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Putting Congress Lok Sabha leader Rahul Gandhi on the defensive, BRS working president KT Rama Rao BRS demanded an unconditional public apology to the country’s students, engineers and teachers over Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s remarks calling engineering students as criminal waste. He warned Rahul Gandhi that silence over the Chief Minister’s comments amounted to political endorsement.
He also sought Rahul Gandhi to direct Revanth Reddy to withdraw the remarks and tender an unconditional apology. “The engineers building India’s digital economy… are not criminal waste, but the country’s greatest national assets,” he affirmed.
In a sharply worded four-page letter, Rama Rao asked whether the remarks reflected the Congress party’s official position on students, engineers and the youth. He reminded that India’s youth were among the country’s greatest strengths and described engineers, scientists, teachers, students and entrepreneurs as contributors to the nation’s technological and economic progress. They deserved admiration, encouragement and respect—not humiliation, he said.History
He argued that Rahul Gandhi bore both political and moral responsibility as the Congress leader who campaigned for the party in Telangana and personally chose Revanth Reddy as Chief Minister.
The BRS working president said the Chief Minister’s remarks were not mere political comments but an insult to lakhs of engineering students, their parents and teachers. He said a Chief Minister branding engineers as criminal waste, diminished not the engineers but the dignity of the constitutional office he held.
He accused Revanth Reddy of following a pattern of disparaging students and young people. He cited the Chief Minister’s earlier comments terming the university students as a “beer and biryani batch”, dismissing student movements as the work of “thugs”, and making derogatory remarks against teachers.Telangana political news
Reminding the history of youth-led political movements including resistance to the Emergency and the Telangana statehood movement, Rama Rao said India’s youth repeatedly demonstrated that their self-respect cannot be insulted or ignored. He recalled the Telangana statehood movement, in which lakhs of young people fought for statehood under K Chandrashekhar Rao’s leadership.
