On the seventh day of his ten day tour of China, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday went sightseeing in Beijing along with his large entourage to have a glimpse of Tiananmen Square, Great Wall of China and several other interesting places. The team left for Shenzhen in the evening.
A release here said Mr. Rao and others saw the monuments of the heroes of Chinese Communist revolution, great hall of people, the National Museum of China and Chairman Mao Zedong memorial hall.
They also saw the fortifications of the Great Wall of China which was built to protect the Chinese States and empires against raids and invasions.
The delegation spent a couple of hours going round the two places. It evinced keen interest to gather details of historical and modern importance.
Political rivals dubbed him “Rollback CM” after a series of decisions Rao took upon becoming the first chief minister of the country’s newest state in June last year were shelved under public pressure.
“When a CM takes a decision, he should consider all the pros and cons beforehand. Rao is driven by momentary emotions. His decisions prove he lacks the maturity to head a state,” Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, working president, Telangana Congress, told HT.
The CM, on his part, has put up a wavering defence of his decisions, only to yield quickly to swelling resentment from various quarters.
Limiting scholarships to those whose parents settled in the state before 1956, re-registration of vehicles with a Telangana code and appointment of Parliament secretaries are some of the orders that were rolled back after the government was rapped by the Hyderabad high court.
Decisions put on hold after incurring the wrath of activists, students, political parties and common people include plans to construct a new secretariat building compliant with vastu and shifting of a chest hospital outside the city for the purpose, demolition of the Nizam-era Osmania hospital building to make way for swanky twin towers, and taking of Osmania University land for housing the poor.
