Telangana CM Revanth Reddy: ‘I took inspiration from Hitler’, this statement of Telangana CM Revanth Reddy created an uproar in the country.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is embroiled in a huge controversy due to one of his very strange statements. It has cost the Chief Minister a lot to compare the anti-encroachment campaign being run against illegal encroachments in the state with the world’s most cruel German dictator Adolf Hitler. After this statement came to light, major opposition parties like Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) have opened a front against the government and are demanding resignation from the CM.

This whole brouhaha started during a public event organized in Bengaluru on Saturday. CM Revanth Reddy claimed from the stage there that the name of ‘Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency’ (HYDRAA) working in Telangana was actually inspired by Adolf Hitler’s team. He publicly said that the word Hydra was Hitler’s favorite word. The name of his main team was Hydra, which had the power to completely wipe out anyone. Taking inspiration from the same Hitler, I have named my government agency Hydra.

What is the real truth of Hydra? History and connection to ‘Marvel’ movies

The Chief Minister may be quoting dictator Hitler from the stage with tall claims, but historians do not agree with his strange fact at all. According to experts and historians, there is no documentary evidence or record in the history of the whole world that Hitler had any special attachment to this word or that any of his intelligence teams or wings were named this. On the contrary, history tells that during the Second World War, the British Royal Army itself conducted a major operation against the German Army, which was named ‘Operation Hydra’.

In fact, Hollywood’s famous ‘Marvel’ superhero movies (like Captain America) definitely feature a fictional villain gang of supporters of the Nazi dictator as ‘Hydra’. There is now a strong discussion in the political circles that the Chief Minister probably got badly entangled between real history and the fictional characters of Hollywood films and made a big mistake.

‘Emergency mentality’: BJP’s sharp counterattack

As soon as Revanth Reddy openly confessed to taking inspiration from a cruel dictator, the politics of the state and the country has heated up and the opposition has completely attacked him. BJP’s national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala has taken this statement to task and termed it as the result of Congress’s old dictatorial thinking.

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala made a scathing attack and said that the old emergency mentality of Congress has once again come to the fore in front of the country. Revanth Reddy is now openly boasting that dictator Hitler inspired him to create Hydra in Hyderabad. This completely reflects the dictatorial mentality of Congress, which can be clearly seen from the Emergency period of Indira Gandhi to the repressive action being taken by Revanth Reddy against journalists and students today.

Tremendous tension increased over the statement ‘Salaam and Tax’

The opposition party BJP has also attacked Revanth Reddy over his second statement in which he tried to fuel the politics of North versus South India. Reddy had recently said in one of his speeches that both the Prime Minister and the President of the country come from North India, hence the people of South India cannot live here as second class citizens. He had further said that it is absolutely not possible that the people of the South just keep paying taxes and then go to Delhi and keep saluting the leaders there.

Making a strong counter to this controversial statement of the Chief Minister, BJP spokesperson Poonawala has termed it as ‘Jinnah’s thinking’ and dangerous politics that divides the country into pieces. Reminding the Chief Minister, he said that the country’s first tribal woman President, Draupadi Murmu, comes from Odisha and the Vice President of the country also belongs to South India, hence dividing the country into North-South should be stopped.