Min. assures major push to tourism
On the last day of his Jan Ashirvad Yatra, Union minister for tourism and culture G. Kishan Reddy became emotional at Amberpet, which he had represented in the Legislative Assembly.
He said, “I am feeling the way a child feels after meeting his mother after several days, on entering Amberpet, the launchpad of my political career”.
He promised to work for the betterment of people from Amberpet and Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency.
He recalled that as a legislator, he roamed the streets of Amberpet to attend to local issues. However, he did not have enough time for that now as in his new responsibility he was reviewing development programmes, and attending to work across the nation.Reddy said the Centre had effectively tackled Covid-19 and 57 crore people across the country have been provided free vaccines so far. Understanding the importance of maintaining the Covid protocol, he said
that although he had visited Gandhi Hospital ventilator ward nine times, he was not infected because he wore the mask and followed all precautions diligently.
Reddy said that he had worked to bring global recognition to Ramappa temple in Warangal for quite some time, but could not achieve it.
“After getting the tourism and culture ministry, I took up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and succeeded in getting Unesco recognition,” he said, adding that the Golconda fort would be developed.
Earlier, he visited the Yadadri temple and offered special prayers to Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy. The priests gave him Veda Ashirvachanam. Later, he inspected construction work at the temple and enquired about its progress with architect Anand Sai.
Kishan Reddy said that there was a need to develop the tourism sector. He said almost all tourist spots would be reopened in January.
He said efforts were on to get national festival status for Bonalu and Sammakka Saralamma jatara. He said that Bhadrachalam and Vem-ulawada temples should be developed by the state government.
At Bhongir, he stated that the TRS government will be in power for two more years. He alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had sent crores of rupees in suitcases to Huzurabad to buy votes and leaders. He said all these efforts would fail as dharma will prevail and the BJP would win.
The minister rode a bike with tribal women activists in Bhongir and visited a ration shop to enquire about the process of getting free rice provided by the Centre.
The yatra went through Ghatkesar, Uppal, Ramanthapur, Amberpet, Chikkadpally, Secunderabad, Begumpet, Ameerpet, Yousufguda, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Masab Tank, Vijaynagar Colony, and Goshamahal before concluding at the party’s state headquarters in Nampally and was greeted by large crowds.
The yatra started at Kodad on August 19 and covered eight Parliament and 17 Assembly constituencies spread over 305 kilometres.