Revanth Mocks BRS Claims on TIMS

Hyderabad: Taking a dig at the BRS leadership over its claims on the Tims hospitals, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday narrated a humorous episode involving Sanathnagar MLA and BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao during their recent visit to Dr MCR Tims at Sanathnagar.

Revanth Reddy said BRS leaders seemed to wake up each morning and rush to government programmes whenever they learnt that a project was being inaugurated by the Congress government. He noted that after hearing that Tims Sanathnagar would be inaugurated by him or Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, the MLA visited the hospital with KTR on Sunday and claimed the BRS government had built it.

The Chief Minister said he had no objection to their visit but recalled how the leaders later went to the mental hospital located behind the TIMS facility. According to him, while walking through the hospital they met an elderly patient. The MLA asked if he recognised KTR. When the patient said no, the MLA allegedly grew angry and insisted that KTR and his father KCR had built the TIMS hospitals.

Revanth Reddy said the patient responded calmly, telling the MLA that when he first came to the hospital he too used to claim he had built the Charminar, Golconda and Hyderabad. Doctors had treated him, and he was now recovering. “You also get admitted and get treated by the doctors. You will remember everything,” the patient reportedly told the MLA.

Using the anecdote, the Chief Minister questioned why the BRS leaders had not inaugurated the hospitals during their decade in power if they had actually built them. He added that the previous government had completed farmhouses at Erravelli, Janwada, Moinabad and Shankarpally without delay, but not the hospitals.