00:06Telling God our Chief Minister, Revant Reddy, his scheduled US visit was denied permission by the central government, by the
00:13MEA.
00:13And right after that, the MEA is now clarified, saying, and I quote here,
00:17the programme proposed in such cases should be appropriate to the office held to the purpose of the visit.
00:22In this particular case, that was not so.
00:25What the government, however, has highlighted in light of questions about political vendetta
00:30is that Revant Reddy had also applied for similar clearance to visit the United Kingdom and was granted that permission.
00:36It was only for the US leg that permission was denied by the Indian government.
00:41The MEA has said that essentially the purpose did not in fact fit the category and therefore clearance was not
00:48given.
00:49That it should be appropriate in such cases to the office held, the Chief Minister's office,
00:53and the purpose of the visit, in which case, in this case, the MEA didn't feel so, which is why
00:57permission was not granted.
00:59But like I said, the government has highlighted that there was also a request for a UK visit, which was
01:04allowed, which was approved.
01:07Let me say that the visit of Chief Ministers, as indeed of other dignitaries,
01:13are assessed by the Ministry of External Affairs in order to accord political clearance.
01:19The program proposed in such cases should be appropriate to the office held and the purpose of the visit.
01:29In this particular case, that was not so in respect of the United States, and therefore the clearance was denied,
01:37not given.
01:38Incidentally, let me also tell you that clearance was given for his visit to the United Kingdom.
01:45So we will await a statement there from the Telangana Chief Minister about the fact that he wasn't allowed to
01:50visit the United States.
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