Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu manipulated the documents related to Heritage from Day One with an intention to cheat everyone and come unscathed if he was caught at any time, alleged State Finance Minister Konijeti Rosaiah.
At a press conference here on Saturday, he alleged that his wife’s name was written as N. Bhuvaneswari daughter of N.T. Rama Rao in Heritage documents, which displayed his intention.
J. Geeta Reddy, Major Industries Minister, on Saturday said that the Congress would come to power again after the next general elections as no government in the past had taken up as much of welfare schemes as those implemented by Chief Minister YS. Rajasekhara Reddy.
Addressing a gathering after distributing loans to 2,380 beneficiaries at Gajwel [...]
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has said that the Congress belongs to ‘Prajakutami’.
Speaking after inaugurating a shopping complex constructed at a cost of Rs.1.50 crores at Narsapur town in West Godavari district on Saturday, Dr. Reddy lashed out at the ‘Mahakutami’, comprising the TDP, the CPI, the CPI(M) and the TRS, saying it had no [...]
Straight from the lip: Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy blows a flying kiss to the large crowd (right) which attended his road show at Mogalturu in West Godavari district on Saturday.
Ending ten-day-long suspense that almost threatened formation of the nascent ‘grand alliance’ of four Opposition parties,
Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday finally announced that he would stay with it, having worked out seat-sharing arrangement with Telugu Desam.
Mr. Rao drove down to TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s residence along with senior leaders to make the announcement at a joint press conference amid chants of “Jai Telangana” by his supporters.
Going by their body language, both leaders seemed to have resolved to bury the hatchet, come to a workable understanding over the contentious issue of seat-sharing and ensure that the ‘grand alliance’ worked perfectly.
Rattled by allegations that the state government moves are keeping away central agencies like SFIO and SEBI from quizzing the Raju
brothers, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday stating that “our government would welcome making over the case to CBI, if deemed appropriate.”
Reddy in his [...]
Vijayshanti on Saturday merged her Talli Telangana Party with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). She met TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao at the latter’s residence here and became a member of TRS.
Vijayashanti, who earned the nickname ‘Lady Amitabh’ through her roles in several films, said she joined hands with TRS to achieve the common goal of separate statehood for the Telangana region. “All pro-Telangana forces should join hands to achieve the common goal,” she said.
In an attempt to enlighten BCs on securing power, the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) is going to hold week-long programmes from February 1 to 7. During the week, each day’s programmes will be dedicated to the name of different historical personalities belonging to the BCs.
PRP general secretary Allu Aravind announced the programme at a media [...]
As a part of his Praja Ankita Yatra, Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi will tour Nizamabad district, the native district of Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas, from February 1 to 4. He will hold road shows in 9 Assembly constituencies for four days in the district.
The party has released the tour schedule of Chiranjeevi [...]
After having road shows in various parts of the State till date, Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy will now undertake a road show at Mogalturu, birthplace of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president Chiranjeevi. As per schedule, the Chief Minister will begin his road show tomorrow morning starting from Mogalturu village in West Godavari district.
Film actor and Telugu Desam Party star campaigner Nandamuri Balakrishna today demanded the State Government to pay Rs 3,000 as compensation to groundnut farmers who lost their crop. If the State Government did not meet the demand, the TD Government would do it, if voted to power, he announced.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s flip-flop was on full display on Friday when he rubbed his shoulders with the leaders of the TDP-Left combine just a day after holding talks with the Prajarajyam Party headed by Chiranjeevi, and dropping enough hints of sailing with the actor-turned-politician.
However, the very next day, he was back with the TDP again. The Prajarajyam Party apparently offered the TRS 60 assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats.
The TRS chief held talks with the TDP-Left on seat-sharing. But he walked away just a week ago not satisfied with the seats offered by the TDP. He even went public saying that TRS was no beggar to accept crumbs after the TDP offered him seven Lok Sabha and 40 assembly seats.
The reason offered by KCR for his flip-flop was that a survey conducted by his party had indicated that his party men were overwhelmingly in favour of an alliance with the TDP-Left combine. TRS leader K Rama Rao told the media on Friday that the opinion elicited from 3,000 party workers through an SMS survey indicated that 42 per cent favoured the TRS going with the TDP-Left, 31 per cent with PRP, 18 per cent voted for a tie up with the BJP, 5 per cent wanted the party to go it alone while 4 per cent remained undecided.
After a flip-flop, Telangana Rashtra Samiti has indicated on Friday evening that it was close to firming seat sharing arrangement with Telugu Desam for the coming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections and it would indeed stay with ‘grand alliance’.
