BRS leaders led by T. Harish Rao consoled a residential school student who fell ill after food poisoning in Hyderabad on Saturday. | Photo credit: By arrangement
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) says Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who also holds the education portfolio, and his cabinet are unmoved by the constant incidents of boarding school students falling ill due to food poisoning.
Former Minister and MLA T. Harish Rao on Saturday visited the King Kothi Government Hospital to console the students of Bagh Lingampally Minority Welfare Home School who were admitted there after falling ill due to food poisoning. He asked the doctors about the condition of the students.
Mr. Harish Rao later said that the Congress government had money to improve conditions in boarding schools while spending ₹70 million of Singareni’s money to arrange for Argentine football star Lionel Messi to visit and play a friendly match. The Chief Minister even spent ₹5 crore of government money to build a stadium at the MCHRRD Institute for his football practice.
On Friday, 43 students of Chandu Naik Thanda Residential School in Madhapur fell ill due to food poisoning after lunch and on Saturday, 90 students of Bagh Lingampally Residential School fell ill due to the same reason. He suggested that the chief minister should first focus on providing quality food to residential school students instead of making big claims about vision 2047, a $3 trillion economy and more. The neglect of boarding schools has already claimed the lives of 116 students since Congress took over in December 2023.
Meanwhile, party president Ravula Sridhar Reddy alleged that there were large-scale irregularities in the purchase of 36,288 bunkers for Kasturba Gandhi schools, causing a huge loss to the exchequer and demanded a probe into the matter.
Published – 13 Dec 2025 20:28 IST
