Case of kettle calling pot black: Revanth Reddy’s Kodangal development exposes his double standards

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will be unveiling projects and works worth Rs 4369.143 crore in his native constituency of Kodangal on Wednesday.

This surely seems to be a case of the proverbial kettle calling pot black. For not long ago, in November 2023, the Chief Minister, as the TPCC chief, in the full heat of the elections, had a different opinion about the development of the so-called “BRS family-ruled constituencies” of Gajwel, Sircilla and Siddipet represented by then CM K Chandrashekar Rao, ministers KT Rama Rao and T Harish Rao.

Addressing a public meeting in Kodangal on November 6, 2023, Revanth Reddy pointed out that KCR had promised Krishna railway line, junior and PG colleges, and Krishna water to Kodangal ,but failed to fulfill any of the promises made in these eight years.

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“Why development was limited to Sircilla, Siddipet, and Gajwel? Why not Kodangal? I challenged KCR to contest in Kodangal. However, he did not accept my challenge as he never developed this region," he had said adding that the election was between KCR and the people of Kodangal

KCR, winding up his campaign at Gajwel on November 28, 2023, assured the voters that he would take the development of the constituency to a new level. The two-time Gajwel MLA, at that time, had said that he had solved the drinking water and irrigation problems, and achieved a rail connection. He was proud of the Mission Bhagiratha project at Komatibnda, mother reservoir Mallannasagar of the KLIP, and forest restoration projects that the then CM brought home as a responsible MLA of his constituency.

Former Minister KTR too nurtured his constituency Sircilla. He got a textile park sanctioned and saw to it that the weavers in his constituency found round-the-year work by handing over Batukamma saree production to power-loom workers of Sircilla. KTR succeded in weavers finding themselves to gain full employment locally.

T Harish Rao was also passionate about the development of his constituency, Siddipet. As a true people’s representative, he had secured a medical college, railway line, and canal irrigation in a predominantly rainfed region.

Just like Chief Minister Revanth Reddy would love to see the transformation of his constituency Kodangal, the MLAs of Gajwel, Sircilla, and Siddipet too promised development to the people of their respective constituencies and did their best, while not forgetting their responsibility as the Chief Minister and Cabinet Ministers.

While no one should question the Chief Minister for wanting to develop a backward region like Kodangal, he must also realise that others also have a responsibility towards the people those elected them in the first place. For a State like Telangana, which was made to suffer for decades without development of any part, must be considered as development of the entire State.

The development programmes for which Revanth Reddy will be laying foundation stone includ the Narayanpet-Kodangal lift irrigation project, medical, nursing, and physiotherapy colleges, and many more on a single day.

This reminds one of the famous lines of George Orwell in his ‘Animal Farm’:

“...out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs...out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.”