Sources in both TRS and TDP indicated that a broad understanding has been reached between them, under which the former could contest nine Lok Sabha and 45 Assembly constituencies. Barring a last minute hitch, an announcement is likely to be made at 12 noon on Saturday, Vasanta Panchami, treated as auspicious.
The breakthrough that eluded both parties for some days now, came on Friday evening following several rounds of hectic day-long consultations both within the two parties and then with one another mostly through telephone and mobile.
Elections are, at their core, about numbers. In such a situation, it should follow that the more alliances you have, the more your numbers and
the better the chances of forming a government.
But the number of partners you have also determines your share of the power pie and therein lies the catch. The Congress Working [...]
All the 11 candidates who had filed nomination papers for the vacant MLC seats under the MLA quota were declared elected here this afternoon.
Legislature Secretary and Returning Officer for MLC byelections under MLA quota S Raja Sadaram declared the Council results after the nomination withdrawal process came to an end at 3 pm today. Later, he handed over the Certificate of Election (Legislative Council) to the members who got elected unanimously at his chambers in the Assembly.
Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi today said it was up to the Telangana Rashra Samithi (TRS) to come forward over electoral alliance with his Praja Rajyam Party.
” Ball is in their court,”he told reporters here when asked about the possibility of [...]
Tension prevailed at Chilamathur when TDP activists pelted stones on the house of a PRP leader and the party office during Balakrishna’s roadshow in the town on Friday.
The TDP men were venting their ire on Chilamathur former sarpanch Muddu Krishna’s son K Kumar who has shifted his loyalties from the TDP by joining the PRP. [...]
The failure of the Central and State governments have led to attacks on Christians. When Praja Rajyam comes to power, it will address all these problems effectively, said party founder Chiranjeevi addressing a large gathering of devotees at Bible Mission Conventions here on Thursday.
This was Mr. Chiranjeevi’s first visit to Guntur district after the launch [...]
Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi said on Tuesday that the party high command would not brook dissidence and reminded district committee members that the need of the hour was for them to work together.
At the first meeting for Visakhapatnam (Urban & Rural), Chittoor, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad convened here since the district committees were formed, [...]
In a reversal of expectations, PRP member and Vijayawada urban secretary, Kesineni Nani is reported to be considering joining the Congress.
Sources close to Nani have informed Express that Kesineni Nani had met a senior Congress leader today.
Sources informed that Nani might announce his decision of joining the Congress tommorrow or the day after.
Nani, who [...]
In an apparent reference to a positive vote for his government in the coming elections, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday sought the blessings of people in the State. “We have launched so many welfare programmes. So, strengthen us, give us another chance”, he urged.
The Chief Minister was on a visit to Adilabad district [...]
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) State committee is expecting an early resolution to the stalemate in seat-sharing talks between the Telugu Desam and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti as “the sooner it settles down, the better it is for alliance partners to face the Congress.”
The CPI (M) State leadership feels that the talks for [...]
The Congress party proposes to use the alleged scam in Heritage Foods, owned by wife of opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu, to counter the joint attack by the TDP and Left parties on corruption in government programmes such as Jalayagnam.
The party has decided to launch a political attack against Naidu saying that he was fudging [...]
The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) on Friday said it would be a credible alliance partner in the third front against the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and reiterated that it would not be in any electoral alliance with the Congress.
The party described as “rubbish” reports in a section of the media that it has [...]
Aimed at shifting the attention towards the main Opposition party, Telugu Desam, the Congress Government, which is facing all kinds of allegations after the Satyam fraud and favouring Maytas Infra in awarding the Metro Rail Project, has trained its guns on TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu by accusing the former CM of padding up the [...]
First, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi clarified that he is not running against Advani for the prime minister’s post. On Thursday, Modi gave the BJP tips to help Advani’s run for the country’s top job.
At the BJP chief ministers meeting with Advani, Modi asked the party to adopt a positive attitude. He also asked the [...]
The recent feud in Krishna district unit of Praja Rajyam Party has thrown up new political equations in Vijayawada, which makes as much much political sense, as castebased politics.
Kesineni Nani, who belongs to the Kamma community, is believed to have been eyeing the Vijayawada Parliament seat ever since he joined the party. But, of late, [...]
The Praja Rajyam Party leadership has launched a damage control exercise in the aftermath of its urban convener Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) making a series of allegations against the top rung leaders, including Chiranjeevi and Allu Aravind.
The leadership sought to defend Mr. Chiranjeevi for not granting an interview to Mr. Nani to discuss the issue of [...]
Novelty marked the two-day protest launched by the grama sevaks, which culminated into the arrest of over 50 members, including CITU district leaders – K. Rajarammohan Roy and Ch. Babu Rao.
Over 200 grama sevaks thronged the Collectorate from different parts of the district for the protest.
They all, including women, cooked food, dined and slept on [...]
