Hyderabad:
A video of Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s brother Tirupati Reddy arriving for a faculty perform in a convoy led by a police automobile and being welcomed with a marching band and a parade has gone viral, igniting controversy and attracting barbs from opposition events BRS and BJP. Tirupati Reddy holds no official place within the state.
The video, from the state’s Vikarabad district, exhibits the convoy pulling up close to the college and Mr Reddy being handed a bouquet of flowers as he exits a black SUV. College students are lined up on both aspect of the highway and a band marches in the direction of the chief minister’s brother. Mr Reddy is then welcomed by one of many college students main a mini parade.
Taking to X on Friday, BRS working president KT Rama Rao took a veiled dig at Revanth Reddy and his brothers and mentioned Telangana has obtained half a dozen chief ministers after the Congress got here to energy, although it elected just one.
Persevering with in a sarcastic vein, Mr Rao mentioned, “My needs to Vikarabad chief minister Tirupati Reddy.”
Tamil Nadu BJP Spokesperson NV Subhash mentioned Tirupati Reddy enjoys privileges like a police convoy although he’s not an MP, MLA or perhaps a corporator. The Vikarabad District Collector, Mr Subhash alleged was performing like Mr Reddy’s “private bodyguard” in the course of the faculty occasion.
Congress Spokesperson Sama Rammohan Reddy advised information company PTI that it’s for a faculty’s administration to resolve who it needs to ask for its occasions and the way it needs to welcome the individual.
He additionally alleged that members of the family of the then Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao violated guidelines and protocols a number of occasions in the course of the social gathering’s almost decade-long rule within the state.