Food poisoning: As Congress Ministers blame BRS, Congress leaders expose truth

Congress MLAs and elected public representatives have inadvertently exposed their own government's shortcomings with inspections in schools, where they found that the charges by the BRS that poor quality food being served to students was in fact, true.

Hyderabad: Even as a few Ministers were trying to deflect the blame of the frequent food poisoning incidents in State-run schools from the Congress government by churning out conspiracy theories, Congress MLAs and elected public representatives have inadvertently exposed their own government’s shortcomings with inspections in schools, where they found that the charges by the BRS that poor quality food being served to students was in fact, true.

Munugode MLA Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy made a surprise inspection to the Mahatma Jyothibha Phule BC Girls Gurukul hostel in the town, where he tasted the food and got irked over the poor quality. Despite the Congress government increasing the mess charges, the quality of food was not being improved by the agencies entrusted with cooking mid-day meals, he said. He also expressed dissatisfaction over the officials failing to monitor the quality of food being served to students.

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Similarly, videos of Congress MLA from Alair, Beerla Illaiah expressing unhappiness over the quality of food served to students have gone viral on social media platforms. In one such video, Illaiah is seen checking the quality of sambar and fuming over the school management for poor standard food being served to students. He also fumes at the cook for chewing gutkha in the kitchen.

On Thursday, Congress MLC Jeevan Reddy inspected a kitchen in a school at Jagtial. During the inspection, the MLC checked the quality of rice, sambar and butter milk. He found that the rice was half-cooked and instructed the school staff and cook to replace the food immediately and assured to take up the issue with the government.