Twitter war breaks out between KTR and Mansukh Mandaviya over medical colleges in Telangana

It began on Sunday, with KTR saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not sanctioned any medical college for the state.

BySumit Jha

Published Aug 30, 2022 | 8:33 AM ⚊UpdatedAug 30, 2022 | 8:33 AM

KTR Mansukh Mandaviya

A Twitter war breaks out between Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao on medical colleges in the state. (Twitter/KTR/MansukhMandaviya)

A Twitter war is on between Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Telangana Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao over the medical colleges in the state.

KTR on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not sanctioned any medical college for the state, “while In the last eight years, 16 new Medical colleges sanctioned & 13 more to be set up making it one medical college per district,” tweeted KTR.

Hitting back at KTR, Mandaviya on Monday said no formal proposal was ever received from the state for setting up new medical colleges there.

“How many proposals for medical colleges have been sent by your Telangana State Government? ‘Zero’ PM @NarendraModi Ji has sanctioned the highest government medical colleges in the shortest time, without partiality, to those states who made proposal,” Tweeted Mansukh Mandaviya.

KTR, who is Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s son, was quick to counter-attack the Union Health Minister and posted two communications from former Union health ministers to the state government in 2015 and 2019.

“Telangana Government has consistently requested for medical colleges, but fact is your Government delivered ZERO,” tweeted KTR.

Here are the string of Tweets:

KTR also tweeted that before you (Mansukh Mandviya) jump up & respond, let me also remind you that your government failed to even fill the 544 Jobs Vacant in AIIMS Bibinagar. “AIIMS was sanctioned during the UPA Govt & the fact is not ONE educational institution was sanctioned by NPA Govt; neither by your Dept nor by HRD,” tweeted KTR.

Mandaviya posted a previous communication by his predecessor Harsh Vardhan in August 2019 to Telangana asking it to send a detailed project report on the state government’s request for upgradation of existing district hospitals into medical colleges in two districts of Telangana, as per the guidelines, for consideration.

“With all due respect, kindly read the 3rd para of the letter of my predecessor, and the reply recently given in the Parliament. Kindly try to understand that Centre has always requested and guided Telangana state to send a formal proposal with DPR as per scheme requirements,” said Mansukh Mandaviya.

“There is a difference between sending a simple letter and a formal proposal according to the scheme requirements,” said Mandaviya.

We await KTR’s response.

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