In this breaking news report, India Today's Abdul Basheer details Lionel Messi's high-profile visit to Hyderabad. The Argentine legend met Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy at Taj Falaknuma Palace and is scheduled to play a friendly match at Uppal Stadium. The report confirms that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi will also attend the event. Basheer highlights the heightened security measures following alleged lapses during Messi's Kolkata visit, noting that the Telangana DGP has alerted officers to ensure a smooth event.
00:00And we open this bulletin with breaking news coming in from Hyderabad, the second leg of Lionel Messi's boat tour has begun.
00:15The Argentine footballer has reached Hyderabad and we'll be meeting Telangana Chief Minister Devan Taredi. He has met with him and the two will take the football field shortly. That is what is expected. And as you can see on your screens, he has met the Chief Minister.
00:35Joining us on the phone line is India Today's Abdul Bashir. Abdul, the visuals of the Chief Minister meeting with Messi are already on the screens, but it has been a very stressful day for the organizers. The organizer, main organizer is already arrested. Is the Hyderabad event going to go on as if nothing has happened?
01:00Well, what we are learning is that Messi, after the Kolkata event had arrived here in Hyderabad, after he had arrived, he was taken to Taj Palaknuma Palace, where the Chief Minister has met him there.
01:14From there, from there, he'll be now moving towards the Opal Stadium, where his program is right now scheduled. Now, most likely, what we are learning is that the program will take place. Messi is going to hold the program. The event will go on, is what we are learning.
01:30And in a very short while from now, the program is set to begin, where the Chief Minister, Ravens Reddy, is set to participate. In the Opal Stadium here, with Messi, he's having a 10-minute scheduled match between Team Ravens and Team Messi.
01:49Team Messi would be the number 10 and Team Ravens would be the number 9. They have a match scheduled, that is what we are learning. And Rahul Gandhi is also in Hyderabad to be present, to witness the match that is going to take place here in Opal Stadium.
02:07So, we have Chief Minister, Ravens Reddy, we have Rahul Gandhi, who is set to hold this particular event, is set to begin around 7.50. The match is set to kick off, where the Chief Minister and Lionel Messi will have a match together till 8.10.
02:30And then Honorable CM will then, the match is set to go on for one hour, after which the Q4 entry for Mr. Rahul Gandhi will take place around 8.18 is the schedule that has been given, then the group photo with both the teams will be taken by 8.15.
02:51So, this is a whole one hour schedule that Lionel Messi is having with Chief Minister, Ravens Reddy. From 7.50 to 8.20 is where the actual meet and greet of them will take place.
03:10We are in Opal Stadium of Telangana. Everything has been planned and what we are learning is that the match will go on after the schedule.
03:20Right. Abdul, what we have seen in Kolkata after that, can we expect the administration, the government, the organizers to scale up security and planning of the event?
03:32Well, yes, the Telangana DGP, immediately after the incident that had taken place in Kolkata had responded and alerted the officers here, all the lapses that have taken place in Kolkata will not be repeated and taken care of, is what they have said.
03:50The lapses that have happened there, there were already officers put in place to understand the management over there is what the DGP said.
03:58And after her review and her report from there, after the officers who were in Kolkata, the Telangana police officers who were there in Kolkata gave her a proper, you know, her report on the lapses that have taken place,
04:12the Telangana police has now prepared considering these lapses so that they don't take place in the Hyderabad city.
04:19And for the most awaited historic match now, in some time from now, the match is set to begin.
04:26And what we are learning is that Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister will have their final remarks.
04:32I mean, all the felicitations ceremony and giving away awards to the winner of the match that is going to take place will go on.
04:41And till 9 o'clock is what we are learning, from 7.50 to 9 o'clock, the whole program is scheduled in Rupal Stadium,
04:49where both Chief Minister and Rahul Gandhi will be present during the match of Messi here in Hyderabad.
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