HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s birthday was celebrated on Saturday in a grand manner across the state. Blood donation camps, medical camps and other charity programmes were organised by TRS leaders and the cadre on the occasion.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Pr-ime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers, TS & AP Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, Maharash-tra Governor Ch. Vidya-sagar Rao, Bihar Gove-rnor Satya Pal Malik, AP Chief Minister N. Chan-drababu Naidu, Chhatti-sgarh CM Raman Singh, leader of the Opposition in TS Assembly K. Jana Reddy, Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and others conveyed birthday greetings to the CM.
The celebrations were held at Pragati Bhavan, the camp office cum residence of the CM in Begumpet.
Mr Rao performed special puja at Mysamma temple inside the premises of Pragati Bhavan on Saturday morning.
Later, Deputy CMs Kad-iam Srihari and Mohd Mahmood Ali, ministers, MLAs, MLCs, chairpersons of various corporations, IAS and IPS officers, prominent personalities and a host of other dignitaries met the CM and conveyed their greetings.
Meanwhile, the desire of 11-year-old Vignesh, suffering from an ailment, to meet the CM got fulfilled.
The CM had specially invited Vignesh to Prag-ati Bhavan on the occasion of his birthday. He spent some time with Vignesh, who was accompanied by his parents.
Vignesh was delighted to meet the CM and spend some time with him. He took his family pictures with the CM.
The CM enquired about his health and assured that the government will bear all the medical expenses of Vignesh. Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav organised the CM’s birthday celebrations in a grand manner at Jala Vihar, Necklace Road.
Distribution of tri-cycles to physically challenged, distribution of sarees to old women, blood donation camp and other charity programmes were held on the occasion.
Traffic snarls near Pragati Bhavan trouble commuters
Chief Minister K. Cha-ndrashekar Rao’s bir-thday celebrations lead to chaotic traffic in and around Begumpet.
Traffic movement was stalled or was bumper to bumper on Sa-turday at few roads le-ading to Raj Bhavan, Pragati Bhavan, secretariat and Telangana Bhavan. It was tougher for commuters travelling as they were stuck in traffic snarls as huge traffic congestion was witnessed near Chief Minister’s office wher-ein people in huge numbers came to greet him.
Furthermore an amb-ulance was also seen caught in the traffic congestion at Begumpet.
“I was heading from Begumpet to Secunder-abad and the stretches were choked. Due to the chaotic traffic, people were being allowed from the entrance of camp office which is otherwise close,” a commuter said.
As if weekdays was not enough, this weekend commuters in various parts of the city crawled through the traffic. Stretches like Necklace Road, secretariat, Jubilee Hills check post, Nagarjuna circle, Raj Bhavan, Tank Bund, Begumpet were affected.
However Hyderabad joint traffic commissioner Dr V. Ravinder said, “The congestion was reported only at Begumpet and it was attributed to the visitors thronging in to meet Chief Minister at the Camp office. There was traffic congestion for 40-45minutes.”
As the visitors to the CM camp office were not allowed inside. Once we informed the authorities about the congestion, they allowed the visitors vehicles inside and traffic started flowing smoothly”.
The traffic at secretariat was due to the road relaying work between Indhira Gandhi statue to Telugu Talli statue on NTR Marg. This will continue for another one week.
