Where is KCR? Opposition seeks clarity about his health as Telangana CM goes MIA for three weeks

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Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), who has been missing in action for the last three weeks ostensibly for health reasons, is now in the centre of a political storm, with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) writing to the governor on the veil of secrecy about his health conditions...

Yesterday, suddenly a disclosure has been, purportedly, made by his son and minister KTR that his father has a secondary (bacterial) infection of the lungs, Reddy, the chairman, Election Commission Affairs Committee, BJP Telangana, said in the letter Saturday..

Reddy, a former senior Congressman, also claimed that there was a growing public concern because of the fate of eminent personalities, like late Kanshi Ram, whose condition was kept shrouded in secrecy from the outside world by his protege Mayawati, creating doubts in the minds of the people about his real condition.. Citing another instance of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J..

As a son, KTR has the right to brief about his fathers condition (but) Telangana people have the right to be properly briefed about their Chief Minister, by competent medical authorities, Reddy said, requesting the governor to direct the chief secretary to do the needful...

Meanwhile, the chief ministers office (CMO) released a statement Monday, saying that KCR would hold a meeting at the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) headquarters on 15 October to release the election manifesto and hand over B forms to his candidates for the 30 November assembly polls...

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