BRS leaders file PIL in Telangana High Court against Revanth Reddy govt’s appointment of 16 advisors with cabinet Rank
BRS leaders have filed a PIL in the Telangana High Court challenging the appointment of 16 advisors with Cabinet rank by the Congress government. They allege the move is unconstitutional, financially wasteful and amounts to creating an extra-constitutional authority without public mandate.
Hyderabad: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed by the BRS leaders including Errolla Srinivas in the Telangana High Court challenging the Congress government’s appointment of 16 government advisors with Cabinet minister rank and perks.
Addressing a news conference at Telangana Bhavan, BRs leader Errolla Srinivas termed it “unconstitutional” and a “gross misuse of public money. He launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, accusing him of running a “parallel secret cabinet” and violating the spirit of the Indian Constitution.
The appointment of 16 advisors (14 as per some statements) with Cabinet rank is unconstitutional and creates an extra-constitutional authority. Many of these advisors did not contest elections and they have no public mandate. The BRS leader said the government is deliberately hiding several Government Orders (GOs) related to these appointments from the public domain.
Public funds are being misused to pay Cabinet-level salaries, perks, staff, and security to these advisors. When K. Chandrashekhar Rao appointed a few IAS officers as advisors during the previous BRS regime, Revanth Reddy had then called it “destruction of the Constitution.”
BRS leaders questioned why the same Revanth Reddy is now appointing 14–16 political loyalists as advisors with Cabinet status. One of the advisors, Vem Narendra Reddy, was specifically named and accused of being involved in the “vote-for-note” scandal.
For the first 18 months, the Congress government ran the state with only 11 ministers plus the CM. There is still no dedicated Home Minister, and law and order has completely collapsed, the BRS leaders claimed.
The Minority Welfare department has no full-time minister till recently for the first time in the state’s history. Former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin was allegedly given ministerial status only because of the upcoming Jubilee Hills by-election. Errolla Srinivas demanded that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy tender an “unconditional apology” to the four crore people of Telangana for “unermining the Constitution”.
