KCR Did Not Get Permission To Receive Modi?

While there are doubts aplenty if Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao would visit the Hakim airport to receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening, some media reports cited that KCR did not get the permission from the Prime Minister’s office and TRS leaders too corroborated the same. The TRS netas said that as per the rules, the Chief Minister’s office had sent information to the Prime Minister’s Office seeking the necessary permission and that Modi’s personal secretary Vivek had called up Telagnana government Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and informed him that only five persons are permitted to receive the PM and no one else should be present other than the five members in the list.

Sources in the TRS said thus CM KCR did not get the permission to welcome Modi. The five persons who will be receiving PM include Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, DGP Mahender Reddy, Medchal collector Swetha Mohanti, Cyberabad CP V.C. Sajjanar, Hakimpet Airport Station commandant.

As per the protocol, whenever the Prime Minister visits any state, the Governor and Chief Minister and Union ministers from that particular state accord a warm welcome to him. It is also surprising that Governor Tamilisai Soundararajn is also not going to be present to welcome PM Modi.

Now, the denial of permission to KCR ahead of GHMC election is seen as a political strategy. Meanwhile, KCR is turning this into his advantage. It also comes in handy for KCR who has planned to address a public meeting at the LB Stadium almost at the same time when the PM is scheduled to visit the Bharat Biotech facility and take stock of the progress in the manufacture of the company’s Covid vaccine, Covaxin.

Information from the PMO giving permission only to five persons seems to have excluded Telangana CM KCR.