KTR asked if the chief minister was willing to go to jail if it was proved that the latter had posted a fake notice.
Published May 03, 2024 | 2:39 PM ⚊ Updated May 03, 2024 | 2:39 PM
BRS working president KTR. (X)
BRS working president KT Rama Rao has accused Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of posting a fake notice on social media, claiming to be from the Osmania University’s chief warden.
Rama Rao, popularly known as KTR, also said the chief minister posted the alleged fake notice even before the arrest of BRS social media convener Manne Krishank on 1 May.
He asked if the chief minister was willing to go to jail if it was proved that the latter had posted a fake notice.
Krishank was intercepted and arrested at Panthangi in the Nalgonda district for posting the fake notice. The notice and the subsequent arrest have become a controversy in election-bound Telangana.
The alleged fake notice said the post-graduate hostels would be closed and there was an acute power and water shortage. The warden’s actual notice was about the summer vacation of the mess facility.
Reacting to Krishank’s arrest on Thursday, 3 May, KTR sought to know why he was arrested for questioning the fake document the chief minister had posted.
KTR claimed that the chief warden issued a notice on 18 March saying the hostels would be closed due to water and power shortages.
The Osmania students protested against the closure, and the BRS chief, K Chandrashekar Rao, termed the Congress government incompetent since it could not address a simple issue like power and water supply.
Soon after KCR’s message on the X went viral, the chief warden was issued a show-cause notice while the power supply provider said that there was no shortage.
Interestingly, KTR said the university students posted the original notice issued last year which never said the hostels were being shut down because of problem in power and water supply. It proved that Revanth Reddy’s document was fake, KTR argued.
KTR said the BRS would legally fight to get bail for Krishank and wondered what mistake the social media convener had committed to be arrested in this fashion.
“Is it because he was speaking the truth,” he asked and said he was ready to go to jail if he was proved wrong in his contention that the document posted by the chief minster was fake.
KTR also wanted to know if Revanth Reddy was ready to go to jail if his document was proved fake.
In the statement that accompanied the “fake order,” the chief minister said that BRS has been indulging in Goebbelsian propaganda against him and his government.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
