A CM visits Telangana’s O.U. first time in 20 years amid heavy barricading; Revanth does want police for meeting in December

Telangana government does not expect Osmania University to just produce public officers but build the necessary intelligentsia required to uphold Telangana.

“This university, the seat of separate Statehood agitation, a place which owns up people’s problems anywhere in the State, and is a platform for ideological exchange, is not separate from Telangana. Osmania University and Telangana are synonymous, and like conjoined twins,” Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said, addressing an ecstatic gathering at Osmania University in Hyderabad on Monday (August 25, 2025).

It was the first time in 20 years that any Chief Minister visited Osmania University and addressed its stakeholders. On Monday, Mr. Revanth Reddy, joined by Minister for SC Development Adluri Laxman Kumar, along with vice chancellor Kumar Molugaram and principal, University College of Arts and Social Sciences, C. Kaseem inaugurated new hostel buildings.

Named Dundubhi and Bhima, the hostels built at a cost of ₹80 crore, would provide accommodation to 1,200 students. He also launched works for digital library and reading room, and another two hostels supported by the Tribal Welfare Department.

Detention of students criticised

Mr. Reddy’s visit, observed as historical, was not free from diverse reactions. Students, leaders from the Opposition, and the social media discussed the heavy barricading on the campus and critcised the detention of some student leaders in view of the visit. On the other hand, Mr. Reddy while in Tagore Auditorium was persuasive with his plans for the university.

A 108-year-old university that produced Telangana’s intellect, and the likes of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, former Home Minister Shivraj Patil, and former Chief Minister Marri Chenna Reddy, and revolutionaries such as Gummadi Vittal Rao aka Gaddar and student leader George Reddy, has been left to rot and been cancerous for lack of appointments, promotions, and recruitment, he said.

I will approve development plans for O.U.

“I will do anything and everything necessary for Osmania University. This university embodies Telangana and is a testimony to its history; we must preserve it for posterity. You just make your developmental plans, and I will approve whatever it is,” he said to the cheering alumni, current students, the staff and the administration.

He instructed Principal Secretary (Education) Yogitha Rana to form a committee of engineers to study and suggest for the development of the university.

CM acknowledges heavy arrangements

Mr. Revanth Reddy, acknowledging the heavy arrangements, the mammonth police bandobust and barricading, said he would visit the university again in December, the “miracle month”, also when on the 9th the then Congress government had first announced the process of forming a separate Telangana State in 2009.

Revanth does not police during December visit

“There shouldn’t be a single police officer on the campus for that meet in front of the Arts College, I am instructing the DGP and the commissioner. Let me talk to my brothers and sisters. I may lack the intelligence to answer any of their questions, but I have the will to do it,” he said.

He, however, cautioned that students and the youths not to fall into the trap of some leaders, “who conspire, spread misinformation, and are like termites spreading all over the place.”

New fellowships launched

At the event, Mr. Reddy launched two new fellowships – the Chief Minister’s Ph.D. fellowship for full time no-fellowship scholars sponsored by The Singareni Collieries Company Limited and the Overseas fellowship of P.G. and Ph. D. students sponsored by HMDA-MAUD.