Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy paid tributes with floral offerings at the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on the Tank Bund on his 133rd birth anniversary on Sunday.
Mr. Reddy was accompanied by Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender, Rajya Sabha member Anil Kumar Yadav and party leaders such as Rohin Reddy and Vijaya Reddy. Interestingly, he chose the Ambedkar statue on the Tank Bund road instead of the 125-foot one just a few hundred metres away.
The 125-foot statue was inaugurated by former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao during his regime and party sources said that Mr. Reddy opted for the Ambedkar statue on the Tank Bund road to avoid references to the previous BRS regime. The Tank Bund statue was the most popular one till the huge statue was erected near the Secretariat.