CM KCR unfurls flag at Pragati Bhavan

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao unfurled the national flag at his official residence Pragati Bhavan to mark the Republic Day.

The chief minister, who skipped the Republic Day event at Raj Bhavan, also paid tributes to the martyred soldiers. KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, garlanded the portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and architect of India's Constitution Dr B R Ambedkar and paid floral tributes to them. On this occasion, the chief minister remembered their services to the country.

Ministers Vemula Prashanth Reddy, Satyavathi Rathore, Chamakura Mallareddy, MLCs Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, Naveen Rao, Shambhipur Raju, Madhusudhana Chari, Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari, DGP Anjani Kumar, CMO senior officers, staff and many public representatives participated in this programme.

After unfurling the national flag, KCR visited the Army War Memorial in Secunderabad. He laid the wreath and paid floral tributes to the valiant soldiers. He remembered the sacrifices of fallen soldiers. Earlier, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan also visited the Army War Memorial and paid her tributes to war heroes. Both the governor and the chief minister greeted people on 74th Republic Day.

Kavitha's reaction on Twitter

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha on Thursday 'thanked' Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan for what she called "echoing the vision of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao."

Kavitha, daughter of the chief minister, took to Twitter to react to the Republic Day speech of the governor, who took a swipe at the chief minister.

"Choosing country's infrastructure over central vista during the pandemic, is what we demanded. Choosing farmers, labourers, unemployed youth over focusing on wealth generation for a few is exactly what we have been fighting for. Thank you for echoing the vision of CM KCR," wrote Kavitha, who is a member of Telangana Legislative Council.