Kiran charms all with his Hyderabadi lingo!

Making right moves: Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy participating in developmental programmes in old city. —

 

There was a perceptible difference in the Chief Minister's oratory skills especially Urdu during his second to the old city on Sunday. Amidst a spree of laying foundation stones and openings at various places, Mr. Reddy spoke at the Nizamia Tibbi College and Unani Hospital in the local lingo much to the joy of the people around.
“Salaam Aleikum…,” he began with a flourish and assured the gathering of his government's resolve to improve civic amenities in the area. Unlike the previous time, he spoke comfortably and did not need any prompting from his Cabinet colleague D. Nagender as it happened before.
Perhaps unaware of the Chief Minister's improved Urdu skills, Mr. Nagender tried to “correct” him when he said that under ‘Aarogyasri' “phukat mein…” operations were being done with “muft mein”. “Arey…this is Hyderabadi lingo, don't you know!” Mr. Reddy ticked him off.
Such was his confidence being exuded that he even took a pot shot at the media: “The Government programmes benefit 80 per cent of people but the media highlights the other 20 per cent who are left out,” was his take!
That the Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao's lucky number is six was proved again when a new daily Namaste Telangana was launched by him on June 6. Those close to KCR vouchsafe that his favourite number is 6 and that he would ensure number ‘6' is there during all important tasks or launch of programmes. Interestingly, Mr. Rao is also known to be averse to take up any initiative on Tuesdays. Close associates also point out that the TRS president makes it sure that the number ‘6' is present while filing nominations before elections. Will the number 6 prove auspicious for the new Telugu daily?
Seems the Water Board doesn't trust its own product. The other day Chief Minister, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, inaugurated a reservoir at Thattikhana in Banjara Hills. As usual the programme was held much behind schedule.
Those who came for the function had to simply wait endlessly and guzzle lots of water. The Water Board readily provided the elixir of life. If you think it was the Board water banish the idea. It was the bottled water that was supplied to everyone. Many were left wondering why the Board did not provide its own stuff.
For a change, these days, the traffic police seem to be taking proactive measures to ease congestion on the arterial routes during peak hours.

They prevented sudden ‘U' turns on Masab Tank flyover by placing precast concrete blocks.
They restricted free right turn at St. John's School, Secunderabad and introduced one-way traffic at Anandnagar in Khairatabad. Some of these initiatives have enabled to reduce traffic gridlocks.
In a similar initiative, the traffic police have removed some portion of the median in front of Shoppers Stop complex at Begumpet to allow motorists coming from Hyderabad Public School (HPS) take right turn to proceed towards Rasoolpura junction via Prakashnagar flyover during evening hours. Motorists coming towards HPS from Rasoolpura have to use the road abutting the flyover.
This experiment has made life easy for commuters and helped police ease the ever increasing chaos between HPS and Begumpet.
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