KTR says District Collector acting like Congress worker, Telangana IAS bodies hit back

“The District Collector is moving arsenic a Congress enactment worker. Don’t beryllium acrophobic of specified people. Even Chief Minister Revanth Reddy cannot bash thing to BRS. District Collectors and different officers who are moving arsenic Congress activists would beryllium taught a bully acquisition erstwhile BRS returns to power,” Rao had said portion addressing enactment workers successful his location constituency.

“It is disturbing to enactment that it is becoming a norm to formed aspersions connected nationalist servants by persons occupying liable nationalist offices,” the IAS Officers’ Institute said successful a statement.

The Telangana IAS Officers’ Association besides expressed “deep interest and beardown condemnation regarding the caller derogatory statement” by Rao.

“In an unfortunate nationalist remark, the collector was personally targeted and belittled successful a mode that undermines the dignity of the serviceman holding specified an important presumption successful the state’s medication and Civil Services astatine large. We request that specified statements are retracted and an apology for the unwarranted remarks made,” the connection said.

The Association said that Rao’s comments questioned Jha’s integrity and impartiality. “The Association calls for contiguous cessation of specified unfounded accusations and urges each stakeholders to prosecute successful sermon that respects organization integrity and the regularisation of law,” it said.

KTR, who was a curate erstwhile the BRS was successful power, has had respective run-ins with the ruling Congress since the second stormed to powerfulness successful November 2023.

Earlier this month, Rao alleged that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s brother-in-law was awarded contracts worthy implicit Rs 1,000 crore nether the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) contempt his institution lacking the indispensable qualifications.