Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy told the officials to put an end to the culture of halting general traffic for the movement of the CM’s convoy of vehicles.
According to a statement from the chief minister’s office, he advised the police officials to take alternative measures, thereby preventing traffic jams or preventing the need to halt traffic.
He further ordered that the number of vehicles in the convoy be brought down to 9 compared to the current number of 15 vehicles.
Revanth remarked that he has to take extensive tours to find out the problems of the people on a personal level. In this context, he asked the cops to suggest steps to avoid troubling the general public during his commutes.
The Chief Minister’s direction to police officials came amid reports of the VIP movements during the last few days causing inconvenience to common people in Hyderabad.
Police were stopping traffic at various points to facilitate the movement of the convoy of the Chief Minister from his residence in Jubilee Hills to the State Secretariat, Assembly and other places in the state capital.
Revanth Reddy, who assumed office on December 7, is visiting the Secretariat every day to hold review meetings with officials. When the BRS was in power, he and other Congress leaders have been criticising then chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for not venturing out of his official residence to know people’s problems.
Police escort to CM’s brother
This also comes on the same day when the BRS and the BJP questioned the state government’s alleged move to provide a ‘police vehicle escort’ to Revanth’s brother, A Kondal Reddy.
BRS leader Krishank posted a video in which police vehicles can be seen escorting a car in which Kondal Reddy is seen travelling.
“He is not a Minister, not even an MLA, But he is escorted by Police Vehicle… Because he is Chief Minister’s brother? Is this Congress’s Prajala Paalana?” Krishank asked on X.
Adding to the BRS’ criticism, BJP MLA T Raja Singh also called the development ‘illegal’.
“It is wrong because his brother is neither an MLA nor an MP…It is illegal…All the ex-MLAs security has been removed. Former CM KCR’s security has been reduced to Y+…On what basis was his brother escorted?…”
(With inputs from IANS)
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