Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has drawn robust backlash on social media over a comment about minority college students, claiming that they will reassemble a Rafale fighter plane however “overlook classes from books”.
Talking on the Minorities Excellence Summit at Adivasi Bhavan in Banjara Hills on Thursday, August 13, Reddy mentioned youngsters from minority communities have been “expert labourers”, who’re able to studying by sensible expertise reasonably than from books.
“College students from the minority establishments can reassemble a Rafale fighter if they’re requested to. Nonetheless, they overlook classes from books,” Reddy mentioned.
His remarks have left minorities greatly surprised, with a number of questioning the logic behind it. The Rafale, a excessive grade militiary plane, requires specialised technical data to assemble, making his declare ridiculous that college students might probably reassemble one whereas being unable to retain what they be taught from books.
A number of social media customers have criticised the Chief Minister’s remarks, questioning his intent in making a sweeping characterisation of minority college students at an occasion meant to rejoice their excellence. A number of statements from Reddy’s occasion appeared to stem from stereotypes, usually propagated by the correct wing, portraying the neighborhood as extra appropriate for handbook work over lecturers.
His remarks have turn into a topic of ridicule and outrage on social media, with customers questioning how a Chief Minister might make generalisations concerning the academic talents of a whole neighborhood.
Additional, they’ve stirred a row as they have been delivered whereas addressing candidates who had labored to qualify for aggressive examinations, drawing criticism over what will be termed not solely as a poor selection of phrases however an insult to the scholars whose achievements the occasion was meant to recognise.
‘Minorities benefited most’ from free energy
Reddy made one other controversial declare whereas talking concerning the Congress authorities’s Gruha Jyothi scheme, which offers free electrical energy as much as 200 models to eligible households.
Whereas stating that electrical energy theft was a difficulty within the Previous Metropolis and that allegations of residents failing to pay electrical energy payments had sparked issues and discussions within the State Meeting, he proudly claimed that minorities within the space have been benefiting essentially the most from the free electrical energy scheme. The awkward placement of his authorities’s private achievement, implying that the minority neighborhood of the Previous Metropolis have been now being offered free electrical energy as an alternative of stealing it, has additionally drawn flak. “Immediately I can proudly say that the free electrical energy scheme benefited folks from the minorities essentially the most,” he mentioned.
The mixture of the 2 statements, portraying minority college students by a stereotype on their educational talents and discussing free electrical energy whereas addressing allegations of theft, has led to backlash in opposition to the Chief Minister’s feedback.
Reddy turns minority summit into political assault
Reddy additionally used the summit to defend the Congress authorities’s report on Muslim reservation and assault the BJP and the previous BRS authorities.
He mentioned Congress had handled Hindus and Muslims as “two eyes” of the federal government and referred to the 4 per cent reservation offered to Muslims throughout YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s tenure within the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy claimed the Congress authorities confronted opposition over the reservation and approached the Excessive Courtroom and Supreme Courtroom to defend it.
Referring to Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s go to to Chevella, Reddy alleged that Shah had mentioned the BJP would scrap Muslim reservation if it got here to energy. He mentioned secular forces would work to forestall such a transfer so long as Congress remained energetic in India.
Reddy raises SIR issues
Reddy additionally spoke concerning the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that opposition events have been making an attempt to delete lakhs of voters in Telangana forward of the following Meeting elections.
He referred to the voter-roll train in West Bengal and urged folks to make sure that the names of all eligible voters stay on the electoral rolls.
Reddy additionally alleged that “political forces in Gujarat” had turned their consideration in the direction of Telangana.
However it was his feedback about minority college students that dominated the dialogue across the summit.
