Even as he repeated his now familiar rhetoric of a cash crunch and consequent inability to keep poll promises, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy claimed that his ‘Bade bhai Chote bhai’ camaraderie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working well for his government.

The statement, made during an informal chat on Friday, and which came as an embarrassment to the Congress high command that has relentlessly been targeting Modi, saw Revanth Reddy claiming that his “cordial relations” with Modi had helped him secure the Centre to approve a Rs 26,000 crore debt restructuring plan and also the northern part of the proposed Regional Ring Road.

He also said that while former Chief Minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy had tried hard but failed to secure defence lands for executing the elevated corridor on

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