Was Revanth supposed to meet Mamdani? His office says tentative

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s visit to the United States potentially included a meeting with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on August 26, a tentative itinerary accessed The Chief Minister’s Office, when contacted, said the meeting was “tentative”. “There are a lot of events which are added to the schedule.

No official communication was exchanged between the Mayor of New York and CM’s office,” the CMO stated.

On why permission was denied for Reddy’s US visit, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had informed the media on Friday, “Clearance was given for his visit to the United Kingdom. Let me say that the visit of chief ministers, as indeed of other dignitaries, is assessed The program proposed, in such cases, should be appropriate to the office held and the purpose of the visit.

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In this particular case, that was not so in respect of the United States, and therefore the clearance was denied." On Saturday, the potential meeting snowballed into a row in Telangana. Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), the primary opposition, requested whether the Centre denied permission to Reddy because he may have met Mamdani. “What does ‘inappropriate’ mean?

Centre and state government must explain the cancellation of CM’s US visit,” BRS MLC Dr Dasoju Sravan said.” Arvind Dharmapuri, the BJP MP from Nizamabad, also waded into the development, saying, “Telangana deserves to know, what business did Revanth Reddy have with Mamdani? Just days ago, Mamdani skipped NYC's main India Day Parade but attended a Pakistan Day event and publicly praised the Pakistani community and its roots.” “Mamdani previously also wrote a personal letter, expressing solidarity, to Umar Khalid, an accused booked under the UAPA in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case,” he said.

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Reddy’s US plans The itinerary also indicates Reddy was supposed to meet and greet the Indian community at a programme organised Reddy was also supposed to visit Harvard University on August 25, where an MoU was to be signed, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, the Northeastern University, and Viginia Tech. The CM had earlier instructed the delegation to proceed with the US tour and to sign MoUs with top educational institutions in his absence.

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About his visit to the US, he had said, “The only purpose of the visit was to, as part of the Centre’s new education policy, bring the world’s best institutions to India, to Telangana, to Hyderabad. They would have been an answer to our youth’s aspirations to get education, skills, and training from the best Ivy Leagues and top global institutions.” “We will make Hyderabad a global knowledge hub.

The creation of universities from Osmania to HCU to JNTU et al made Hyderabad a hub for the best human resources. A single school, Hyderabad Public School, has shown how we can lead the world, producing some of the greatest tech leaders. The start of IIT, ISB, IIIT, and NALSAR helped Hyderabad attract top corporations and their GCCs.

Now, we will make Hyderabad the home for the world’s greatest education and skills institutions to power our 21st century journey,” he stated. Reddy said his resolve was to make Hyderabad one of the top global cities, “where any common Indian can get education and certificates from Harvard and Oxford, or MIT and LBS or LSE”.

“While most leaders want to send their children abroad, I want to bring the world’s best to India,” he said.