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CM’s absence from Sectt raises eyebrows
CM’s absence from Sectt raises eyebrows. Apparently being busy with several government-sponsored programmes that required him to tour extensively in districts and a slew of other official functions lines up, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s absence in the office has made to raise many an eyebrows of his critics and skeptics.
KCR visited his office just once in last month; Ministers followed suit
Hyderabad: Apparently being busy with several government-sponsored programmes that required him to tour extensively in districts and a slew of other official functions lines up, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s absence in the office has made to raise many an eyebrows of his critics and skeptics. As a matter of fact, the Chief Minister has made a very few visits, perhaps a single digit count, to the State administrative headquarters in the last one month.
His last big day in the Secretariat was the previous Cabinet meet on June 10. The Chief Minister who used to spend around seven to 10 hours each day in the Secretariat during the initial days and hold series of review meetings with various departments has been conspicuous of his absence for the past one month.
Apart from various district tours, he was reported to be unwell twice during the last one month. He spent some days in June last week in his farmhouse in Erravalli village in Medak district to personally monitor sowing of ginger seed. On June 12, he laid foundation stone for the prestigious Dindi project in Nalgonda district. He toured the temple town of Vemulawada in June third week announcing big development plans for the area.
On June 20 and 21, he held two-day marathon meetings with ten district collectors on Haritha Haaram and other flagship schemes at Marri Channa Reddy Institute in Jubilee Hills. After President Pranab Mukherjee’s arrival in the city on June 29, Rao attended the book release function of Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao on July 3 and accompanied him to Yadagirigutta on July 5 besides taking part in the ‘At Home’ programme hosted by Pranab Mukherjee.
In between, he toured most of the districts in north Telangana as well as Ranga Reddy district as part of the ongoing Haritha Haaram programme. With two Telugu speaking States involving in a slugfest for the last one month over cash-for-vote scam and Section-8 issue, Rao held several rounds of meetings with top police officials at his camp office.
As Chief Minister was not seen at the Secretariat, some of his Cabinet colleagues are too making ‘guest appearances’ in the State administrative headquarters. They come just before review meetings and leave immediately afterwards, according to sources.
This is in stark contrast to the earlier situation when they used to be present in the Secretariat for most part of the day and always prepared updates about various issues pertaining to their departments anticipating that the Chief Minister might summon them anytime to his chamber for information or details relating to their departments.
