BRS leader T. Harish Rao accused the Congress of stalling Telangana’s health sector, citing delays at LB Nagar’s TIMS hospital and scrapping of medical colleges. He warned of a “public revolt” if key projects were not completed on priority.
Published Date – 4 October 2025, 02:08 PM
Hyderabad: BRS MLA and former Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday came down heavily on the Congress government for the two year stagnation in the health sector and deterioration the State had witnessed in medical and health services.
Led by him, a delegation of BRS leaders inspected the stalled construction activity at the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) hospital in LB Nagar.
Speaking on the occasion, Rao warned Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of impending “public revolt” if critical healthcare projects were not completed on a war footing. He accused the Congress of lacking the “foresight ” that former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao demonstrated in planning robust healthcare infrastructure post-COVID.
“If K Chandashekhar Rao had foresight for a hundred years, the Congress party has demonstrated a total lack of it,” Harish Rao said, highlighting how Chandrashekhar Rao envisioned four TIMS super-specialty hospitals around Hyderabad, along with a 2,000-bed expansion of NIMS, to ensure that quality care reached the masses.
He noted that the previous governments in the undivided State had failed to build beyond colonial-era facilities like Gandhi, Osmania and King Kothi hospitals, but Chandrashekhar Rao prioritized the poor by allocating funds and nearly completing these projects.
Rao lamented the two-year stagnation under Congress rule, where land acquisition, tenders, designs, and funding, all finalized by BRS, were ignored. At the LB Nagar TIMS site, he pointed out that BRS had integrated it with an existing cellar to build a six-story structure, but the current administration has managed only five floors in two years.
“If BRS was in power, these hospitals would have started serving the public by now.
Revanth Reddy is deliberately delaying works out of malice, fearing that KCR’s name and BRS good deeds will be remembered,” he charged.
The delegation decried the government’s decision to cancel or merge BRS-sanctioned medical colleges in Maheshwaram and Quthbullapur, undermining the goal of super-specialty services for the underprivileged.
“KCR planned medical colleges in all 33 districts, increasing MBBS seats from 2,850 to 10,000. We sanctioned the Ranga Reddy district medical college in Maheshwaram via G.O., but they scrapped it and merged it with TIMS LB Nagar. Similarly, the Quthbullapur sanction was folded into TIMS Alwal, scrapping the planned 500-bed hospital there,” Harish Rao said, adding that such moves left these areas without essential facilities. He added that there was “progress under BRS, regression under Congress”.
He flagged the government’s failure to pay salaries to Basti Dawakhanas staff for six months, despite Revanth’s promise of disbursal by the 1st of every month. “Congress takes pride in starving these centres,” he said.
Other grievances included Rs 1,400 crore in pending Aarogyasri bills rendering the scheme ineffective, the unexplained halt to the “Kanti Velugu” eye care programme, and a broader downturn in healthcare access. He demanded steps for the immediate completion of Warangal Health City and Hyderabad’s TIMS hospitals.
“Don’t play politics with hospitals that save lives. Dates and deadlines change, but work doesn’t progress. We’re warning Revanth Reddy: Complete these on a war footing, or a revolt from the people is inevitable,” he asserted.
He was accompanied to TIMS by former minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy, local MLA Sudhir Reddy, MLAs KP Vivekananda and Kaleru Venkatesh, MLC Yadav Reddy and other leaders.
