Food poisoning cases show ‘Vision 2047 has become Poison 2047’: Harish Rao

BRS MLA T. Harish Rao slammed Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Rahul Gandhi over repeated food poisoning incidents in government schools, alleging negligence and poor food quality, after visiting affected students undergoing treatment in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad: BRS MLA and former Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday lambasted Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over food poisoning cases in the government-run schools in the State.

Revanth Reddy keeps boasting about “Telangana Vision 2047”, he said, adding that, “This is not Vision 2047 — it has turned into Poison 2047 for students”.

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Harish Rao, along with BRS MLAs Kaleru Venkatesh and Muta Gopal, visited Telangana Minority Welfare Residential School Bagh Lingampally students who are undergoing treatment at Government Hospital King Koti here for food poisoning. He enquired with doctors about the medical treatment being provided to children.

Following the visit, Harish Rao came down heavily on the State government, alleging that Revanth Reddy has become “poison for children”.

Harish Rao said food poisoning cases were being reported in some or other government-run schools every day, citing Friday’s case of food poisoning incidents at Minority Welfare School in Bagh Lingampally and Government School Chandu Nayak Thanda in Madhapur. He also pointed out a recent incident of BC Welfare Residential School Shameerpet students approaching police over worms in rice.

While students were served quality food made with fine rice during the former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao led BRS government, now children in government-run schools were living with their lives constantly at risk due to food issues, he said.

“Now students are complaining that they are being served with coarse rice, which is not cooked properly, and inadequate meals,” he said.

Stating that Revanth Resdy visited Delhi 61 times in the last two years, Harish Rao said the Chief Minister did not visit students who fell ill due to food issues on several occasions.

Harish Rao took a dig at Telangana Congress government’s slogan “Telangana Rising”, stating that it exists only in TV and newspaper advertisements, but in reality, gurukul and government school students were falling in hospitals.

“ What is rising is corruption, lawlessness, arrogance and land grabbing in the State,” he said.

The former Minister questioned Rahul Gandhi, who took the responsibility of six guarantees implementation, for not visiting the State when 300 farmers, 160 auto drivers, and 116 students died in the State.

Despite there being several issues in the State, Rahul Gandhi was now visiting the State just to watch a football match with famous football player Lionel Messi, he said.

“When students are suffering after eating rice full of worms in Gurukul schools, don’t you have the responsibility to question your Chief Minister, Revanth Reddy,” he asked the Congress MP.

Stating that Chief Minister and Education Minister Revanth Reddy utterly failed, Harish Rao said instead of boasting about a three-trillion-dollar economy and Future City, the Chief Minister should first ensure hostel children are served rice without worms.