After the meeting, the Hyderabad Mayor reiterated her allegiance to the BRS and former chief minister and party president, Chandrashekar Rao.
BRS leader and Mayor of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Gadwal Vijayalaxmi called on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday, 3 February, even as the latter continued his tirade against the pink party.
Vijayalaxmi’s meeting came close on the heels of Revanth Reddy’s hard-hitting speech at Indravelli in the erstwhile Adilabad district, against K Chandrashekar Rao for “plundering” Telangana to feather his nest at the expense of the people.
The Chief Minister said KCR would never become even a minister — let alone becoming the chief minister — once again and asked his party cadres to tie the BRS leaders to neem trees and thrash them if they ever bragged about pulling down the Congress government.
Even before the effect of Revanth Reddy’s speech wore off, Vijayalaxmi called on the Chief Minister and discussed the need for constituting standing committees in the GHMC which has been kept on hold for the last five months and also due to the election code.
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CM responds positively to Mayor
She wanted the chief minister’s intervention to clear the deck for the presentation of the GHMC budget before the code of conduct comes into effect for the Lok Sabha elections.
According to the BRS sources, the Chief Minister responded positively to the issues that the mayor had raised. The Chief Minister immediately called the GHMC commissioner D Ronald Rose and asked him to take action on the issues the mayor had brought to his notice.
Later, Vijayalaxmi said she met the Chief Minister to sort out the administrative issues in the GHMC and that nothing more should be read into it. She had met the Chief Minister since he has been holding the Municipal Administration portfolio.
The Hyderabad Mayor reiterated her allegiance to the BRS and the former chief minister and party president, Chandrashekar Rao.
She called on the Chief Minister after KCR had told his MLAs and leaders on 1 February that there was nothing wrong if they met Congress leaders or the Chief Minister but they should do so in the public to avoid speculations.
The former chief minister, interacting with the MLAs and party leaders after taking oath as Gajwel MLA, said that the party leadership should be kept in the loop whenever they intended to meet the Congress leaders to discuss development works.
The former chief minister suggested in the wake of four BRS MLAs as one group and one BRS MLA individually calling on the Chief Minister recently, which led to speculation that they were considering switching political allegiance.
Revanth Reddy, at a recent press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, said that he was available all the time for any MLA or any leader of any party to call on him on people’s issues.
He had said he was ready to receive even KCR or KTR or Harish Rao if they had to make any representation to him.