Revanth calls six days of dharnas to force KCR out as Opposition leader

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday, 31 August 2026, turned the inauguration of the Moosarambagh high-level bridge across the Musi into the launch pad for a political offensive. He called Congress workers to six days of dharnas beginning Tuesday, 1 September, demanding that Bharat Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao resign as Leader of the Opposition. The protests are to culminate at Indira Park on 6 September, just before the Assembly sits from 7 September.

The charge is absence. Congress marks 1,000 days in office on Tuesday, 1 September 2026, and Revanth accused KCR of staying out of public life and out of the Assembly for those 1,000 days. He asked whether any other Leader of the Opposition in India had done the same. The framing is deliberate: convert an anniversary of government into an indictment of the Opposition’s top face.

Money figures were part of the attack. Revanth claimed KCR had drawn ₹1.24 crore as salary over 1,000 days and that the government had spent about ₹22 crore on his security and facilities. He compared the situation to a government employee who would face dismissal after a year of absence. He also challenged KCR to an Assembly debate pitting Congress’s 1,000 days against BRS’s ten-year rule.

Welfare claims filled the same speech. Revanth cited ration cards and six kilograms of fine rice reaching 3.48 crore people; 7 lakh Indiramma houses, including 1 lakh in Hyderabad; 72,000 jobs filled in 1,000 days; Scheduled Caste categorisation; a BC caste census; policies for gig workers, IT, tourism and endowments; ₹3,500 crore under the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund; and a new Osmania Hospital project at ₹2,000 crore. Separately, he accused the KCR family of holding farmhouses — one account cited K.T. Rama Rao with 100 acres and K. Kavitha with 50 acres at Janwada — and accused BRS of selling workers’ blood through donation camps. Those are political allegations and claims from the chief minister’s platform; they are recorded here as spoken claims, not as independently adjudicated findings.

Because the dharnas begin on 1 September, this cutting is a live-today filing for the 1 September masthead. The bridge inauguration and the protest calendar are the same political day-sequence: open an infrastructure asset, announce a street campaign, aim at Indira Park before the Assembly session. For Hyderabad’s streets, that means a week of organised Congress mobilisation around a single demand — KCR’s resignation as Leader of the Opposition — while the government simultaneously advertises its 1,000-day welfare ledger.

Readers should separate three layers. First, the operational fact: protests are called from 1 to 6 September, peaking at Indira Park. Second, the political argument: 1,000 days of alleged LoP absence versus 1,000 days of claimed Congress delivery. Third, the contested personal and property allegations, which remain allegations until tested elsewhere. This paper’s job is to report the call to protest and the numbers Revanth placed on the record, without turning a campaign speech into settled history.