Hyderabad, July 25 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday made a passionate pitch for youth empowerment, urging the Centre to immediately drop all legal cases filed against students involved in the nationwide NEET-UG protests while announcing plans to convene a special Assembly session to lower the minimum age for contesting elections to 21 years.

Addressing a gathering of youth and student leaders, Revanth Reddy framed the recent resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as a testament to the power of sustained democratic resistance, asserting that "the fight is far from over."

Connecting the street agitation to national policy reforms, the Chief Minister urged the Union Government to ensure that young...