Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao demanded that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy make a clear statement on when the government would clear the nearly ₹15,000 crore fee reimbursement dues, alleging that the Congress government was adopting a delaying tactic on an issue concerning lakhs of students.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP State office in Hyderabad on Saturday (September 12, 2026), Mr. Rao rejected the Chief Minister’s remarks in the Assembly on Friday that the BJP had failed to question the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government over fee reimbursement dues. He said that, as an MLC, he had raised the issue of fee reimbursement, student scholarships and the state of the education system in the Legislative Council as early as January 4, 2017, and that the proceedings would establish this.

Mr. Rao said the BRS government had accumulated about ₹5,430 crore in dues by the time the Congress came to power, according to figures cited by the present government in the Assembly. Another ₹6,037 crore had accumulated during the Congress government, he claimed.

The BJP leader said his party had no objection to the government adopting a direct benefit transfer (DBT) mechanism to credit the reimbursement amount directly into students’ accounts. “The government should tell students when the money will be credited,” he said.

Opposition to G.O. 97

Mr. Rao also criticised the government over G.O. 97 concerning the polytechnic education system, alleging that it was putting the future of polytechnic students at risk. He condemned the police action against polytechnic students who were staging protests over their future

The BJP president said party workers had visited colleges and collected signatures from around eight lakh students on petitions highlighting their problems. He alleged that the Chief Minister had not granted them an appointment to submit the petitions.

He accused the Congress and BRS of being “two sides of the same coin” and that they are shielding each other’s mistakes. If the Congress government was unable to clear the dues, it should admit it openly, he said.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday (September 5, 2026) appealed to teachers not to take to the streets over their grievances and sought two more years to address their problems, assuring that the government would resolve them based on the financial resources available.

Addressing a Teachers’ Day programme at the Government Junior College in Kodangal, Mr. Reddy quoted former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and said the future of students was in the hands of teachers. “Students spend more time with teachers than with their parents. The future of the country is in classrooms,” he said.

The Chief Minister said the State’s position in education had improved from 28th to 17th after the Congress government came to power and attributed the progress to the efforts of teachers. He said the number of students in government schools had increased by 88,000 over the past two years.

The State was also making rapid progress in technical education, with 95% admissions recorded in polytechnic colleges. The government, he said, was committed to promoting education, employment and livelihood opportunities along with welfare and development.

The Chief Minister cited the recruitment of 10,006 teachers through District Selection Committee (DSC) within 55 days, promotions given to 25,950 teachers and the transparent transfer of 34,706 teachers without major controversy as measures taken by his government. It had also resolved the issues relating to Government Order (G.O.) 317 and constituted an Education Commission to address teachers’ grievances, he said.

He said the government had sanctioned ₹6,000 crore towards pending retirement benefits of employees after the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government had left such benefits pending after increasing the retirement age.

Mr. Reddy also said the State government had sent teachers abroad at its own expense to study education systems, asking whether such an initiative had been undertaken by any other State. He said 123 teachers were being presented awards in recognition of their contribution to education.

The Chief Minister said the government aimed to strengthen the public education system from nursery to Class XII and make it competitive with private institutions.

Polytechnic colleges issue

Referring to the controversy surrounding polytechnic colleges, he urged teachers not to believe what he termed false propaganda and alleged that attempts were being made to use teachers to “blackmail” the government. He assured them that the doors of the government would always remain open to address their grievances.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) said that he has directed the Agriculture department officials to ensure that seeds of seven varieties of fine rice, for which the State Government is awarding ₹500 per quintal bonus, should be kept ready for farmers.

“These seeds should be provided at subsidised prices and they should be made available at Rythu Vedikas across the State. Steps should be taken to prepare data of farmers preferring cultivation of fine rice,” he said, adding the Agriculture “department should have thorough understanding of the crop yields.”

The CM said that he wanted the officials concerned to leverage technology in agriculture and extensively use the pilot project initiated in Dammapeta in Bhadradri Kothagudem district, promoting sustainable data driven farming practices in other places.

Officials could consider utilising Artificial Intelligence in farming practices and nominate the Agriculture University as nodal agency for development and deployment of technology in agriculture, he added.

The Agriculture department, Civil Supplies department and Agriculture University should work in close coordination from the sowing stage to procurement to help farmers, he said.

“Steps should be initiated to bring down losses of Markfed as also for strengthening Oilfed while a mobile application could be developed enabling farmers to get details of all kinds of fertilisers available. Farmers booking fertilisers through the App should be supplied the commodity through respective Rythu Vedikas and the additional collectors should be given the responsibility of urea distribution in their jurisdiction,” Mr. Reddy said.

Further, he emphasised that the concerned officials should be in constant touch with the Central Government on urea and fertiliser allocation to the State. “Pressure should be mounted on the Centre to supply entire fertilisers manufactured in the Ramagundam unit to Telangana. The district collectors should convene meetings with MPs of different political parties and explain them about the situation in the agriculture sector,” he said.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy asserted that the government would build religious structures pertaining to four faiths along the Musi river as part of the Musi Riverfront Development Project (MRDP) which will reflect the religious harmony the city represents.

Addressing a gathering after laying foundation for an ‘Omkareshwara Swamy Temple’ and Veerabhadra Swamy temple at Manchirevula on Saturday (March 28, 2026), Mr. Revanth Reddy said a mosque akin to Mecca Masjid is scheduled to be constructed near Charminar, besides a Gurdwara at the scale of Golden Temple of Amritsar at Sikh Chawni in Gowliguda, and a church as big as the famous Medak Cathedral on the Nagole-Uppal stretch.

Speaking of the temple, he said it will be modelled after the famous Ramappa Temple of Warangal, and will be developed as ‘Dakshina Kashi’. It is coming up on eight acres of land at an expenditure of ₹700 crore.

The Chief Minister lambasted the opposition referring to the case filed against the MRDP in the National Green Tribunal by the son of a ‘sister from the region’, in obvious reference to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader P.Sabitha Indra Reddy, and vowed that the government would forge ahead with the project come what may. He issued a veiled warning to the BRS without mentioning its name, saying the party will lose the existing status too if it goes against the project.

“The government will perform ‘Shivatandavam’ if anybody tries to stall the project for political benefits,” he said.

Earlier, he elaborated on how city civilisations developed on the seashores and along river banks, and said Delhi is unable to function as the national capital owing to pollution. Maintaining that we should learn from big cities and move forward by addressing important issues like air and water pollution, he said pollution levels reached alarming levels in Musi, due to which people of Nalgonda district are suffering, he said.

Trade and economic development have taken place on sea coasts, providing employment to many. Calling Telangana ‘the only landlocked state’ in the country, Mr.Revanth Reddy said that the objective of the Musi project is to revive Musi and Esi rivers which turned into dumps due to human error.

Mr. Revanth Reddy also laid foundation for construction of a modern Gaushala (cow shelter) at Yenkapally village of Moinabad mandal, Ranga Reddy district.