Hyderabad, April 8 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday dismissed his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan's claims that Kerala had become the first state to completely eradicate extreme poverty.

Countering the points raised by Vijayan's letter to him earlier in the day, Revanth Reddy dashed off a reply, raising questions over Kerala's claims on poverty eradication and governance.

"You tweeted that by late 2025, Kerala is set to become the first state to completely eradicate extreme poverty. We are in April 2026. In your letter, you speak of 64,006 families still receiving micro-plans. I ask plainly: has extreme poverty been eradicated? Was the November 1, 2025 declaration independently verified?" he asked.

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