KCR to skip Modi's events on April 8
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: While the Chief Minister's Office received invitations from Union ministries inviting Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to participate in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's launch of development programmes in Telangana on April 8 in Hyderabad, sources said the Chief Minister will not attend the Prime Minister’s official programmes. According to sources, Chandrashekar Rao would not receive Modi at the airport or attend the Prime Minister's official events, especially at this time when the BRS and BJP were embroiled in a bitter political battle over the leakage of TSPSC and SSC question papers and the subsequent arrest of BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar in the SSC question paper leakage case. Instead, Chandrashekar Rao is likely to depute ministers Vemula Prashanth Reddy and Talasani Srinivas Yadav for the Prime Minister’s programmes in the city, party insiders disclosed. However, the Chief Minister has not been receiving the Prime Minister since February 5, 2022, when he arrived in Hyderabad to inaugurate the ‘Statue of Equality’ at Chinna Jeeyar Swamy ashram on the city outskirts and to take part in the diamond jubilee celebrations of ICRISAT.