HYDERABAD: The TRS government in Telangana used Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Hyderabad on Saturday to score a political point in their ongoing war of words over the state being ignored in allocation of key projects.
For starters, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao did not receive Modi at the airport as required by protocol. Instead, he sent his cabinet colleague Talasani Srinivas Yadav to the tarmac along with senior bureaucrats. He also skipped event at Muchintal where Modi unveiled a 216-feet tall Statue of Equality of Vedic philosopher Ramanujacharya. The chief minister did not even send his senior ministers to attend the function despite being closely associated with the project.