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Revanth Reddy’s 16 “Harrowing Nights In Jail” Barb Draws KTR Retort

Revanth Reddy’s 16 “Harrowing Nights In Jail” Barb Draws KTR Retort

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Hyderabad: The Revanth Reddy vs KT Rama Rao spat – which has included jabs over Telangana hosting the Miss World pageant and the arrest of two women journalists – continued Thursday with the Chief Minister’s comment about “16 harrowing nights in jail” in 2020, for flying a drone, when KTR’s party was in power. Addressing the Assembly this afternoon, the Chief Minister declared he had been “unfairly arrested” and sent to a high-security prison that also housed terrorists. “A cell that was supposed to imprison ISI agents or naxal extremists… I, a Member of Parliament, was forced to spend 16 nights there.” “For 16 days I was kept in solitary confinement… not allowed to see anyone. Even then, I swallowed my anger and continued working for the state’s welfare,” he said, pointing out also the law only prescribed a Rs 500 fine for the misdemeanour with which he had been charged. He claimed his cell had bright lights left on all night and was unsanitary and unhygienic, and declared, “If needed, I can take MLAs and …

Sparks Fly In Telangana As KTR, Revanth Reddy Face-Off

Sparks Fly In Telangana As KTR, Revanth Reddy Face-Off

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Hyderabad: The feud between Telangana’s ruling Congress and the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi escalated Wednesday after Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and KT Rama Rao exchanged ugly insults. In a post on X Mr Rao referred to the Chief Minister as a “mad dog” that had “crossed every single limit of decency”. He said, “… I request his family members to take him to some mental health facility at the earliest or else, in his frustrated state, he might start biting everyone…” The attack came after Mr Reddy’s own crude comment at a public event in Hyderabad to hand job offers to 1,500 teachers – “‘those talking of stature will be sent on a stretcher to the morgue”. The reference was to BRS boss and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, or KCR. The exchange followed Mr Rao’s comment Tuesday that KCR, who is also his father, would not attend the budget session of the Assembly since none in the Congress can match his ‘stature’. This mad dog has crossed every single limit of decency I …