On Minorities Welfare Day, Telangana CM trains his guns on BJP and BRS

HYDERABAD Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) sought to project Congress as the only political entity capable of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), even as he accused the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) of misleading Muslims and having truck with the Narendra Modi government. Mr.

Reddy was speaking on Minorities Welfare Day, coinciding with the birth anniversary of the first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, in Hyderabad on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) where he criticised the BJP’s stand on the 4% reservation for Muslims and challenged it to first abolish the quota in Gujarat. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/remembering-azad/article23980998.ece Describing the BJP top brass as “musafir” (tourist), he said, “A musafir from Delhi, from far away, came to Chevella and said that they would form the government in Telangana.

They said they would remove the 4% reservation for Muslims. I told those tourists that such people come and go.