Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy left political observers scratching their heads when he disagreed with a questioner who asked whether he considered the Jubilee Hill bypoll as a referendum on the functioning of his two-year-old government.

To the pointed question at his 90-minute-long press conference on Friday, Revanth Reddy replied it was “an outdated philosophy (bypolls being the referendum)”. “Irrespective of victory or loss, every election is a test for our performance. We will analyse the results and strive to work hard in serving the people,” Revanth Reddy said.

He appealed to the voters to analyse the Congress government’s performance from 2004 to 2014 in the State, while arguing that the Integrated Command Control Room, the Secretariat, Pragathi Bhavan and Kaleshwaram projects bui

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