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The Hindu
The Hindu
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Swathi Vadlamudi

Amid the glitter of celebration, denial of dissent is the irony of emerging Telangana

Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao bedazzled everyone over a month ago, inaugurating the aesthetically designed new State Secretariat complex. The very next day, an Opposition leader — MP and Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee chief A.Revanth Reddy — was stopped from entering the august premises. The reason given was that he hadn’t taken permission from the official whom he wanted to meet.

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The Secretariat building remains fortified not only against the Opposition, but also mediapersons, who had unlimited access to all departments in the old secretariat complex. A media point is created outside now, and journalists need prior permission to access any department.

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