Revanth conspired to dissolve Siddipet district: Harish Rao

Former Minister T Harish Rao accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of planning to dissolve Siddipet district and merge it with neighbouring districts. He warned that people would launch a movement to protect Siddipet’s identity and development.

Siddipet: Former Minister T Harish Rao accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of conspiring to dissolve Siddipet district and merge it with Sangareddy and other neighbouring districts. Stating that the creation of Siddipet was a decades-old dream, Rao said that the people would not accept any such move.

Welcoming BJP Siddipet town president Patri Srinivas, senior leader Hanumantha Rao and their followers into the party fold here on Friday, Rao said the district would lose the medical college, the SP office, the Collector’s office, the irrigation department and other facilities if the district was dissolved. Rao asked Revanth to take him on directly if he had any political grudge against him, but not direct his ire against Siddipet or its people.

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Elaborating on the development works undertaken after district creation in 2016, the former minister said the town had become a new address for a development model in Telangana and neighbouring States. He said the district headquarters had a medical college, polytechnic college, women’s degree college, nursing college and many other institutions.

Rao said the town was also attracting a huge number of tourists as Komaticheruvu was developed into a tourist destination. Once known as a breeding ground for pigs, he said the town now had a well-built underground drainage system and was free of the pig problem. Rao said the district also had multiple reservoirs, which changed the face of irrigation. He said the people of Siddipet, who played a key role in the Telangana movement, were ready to launch another movement to keep Siddipet district intact.

Rao called upon the people to be ready to wage a battle against the Congress government until BRS Supremo gets back to power and to put an end to what he termed autocratic rule of the Congress. Earlier, the former minister also visited an oil palm factory at Narmetta.