Modi’s appeal not to buy gold and avoid foreign tours reflects inability to handle crisis: Telangana CM

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s entreaty to radical to desist from buying golden and avoiding overseas vacations arsenic a implicit nonaccomplishment of the Modi-led Central government.

“Such statements reflected the ‘complete failure’ of the Modi government. Telling radical not to bargain golden oregon question by aerial is thing but an admittance of the Centre’s inability to negociate the concern and its policies,” helium remarked.

In an informal chat with reporters astatine his residence connected Monday (May 11, 2026), helium accused the Centre of failing successful overseas argumentation and attempting to divert nationalist attraction from rising economical hardships. His absorption was successful effect to Mr. Modi’s entreaty asking citizens to debar unnecessary expenditure, including buying golden and aerial travel, during his sojourn to Telangana connected Sunday.

Mr. Reddy alleged that the BJP-led Union authorities had pushed the state into situation owed to “inexperience and arrogance.” He said the Centre lacked a wide overseas argumentation and criticised its handling of planetary affairs. Congress person Rahul Gandhi had been informing the authorities astir these issues from the beginning, helium said.

Convene all-party meeting

Mr. Reddy said the Centre should instrumentality suggestions from Opposition parties and convene an all-party gathering to sermon the prevailing situation. “The authorities has nary wide argumentation direction. Instead of addressing the existent issues, they are trying to screen up their failures done nationalist appeals,” helium said, terming the determination “irresponsible.”

In a sarcastic remark aimed astatine the BJP, the Chief Minister compared the party’s predetermination strategies to a “Gemini Circus”, alleging that the BJP changes tactics from State to State for governmental gains.

He besides criticised the Centre excess fertiliser distribution,

Referring to the BJP’s electoral show successful confederate States, helium pointed retired that the enactment won lone 3 seats successful Kerala and 2 successful Tamil Nadu, claiming that the BJP was relying connected different methods to grow politically.

SIR being utilized selectively: Revanth

Mr. Reddy further alleged that the BJP was utilizing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls arsenic a governmental weapon. He claimed that nearly 90 lakh votes were removed successful West Bengal and alleged that the workout was being utilized selectively successful States wherever the BJP aimed to summation governmental advantage.

“Wherever the BJP wants to triumph elections, the SIR process is being implemented aggressively,” helium alleged. However, successful Kerala, it was not palmy successful pushing SIR owed to the beardown beingness of the Congress party. “BJP is succeeding lone successful the States wherever the Congress was not strong.”