Adani donates Rs 100 crore to Telangana, Opposition slams Congress’s double-talk

The Adani Foundation has donated Rs 100 crore to the Telangana government for the establishment of a skills university aimed at developing industry-specific abilities among young people. The donation has drawn sharp criticism from opposition parties, with both the BJP and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) accusing the Congress of “double-talks” in its stance on Adani.
The donation was handed over during a meeting between Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad on Friday.
“A delegation from Adani Foundation, led by Chairperson of Adani Group, Gautam Adani, met with Chief Minister Revanth Reddy to hand over a donation cheque of Rs 100 crore towards the establishment of Young India Skills University,” the Chief Minister’s Office posted on X.
The office also noted that Adani expressed continued support for the state’s youth empowerment initiatives.
Taking a dig at the Congress, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya on its official X handle said, “Despite Rahul Gandhi scream ‘Adani Adani’ all day, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy goes ahead and accepts a ‘donation’ from Gautam Adani. It must feel awful to be treated like a doormat by your own Chief Ministers.”
Meanwhile, BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) echoed similar sentiments, accusing the Congress of inconsistency. “On one side, Rahul Gandhi and the AICC call PM Modi and Adani ‘Modani’ and oppose their friendship. But what we see here in Telangana is Revanth and Adani ‘Revdani’, or, can be called Rahul Gandhi and Adani as ‘Ragadani’,” KTR said.
Earlier this week, on September 15, the Congress accused the Mahayuti government of rigging a deal that awarded the Adani Group a contract to supply 6,600 MW of renewable and thermal power to Maharashtra. Calling the agreement a “rigged deal”, Congress leaders claimed the government is “tottering towards a landslide defeat” in the upcoming Assembly elections. This came after the Adani Group secured a bid to supply 6,600 MW of renewable and thermal power to Maharashtra.