‘Not going to Delhi to kneel before PM Modi like you’: Riled by criticism of capital trips, Telangana CM Revanth Reddy hits out at opposition

“Some forces are counting my tours to New Delhi. The media ever says I’m going determination to question support for Cabinet expansion. Today’s Delhi sojourn has nary governmental significance… Tomorrow, we volition sermon the issues that request to beryllium raised successful Parliament connected behalf of the authorities authorities with Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs,” Reddy, who is from the Congress, said.

Reddy’s comments travel astatine a clip erstwhile determination is speculation that helium has been visiting Delhi to sermon Cabinet enlargement and to shortlist appointments for assorted posts successful the state’s nationalist assemblage corporations.

In a connection successful October, absorption Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) moving president K T Rama Rao said that Reddy visited Delhi 23 times successful 10 months but the authorities is yet to spot immoderate benefits. “He mightiness acceptable a grounds for the fig of Delhi visits,” the BRS person said.

The CM has said antecedently that his visits were not linked to politics. He reiterated that connected Monday, saying helium was visiting Delhi to “chalk retired an enactment program to get funds and permissions owed to the state” and “meet Union ministers seeking the merchandise of pending funds”.

“I’m not going to Delhi to kneel down earlier PM (Narendra) Modi similar you. I’m not going to Delhi to clasp someone’s limb (and plead to beryllium fto disconnected cases), oregon to inquire the politician not to springiness permission. Telangana has suffered a batch successful the past 10 years. The BJP is not giving funds to the authorities from the enactment treasury, it’s fixed from the cardinal authorities treasury. The authorities volition get funds lone erstwhile we spell and conscionable the Union ministers without showing governmental bias,” helium said, adding that “this is not the clip to amusement choler and resentment against someone”.

Reddy is apt to conscionable Rahul Gandhi and invitation him to the inauguration of Telangana Thalli (mother) statue astatine the authorities secretariat connected December 9 – the time that Reddy’s authorities completes 1 twelvemonth of being successful power.