KTR blames CM Revanth Reddy for failure to get HMR Phase-II approval

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Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao blamed Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for the Centre’s denial of support to the Phase-II of Hyderabad Metro Rail task truthful far, stating that it is simply a glaring illustration of the Congress government’s incompetence and inability to safeguard the interests of Telangana.

He alleged that contempt making 71 visits to New Delhi, the Chief Minister has failed to unafraid the Centre’s support for Metro Phase-II, exposing his ineffective leadership. The Chief Minister lacks the courageousness to question Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Government owed to governmental compulsions arising from the alleged ‘cash-for-vote’ lawsuit pending against him.

“While the Central authorities has approved metro projects for cities specified arsenic Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and others, the Telangana authorities has failed to get clearance for HMR Phase-II. The Chief Minister owes an mentation to the radical of Hyderabad wherefore helium could not unafraid this important project”, Mr. Rama Rao said successful a connection connected Monday.

Unable to question the Centre implicit its favoritism against Telangana, Mr. Revanth Reddy was resorting to the inexpensive maneuver of blaming the absorption BRS to divert nationalist attraction from his ain failures, the BRS person said. Mr. Reddy had entered into a covert knowing with the BJP and that was the crushed wherefore his repeated visits to Delhi had yielded nary results.

Recollecting the Chief Minister’s ain remarks that helium was treated dismissively during his visits to Delhi, Mr. Rama Rao said it would bespeak his inability to efficaciously correspond the State’s interests earlier the Centre.

“The radical of Hyderabad merit answers arsenic to wherefore approvals and fiscal enactment that were secured swiftly during the BRS authorities are present being delayed nether the Congress administration”, helium said and asserted that the recognition for successfully completing the HMR task belongs wholly to erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao.

The Congress authorities was prioritising metro connectivity to a ‘non-existent imaginary city’ driven by idiosyncratic interests alternatively of focusing connected routes that would payment the public, Mr. Rama Rao alleged. He accused the Chief Minister of shelving the Phase-II task implicit the past two-and-a-half years and reiterated that the cancellation of the Shamshabad Metro corridor soon aft assuming bureau was a betrayal of Hyderabad’s residents.

He demanded that the State authorities instantly clarify its roadmap for Metro Phase-II and guarantee that Hyderabad’s semipermanent proscription needs were not compromised.

Published - June 15, 2026 09:05 p.m. IST

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