"Not even one in state...": Telangana CM meets Rajnath Singh demands for Sainik schools
Jun 24, 2024
New Delhi [India], June 25 : Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Monday said that various key issues were discussed during his meeting with Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Manohar Lal Khattar while highlighting that he demanded the setting up of Sainik schools in the State.
Telangana CM said that the discussions also centered around 2492 acres of land provided by Telanagna government to the defence sector, but the state has not received the land that was promised by the Centre in return.
"We met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on behalf of the Telangana government. We gave 2492 acres of land to the Defence, but we had not received the land that we were supposed to receive in return. We met the Defence Minister to talk about that. Every state has Sainik schools, but there is not even one in Telangana. We also demanded that," Reddy told reporters.
"From Manohar Lal Khattar, we spoke about the riverfront, metro and houses under PM Awas Yojana," he added.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the Telangana government has requested for Gurukul school and many other things.
"Regarding the defence we have requested that we need to have one Gurkul school... We requested the Defence Minister to consider our issue as a pre-resolution thing... The other was about 2000 plus acres of land around Hyderabad, which was the defense land that we requested for the development of Telangana... Regarding the meeting with Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, we have two smart cities in Telangana other than Hyderabad. They are the major two-tier cities of Warangal and Karimnagar... The past government didn't procure the funds from the central government... We requested for the disbursement of teh funds quickly so that faster development can take place," Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy said.
Telangana CM was accompanied by Congress MPs from Telangana, Mallu Ravi, Raghurami Reddy, Balaram Naik, Suresh Shatkar, Raghuveer Reddy, Chamala Kiran Reddy, Kadyam Kavya, Gaddam Vamsi and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav during the meeting with the Defence Minister.
On meeting with the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Power Manohar Lal Khattar, the Telangana CM said, "With Manohar Lal Khattar, we spoke about the riverfront, metro and houses under PM Awas Yojana."
Khattar also shared pictures of the meeting in a post on X with a caption that read, "Pleased to meet Chief Minister of Telangana, @revanth_anumula who paid a courtesy visit along with his delegation."
