HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Sunday said the state Assembly would meet in September and challenged BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao to attend the session and discuss his 10-year tenure in government, according to news agency PTI.Speaking to the media at a public meeting in Parkala near Warangal, Reddy said BRS leaders K T Rama Rao and T Harish Rao had repeatedly demanded that the Assembly be convened.“Chandrasekhar Rao, who has 40 years of experience and served as chief minister and union minister, should attend the Assembly session. He should discuss welfare and development that took place during his 10-year-long rule,” Revanth said.CM Revanth said the Assembly should also discuss the welfare and development programmes introduced by the Congress government over the past two-and-a-half years, as well as the Rs 8.11 lakh crore debt burden he alleged was left behind by the BRS government.He said the state currently spends Rs 75,000 crore a year on principal and interest payments, compared with Rs 6,500 crore annually before Telangana was formed in 2014.The chief minister also claimed that the Congress government had filled 70,000 vacancies since coming to power in December 2023 and would fill the remaining posts in phases.Targeting the BRS over its approach towards unemployed youth, Reddy alleged that the party had failed to provide jobs during its time in power and that question papers were sold like “peanuts” during recruitment examinations.He also accused Harish Rao and other BRS leaders of provoking young people during the Telangana statehood agitation, which he claimed resulted in the suicide of 1,200 youths.Revanth further alleged that the BRS was attempting to provoke unemployed youth again to create unrest and return to power.The chief minister urged young people not to risk their lives by taking part in protests and said they could face police cases for participating in dharnas and other demonstrations.Taking aim at K T Rama Rao, Reddy also alleged that he had “pushed his sister (TRS president K Kavitha) out of the home” because he did not want to share property with her.Can a person who cannot do justice to his own sister do justice to the two crore women of Telangana, he asked.“When the son throws sister out of the home… did the father (KCR) close his eyes? Is he like ‘Dhritarashtra’ (of Mahabharat)? He should have rebuked his son and ensured a 50 per cent share in the property for his daughter,” he said.Revanth also questioned why KCR’s family members did not donate blood at a blood donation camp recently organised at the BRS office.“Hundreds of innocent BRS workers donated blood and it was sold off to private hospitals for crores of rupees. Are you blood thristy,” he asked.He also questioned why Rama Rao and Harish Rao had not donated blood.Comparing his government with the previous BRS administration, Reddy said he had given ministerial positions to Congress leaders from backward and other sections, while KCR had appointed his son, daughter, nephews and relatives to key positions.“While he did social justice, KCR ensured “family justice”,” he said.Earlier, speaking at a public meeting in Mulugu district, Reddy repeated his allegations against Harish Rao, accusing him of performing occult rituals at temples in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to seek drought in Telangana and damage the Congress government’s image.Harish Rao had rejected the allegations on August 15, calling Reddy’s remarks “cheap comments”. He said the chief minister was targeting him because he had raised issues including alleged corruption, incomplete farm loan waivers and inadequate fertiliser supplies.Harish Rao said he would continue to raise issues concerning farmers, unemployed youth and students and added that he would file a defamation case over Reddy’s allegations.Reddy also alleged that the previous BRS government had neglected the Sammakka Sarakka temple in Mulugu district.Focusing on education and employment, the chief minister urged students to pursue technical qualifications after Intermediate through ITIs converted into Advanced Technology Centres, polytechnic colleges and the state-run skills university.He also suggested that students look beyond the US for employment opportunities, particularly in countries such as Germany and Japan. The state government, he said, would support students in learning German and Japanese.
