Adani, Megha donations prove politics make strange bedfellows-Telangana Today
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Adani, Megha donations prove politics make strange bedfellows-Telangana Today

The episode dates back to October 19, when Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and donated ₹100 million to the Young India Skills University. Following this, Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) contributed ₹200 crore on Saturday and offered to construct the necessary buildings for the campus. The episode dates back to October 19, when Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and donated ₹100 million to the Young India Skills University. Following this, Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) contributed ₹200 crore on Saturday and offered to construct the necessary buildings for the campus.

Publication date – October 27, 2024, 10:15 p.m


Adani, Megha donations prove politics make strange bedfellows-Telangana Today
A team of MEIL representatives led by Managing Director Krishna Reddy with Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at the Secretariat on Saturday

Hyderabad: There are no permanent enemies in politics. Do you have any doubts? Watch what is happening in Telangana. Two of the latest major donations to the Congress government’s Young India Skills University project come from names like Congress leaders, including Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, used to criticize in the most bitter ways. In fact, some are drawing parallels from the current clean stuff given to Congress’ new friends to the ‘washing powder Nirma’ jibe at the BJP.

The episode can be traced back to October 19, when Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and donated Rs.100 crore for Young India Skills University. On Saturday, Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) on Saturday donated Rs.200 crore to the university and came forward to construct the required buildings in the university campus.


Now a little flashback. When he was in opposition and when he was TPCC president, Revanth Reddy had trained his guns on both Adani Group and MEIL Group, accusing them of looting the people’s money. In Adani’s case, the Rs.100 crore donation raised questions about how Adani was trying to get the state government’s support for the Ambuja Cement plant, which has an investment of Rs.1,400 crore at Ramannapet in Yadadri Bhongir district, especially with the local people. up in arms against the project.

On the other hand, while he was the TPCC president, Revanth Reddy had compared the Megha group to the “East India Company” and said that they were looting the money of the Telangana people. He even went on to say it MEIL Group CEO Krishna Reddy served as CEO of both Telugu states after securing mega projects in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana “by offering commissions”. Then, after the Congress came to power, things changed.

On 1 August, the retaining wall of the intake well and pump house complex at Sunkishala collapsed, affecting plans to draw water from Nagarjuna Sagar to meet Hyderabad’s drinking water needs. It was MEIL who was assigned the project work. Despite the BRS demanding strict action against MEIL, the Congress government has not initiated any action so far. BRS working president KT Rama Rao wanted the government to blacklist MEIL and conduct a thorough investigation into the incident. But MEIL, according to BRS, instead got more projects, including the Narayanpet Kodangal Lift Irrigation project.

And now MEIL has come forward to help the government with the Skills university project together with Adani. Politics make strange bedfellows!