Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao stayed away from the inauguration of the BRS office in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The ostensible reason was that he could not attend the inauguration due to two investment-related programs in Hyderabad.
He also claimed to be busy with the nominations being filed by the BRS candidates for the Cooperative Electricity Supply Society (CESS) elections in Sircilla.
The minister said that he had stayed back in Hyderabad due to this previously firmed-up schedule, and that the same had been reportedly informed to BRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and permission taken from him.
On the inauguration of the office in New Delhi, the minister extended his greetings to the party workers and said that the Chief Minister who was leading Telangana on a progressive path was foraying into national politics for a qualitative change in the country.
He added that the BRS would introduce Telangana's people's welfare and development policies to the rest of the nation.