AI and Kancha Gachibowli: BRS MLA Jagadish Reddy ridicules Revanth Reddy’s remarks
Terms them laughable and disconnected from ground reality, says Congress government deliberately peddling misleading narratives
Hyderabad: Former Minister and senior BRS MLA G Jagadish Reddy ridiculed Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over his recent remarks that the Kancha Gachibowli issue was an artificially created one on social media using Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated videos and images.
Reacting to statements made during a high-level review meeting chaired by the Chief Minister, Jagadish Reddy termed them laughable and disconnected from ground reality.
“Are the cries of peacocks, the deaths of deer, bulldozers clearing forest cover and police lathi charges creations of AI?” he asked, stating that the Congress government was deliberately peddling misleading narratives, making a mockery of Telangana and its people.
He denounced the Chief Minister’s proposal to build an AI university in the proposed Future City, questioning whether such plans were being used to deflect attention from the ongoing environmental crisis. On the government’s claims of AI-generated images and videos about flora and fauna, he asked “Was AI born in Kancha Gachibowli? Was stray dogs killing the deer also AI-generated? What does AI have to do with this ecological disaster?” he asked.
Jagadish Reddy also took a jibe at the Congress leadership’s handling of student protests, stating that underestimating students and citizens was a grave mistake. He charged the Revanth Reddy government with ignoring even the Supreme Court’s directions.
The BRS MLA warned that the State’s image was at stake, asserting that the government’s attempts to relocate the University of Hyderabad or justify forest clearance under the guise of development would backfire legally and politically.
“Revanth Reddy’s approach is like prescribing medicines without diagnosing the disease,” he said, adding that the Chief Minister should have reconsidered his decisions the moment the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the issue. Jagadish also suggested that, if genuinely committed to IT development, the government could allocate 400-acre land parcels near the proposed Fourth City instead of disturbing ecologically sensitive zones.