Congress leaders occupy front row, Collector pushed back in Sangareddy event

The Sangareddy Collector Prateek Jain was denied protocol priority during Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s public meeting at Ambedkar Stadium, where Congress leaders without official positions occupied the front row. Officials expressed dismay, noting repeated instances of humiliation of the Collector and other department staff at government programmes.

Sangareddy: Congress government has been humiliating the district collectors by ignoring the protocol during the official meetings organised at government expense. Following the protocol of meetings at district level, the Collectors must be made to sit in the first line even during the Chief Minister’s and Ministers meetings organised by the government departments.

He must be given priority after the Chief Minister, and Ministers unless any senior IAS officer attends the meeting. However, the Sangareddy Collector Prateek Jain was made to sit in the second row during the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s public meeting held at Ambedkar Stadium on Saturday.

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While Prateek Jain was sitting in the second row, Congress leaders like T Jagga Reddy, A Chandrasekhar and several other leaders, who were holding no protocol positions, were made to sit in the first row. Shockingly, Revanth Reddy, his cabinet colleagues Uttam Kumar Reddy, Damodara Rajanarasimha and G Vivekananda did not even utter Prateek Jain’s name even though he and his team worked for a week to make arrangements for the programme.

While the programme was organized at the expense of the civil supplies department, Congress leader Jagga Reddy, his wife Nirmala, son and daughter stole the show.

It is not the first time that the Collector is being ignored by the ministers, who have humiliated the Collector multiple times. The officials of all the departments at Collectorate in Sangareddy were discussing the treatment that meted out to the Collector and other officials. The entire official machinery was feeling humiliated with such treatment.

During a groundbreaking ceremony of KJC India Private Limited organised in May 2026, the Ministers G Sridhababu and Damodara Rajanarasimha did not utter even the Collector’s name. Furthermore, the ministers, who held a review meeting at Jagga Reddy’s residence on the same day, forced the Collector and other officials to attend at the private place.

It is not only the Collector, the entire revenue and other department officials were feeling humiliated at the hands of Congress leaders. Congress leaders are also ill-treating the police officials as well. It is only at district level, the Congress leaders were behaving similarly at mandal and village level, taking a queue from the Chief Minister, Ministers and MLAs.