NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Monday accused the Centre of “insulting” 4 crore individuals of the state by declining permission for his go to to the USA.Reddy claimed that the transfer confirmed the “Centre’s discrimination” towards Telangana and stated that the difficulty can be raised in Parliament.“The ministry of exterior affairs examined my proposal and declined clearance from the political angle. I wish to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi: if there was nothing political about my overseas tour, why was permission granted for England however denied for the US?”He additionally questioned why Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel was allowed to go to the US and Canada from August 17 to 24 as a part of the Vibrant Gujarat 2047 initiative to draw investments, whereas his proposed US go to underneath Telangana Rising 2047 was rejected.“Not simply America however any nation on the earth. If they’re going to come and spend money on my state, no matter laws are made by the federal government of India, we wish to welcome everybody, we wish to shield their funding, we are going to make sure that to get revenue from Telangana, so that is quite simple. That is the one political purpose Narendra Modi has refused to let me journey to the US to advertise Telangana,” Reddy added.
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Reddy’s remarks got here days after the ministry of exterior affairs denied him permission to go to the USA, saying that the programme submitted for the journey was not thought of acceptable to the workplace he holds and the aim of the go to.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, in a briefing, stated that visits by chief ministers and different dignitaries are assessed by the ministry earlier than political clearance is granted.“Let me say that the go to of chief ministers, as certainly of different dignitaries, are assessed by the ministry of exterior affairs as a way to accord political clearance,” Jaiswal stated.“The programme proposed, in such circumstances, needs to be acceptable to the workplace held and the aim of the go to. On this specific case, that was not so in respect of the USA, and due to this fact the clearance was denied,” he stated.
