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Adi Srinivas Challenges KCR Over Assembly Absence and Agitations
Adi Srinivas, a government leader, criticised former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
He said KCR talks about protests but does not attend the Assembly.
Srinivas also alleged that KCR is giving BRS lawmakers false hopes.
He said this may be intended to stop them from leaving the party.
Srinivas rejected KCR’s explanation that the Chief Minister used abusive language.
He said statements in the Assembly are recorded and challenged KCR to identify improper remarks.
Srinivas also criticised KCR’s comments about two irrigation projects.
He asked KCR and other BRS leaders to come to the Assembly and debate public issues.
Government Whip Adi Srinivas criticised BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday.
Srinivas alleged that KCR was avoiding the Assembly while promising direct agitations.
He accused KCR of misleading BRS MLAs to prevent defections from the party.
Srinivas challenged KCR to identify any unparliamentary remarks by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
He also criticised KCR’s proposed irrigation-project visits and urged him to attend Assembly debates.
- Who
- Government Whip Adi Srinivas criticised BRS president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, along with other BRS leaders.
- What
- Srinivas accused KCR of avoiding the Assembly, misleading BRS MLAs and making unsupported claims about agitations and Assembly language.
- Where
- The remarks concerned the Assembly, KCR’s farmhouse, and the Kaleshwaram and Palamuru-Rangareddy irrigation projects.
- When
- Sunday; no specific date was provided.
- Why
- Srinivas urged KCR to attend the Assembly and defended the Congress government’s record under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
Adi Srinivas and Congress Government
KCR and BRS Position
Assembly participation
Adi Srinivas and Congress Government
Srinivas said KCR had been unable to attend the Assembly and should come to the House to discuss public issues.
KCR and BRS Position
KCR was described as claiming that he would launch direct agitations and as giving reasons for not attending the Assembly, including alleged abusive language by the Chief Minister.
BRS party unity
Adi Srinivas and Congress Government
Srinivas alleged that KCR was misleading BRS MLAs with false hopes to keep them from defecting.
KCR and BRS Position
The article presents KCR’s reported efforts to retain BRS MLAs but does not include a direct response from him to Srinivas’s allegation.
Irrigation projects
Adi Srinivas and Congress Government
Srinivas called Kaleshwaram an alleged centre of corruption and said the Palamuru-Rangareddy project was neglected under the previous BRS regime.
KCR and BRS Position
KCR’s proposed visits to the two projects suggest that the BRS intends to raise or examine issues concerning them, though the article does not provide a direct response from KCR.
Key facts
- Speaker
- Adi Srinivas, Government Whip
- Main target
- K. Chandrasekhar Rao, BRS president and former Chief Minister
- Dispute
- KCR’s alleged absence from the Assembly and proposed direct agitations
- Assembly claim
- Srinivas said every word spoken in the House is recorded
- Projects discussed
- Kaleshwaram and Palamuru-Rangareddy irrigation projects
- Government defended
- The Congress government led by A. Revanth Reddy
- Srinivas’s appeal
- KCR and BRS leaders should attend the Assembly and debate public issues










