' as I do. In fact, Modi (once) said Rao spends most of his time on 'pujas'. What is your (Modi) loss if we do 'pujas'. You come if you like, I will give you 'prasadam'," he said.

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