At Komuram Bheem Adivasi Bhavan in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, on Thursday, 13 August 2026, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Anumula stood before a hall of first-generation government servants and told them something simple and deliberate: 'Hindus and Muslims are both like my two eyes — I see no difference between them.' The room held 782 minority candidates who had cracked Group 1, 2, 3, and 4 recruitments and national-level exams including NEET, IIT, and NIT entrance tests. The Chief Minister's Office of Telangana shared the address on X.

782 Achievers, One Stage in Banjara Hills

The event — the Telangana Minorities Pratibha Sadasshu (Minorities Talent Convention) — brought together candidates selected across multiple government job categories alongside students who secured top ranks in competitive national examinations. Ministers Ponnam, Azhar, and Ponguleti, adviser Mohd Ali Shabbir, and TGMREIS President Faheem Qureshi shared the stage. The CM congratulated each cohort, calling them proof that 'small families working hard can reach anywhere.'

The TSPSC Overhaul Revanth Is Claiming Credit For

The CM's sharpest remarks were directed at the recruitment machinery itself. He alleged that under the previous administration, Group-1 question papers were sold in the open market 'like peanuts' and that unqualified individuals were appointed to the Telangana Public Service Commission (TSPSC). After the Congress government took office in December 2023, he said, the state consulted the Union Public Service Commission Chairman and outside experts to fully overhaul the TSPSC — and then fought legal challenges from High Court to Supreme Court to ensure recruitments were completed. The 782 people in the room, he implied, are the proof that the system now works.

Skills Over Certificates — Germany and Japan in the Frame

Revanth's forward pitch was unambiguous: formal degrees matter up to Class 12, but what follows must be skill-led. 'Education alone changes our future,' he said, 'chduvokkate mana bhaviṣyattunu mārcutundi' — but skills are what open doors in Germany and Japan. He pointed to two concrete policy moves: the conversion of ITIs into ATCs (Advanced Training Centres) and the integration of polytechnic colleges under the proposed Skills University, both framed as preparation for a global labour market that rewards competency over credentials.

The 4% Reservation Line Revanth Drew

On minority reservations, the CM was pointed. He acknowledged attempts to remove the 4 per cent reservation for minorities in public employment and education — and declared flatly that those attempts failed. He also highlighted the 200-unit free electricity scheme, arguing that minority households disproportionately benefit from it, threading welfare delivery into the same political narrative of inclusion.

For 782 people who cleared some of India's most competitive examinations while navigating a system that had, by the CM's own account, been rigged against them, the convention was less a celebration than a reckoning — and a signal of what the Telangana government wants its minority welfare story to look like heading forward.