Team News Riveting
Hyderabad, February 4
Having taking on the BJP in the political front, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will avoid facing the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during his Hyderabad visit on Saturday.
Besides airport, both the leaders are unlikely to share dais as Prime Minister is scheduled to attend two programmes in the city.
The state government has deputed Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav to receive and see-off the Prime Minister during his visit. Modi will be unveiling the “Statue of Equality” to commemorate the 11th century Bhakti saint Ramanujacharya at the premises of Chinna Jeeyar Trust at Muchintal. The statue has been conceptualised by Chinna Jeeyar, a prominent spiritual guru.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the 50th anniversary celebrations of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and will dedicate ICRISAT’s climate change research facility on plant protection and ICRISAT’s rapid generation advancement facility.
Sources said that the Chief Minister had signalled that he would not be attending the programmes also with the Prime Minister. Rao on Thursday visited Chinna Jeeyar Trust to participate in the Ramanuja Sahasrabdi Samaroh celebrations and went around the 215-feet tall giant statue. His prior visit indicates he will not be present with the Prime Minister in the event, sources added.
Rao has slammed the Narendra Modi-led Union government at a press meet following the presentation of the Union Budget for 2022-23 on February 1. Amidst strongly worded criticism of the Budget, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief called for uprooting the BJP from the Union government and “throwing it into the Bay of Bengal”.
He also slammed the BJP for what he called damaging the country by dividing people in the name of religion.
