Will get Central funds for Medak’s development: M. Raghunandan Rao

Will get Central funds for Medak’s development: M. Raghunandan Rao

BJP’s Medak candidate and former MLA from Dubbak Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao (56) is a lawyer by profession who began his political career with TRS, shifted to Congress and later joined the saffron party. He lost the recent Assembly elections, but has pinned his hopes to win the Lok Sabha polls. In this interview, he talks about his chances.

Medak is considered as a stronghold of BRS. How do you plan to breach it?

BRS will be in third place. Since the Congress has come to power, it may be in the second place. I can say this for sure, because former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao himself told a public meeting that there would be minority votes’ polarisation.

Are you banking on Hindutva alone?

The entire country’s agenda is that. How can there be any other election agenda, when majority of people are Hindus? Apart from development, when it comes to religion, KCR himself has been stating that BJP will win if Muslim minority votes do not go to BRS.

But, are not minority votes sizeable in your constituency?

I am not saying we will not have minority votes at all, because there are beneficiaries of Central schemes, including loans for street vendors, Mudra loans for micro-enterprises, Muslim women beneficiaries, and construction of toilets, among others. I also cannot say how much of polarisation will happen because the Modi Government has given loans irrespective of caste, creed and religion.