Patan Afzal Babu Hyderabad

TelanganaChief Minister A Revanth Reddy has claimed that the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi would join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party and become a political ally to the saffron party in New Delhi after the next elections.

Participating in ‘National Education Day’ and ‘Minority Welfare Day’ celebrations on Wednesday, the Chief Minister said that the Congress party had the strength to take on the BJP. “The ‘car' (BRS party symbol) that starts from the streets of Telangana will turn into a 'lotus' (BJP symbol) the moment it reaches Delhi,” he observed. The Chief Minister criticised the BJP for stalling the minority reservation in education and jobs. He claimed that the Congress government was providing 4 per cent reservation for minorities. The BJP announced at a public meeting in Chevella that it would abolish minority reservations. “We challenged the BJP to abolish the reservation in Gujarat first. The Congress empowered the poor and the minorities with the right to vote. The BJP is trying to disenfranchise them,” the Chief Minister charged. Stating that the government had accorded top priority to the welfare of minorities, the Chief Minister said that the Metro Rail works were being taken up expeditiously in the Old City, which is called as Orginal City, and the Musi Rejuvenation Project would revive the Old City’s glory.

The Chief Minister highlighted the importance of creating a night economy along the Musi river. Revanth Reddy warned that that jobs in software engineering were on the decline under the impact of AI technology.

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