Prime Minister Narendra Modi was first among those who greeted Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on his birthday on Friday. But surprisingly no top leader of the Congress party greeted him. This has been believed to be sending a wrong signal to him on his worsening relations with the party high-command.
Congress circles are wondering that no one from Gandhi family- Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra greeted him on his birthday. Even Party chief Mallikharjuna Kharge was silent.
It is learned that the Chief Minister was disappointed after waiting till evening but did not receive birthday wishes from them. This has further strengthened speculations that the high command is distancing Revanth. Moreover, there is also a campaign going on that the change of Chief Minister is now a formality.
The CMO’s office posted the names of those who wished Revanth Reddy on the official social media group. The names of the high command’s elders were not found in those names. It is noteworthy that Revanth Reddy’s political mentor KC Venugopal also did not extend birthday wishes.
There is a discussion in Congress circles that the latest incident has given strength to BJP Legislature Party’s leader Aleti Maheshwar Reddy’s comments that he could not get an appointment with Rahul Gandhi despite going to Delhi seven times and requesting him.
He also claimed that Priyanka Gandhi did not even greet him there even though he went to Wayanad for her nomination ceremony. Moreover, his growing proximity with the top BJP leaders, particularly union ministers, is worrying Congress circles.
Whenever Revanth Reddy requests, he is getting appointments from Union ministers like Prime Minister Modi, Nadda, and Amit Shah. Accordingly, Modi wished Revanth at 8:30 am.
Among those who wished Revanth on his birthday were AP CM Chandrababu Naidu, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, film actor Chiranjeevi, AP Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan, US Consulate General Jennifer Lorson and others.
On the other hand, after the issue of the high command not wishing Revanth Reddy a happy birthday was widely trolled on social media, Revanth himself took steps to mitigate the damage. He posted a post on his X account at 10 pm. In the post, Revanth said that he would like to specially thank Rahul Bhaiya for taking the time to personally wish him a happy birthday.
