Overview
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has instructed Congress workers to hold six days of protests across Telangana and to demand BRS leader K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s resignation as Leader of the Opposition for largely staying away from public duties.
- Revanth publicly quantified costs he says result from KCR’s absence, saying the ex‑chief minister drew about ₹1.24 crore in salary over the past 1,000 days and that security and facilities cost roughly ₹22 crore.
- Union minister G. Kishan Reddy and BJP leaders have attacked both BRS and Congress for alleged graft and heavy borrowing, with Kishan Reddy saying the state has run up a large debt that he described as unsustainable.
- The BJP launched a 10‑day ‘Ballari Chalo’ padayatra in Karnataka on Tuesday to highlight alleged corruption in the Congress government while in Telangana the party accused the state administration of curbing dissent after N. Ramchander Rao was detained when he tried to visit Nalgonda.
- Facts and figures in the dispute are contested between parties, the Haldwani ritual and FIR against Rahul Gandhi have nationalised protests by Congress units, and the campaigns now set the political backdrop for the Assembly session beginning September 7.