Telangana CM Heads to Delhi for Crucial Meetings and International Engagements

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy left for Delhi on Friday to meet the high command against the backdrop of the January 29 elections to two seats in the Legislative Council from the MLA quota and the appointment of chairpersons for state-run corporations.

The last date for filing nominations for the MLC elections is January 18. The Chief Minister will leave for Davos and London on January 15.

Revanth Reddy will meet AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and K.C. Venugopal with regard to the MLC elections and the corporation appointments.

It is learnt that Revanth Reddy has proposed the names of G. Chinna Reddy, Addanki Dayakar and B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and has asked the party high command to choose two of them.

Revanth Reddy is also likely to discuss nominations for the two MLC posts that are vacant under the Governor's quota. He has reportedly proposed the names of TJS president Prof. M. Kodandaram and educationist Zafar Javeed, who runs the Sultan-ul-Uloom Education Society.

The EC has decided to hold elections separately for the two MLA-quota Legislative Council seats. The victory of the candidates fielded by the Congress, with 65 MLAs in the Assembly including a CPI legislator, is a foregone conclusion.

The election is likely to be unanimous as the main opposition BRS, which has 39 MLAs, is not keen on contesting the elections as it lacks the numbers to win even one seat.

At Davos, Revanth Reddy will take part in the annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF) from January 15 to 19, where he is likely to meet global business leaders and seek investments into Telangana state.

Later, he will visit London to study how River Thames was developed as a tourism hub, which he intends to replicate in Telangana by undertaking the Musi Riverfront development programme.