‘Liquor king’ unworthy of the post he is holding, says the
yoga guru
HYDERABAD: Yoga guru Ramdev Baba on Thursday came down heavily on Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Chairman D. K. Adikesavulu Naidu, calling him a ‘liquor king’ and unworthy of the post he was holding.
The row began when the yoga guru on a visit to the city [...]
The failure of the Central and State governments have led to attacks on Christians. When Praja Rajyam comes to power, it will address all these problems effectively, said party founder Chiranjeevi addressing a large gathering of devotees at Bible Mission Conventions here on Thursday.
This was Mr. Chiranjeevi’s first visit to Guntur district after the launch [...]
Four Ministers have demanded that Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu come clean in the alleged diversion of funds in Heritage Foods promoted by his family and asserted that, in any case, the law would take its own course.
At a joint press conference here on Thursday, Ministers A. Ramanarayan Reddy (Information), B. Satyanarayana (Housing), K. [...]
Actor-turned-politician Nandamuri Balakrishna on Thursday kicked off his campaign for the Telugu Desam Party taking pains to refresh people’s memory of his father N. T. Rama Rao by raising the issue of self-respect of Telugus.
With Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy naming just about any and every programme after the Gandhi family, the Telugus’ self-respect was being pawned in the corridors of power in New Delhi, he said, urging people to use their vote and show the door to the “corrupt Congress government”. He recalled that it was NTR who fought for Telugus’ self-respect.
He struck a rapport with the masses instantly on his first roadshow here on Thursday. In company of his elder brother N. Harikrishna, he drew a huge response. He explained how TDP had achieved social justice by making ‘dalits’ as Assembly and Lok Sabha Speakers, ensured one-third quota for women in local bodies and set up a separate university for women, along with a slew of other measures.
his will give more flexibility to the party in post-poll negotiations.
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While welcoming film actor N Balakrishna’s decision to enter active politics, agriculture minister N Raghuveera Reddy on Thursday
sought to know whether he was into public service with an aim to fulfil NTR’s pro-poor agenda or promote his `unscrupulous’ brother-in-law N Chandrababu Naidu.
Reacting to Balayya’s speech in Hindupur of Anantapur district on Thursday, the minister asked [...]
With the Lok Sabha polls drawing near, the Congress Working Committee meeting here on Thursday is expected to finalise the strategy to take on the challenges from the Left and the BJP.
Going to the Parliamentary polls for the first time after sharing power at the Centre, the Congress is likely to give finishing touches to [...]
After putting up a show of `grand alliance’ with the TDP-Left combine and then walking away over the issue of seat-sharing, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Thursday gave indications that it may finally sail with Chiranjeevi’s Prajarajyam Party.
Sources in the TRS and Prajarajyam told TOI that PRP president Chiranjeevi and TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar [...]
Anticipating the poll notification in early February, Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has asked his Cabinet colleagues and officials to rush through the inauguration and laying of foundation stone for new schemes immediately.
Following the Election Commission’s hints that general elections are likely in April-May, Dr. Reddy is believed to have said: “Do not wait [...]
The Congress party proposes to use the alleged scam in Heritage Foods, owned by wife of opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu, to
counter the joint attack by the TDP and Left parties on corruption in government programmes such as Jalayagnam.
The party has decided to launch a political attack against Naidu saying that he was fudging records [...]
In a scathing attack on the grand alliance of Telugu Desam, Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Left combine, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has said that they had compromised on their ideological positions and stitched an unholy alliance with the sole aim of dethroning the Congress-led government.
Addressing a slew of well-attended roadside meetings during the [...]
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s family-owned Heritage Foods is in the news for some alleged irregularities that are said to have shortchanged its shareholders.
It is being alleged that the promoters of the public company floated Heritage Infra and transferred land to it cheating the investors of Heritage Foods. (Watch)
The critical question is whether [...]
Four ministers in the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Thursday demanded that Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy immediately order an inquiry into alleged swindling of public funds by Heritage Foods, a company owned by the family of Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
At the same time, they demanded that Chandrababu Naidu himself come out [...]
With general election
just around the corner, everyone, including NCP chief Sharad Pawar, is scrambling to form new alliances. However, Pawar has said that his party does not have the numbers.
“Unless we have numbers in the Parliament, I will not make any attempt to form the government at the Centre,” he said.
Pawar’s denial has come within [...]
India’s two biggest national parties the BJP and Congress are fully in election mode. The parties have started announcing their list of candidates for the parliamentary elections slated for April-May this year.
The Congress Working Committee is meeting in the Capital on Thursday to fine tune its election strategy.
Discussions are also taking place on what kind [...]
Though cine actor N Balakrishna will launch his election campaign from Hindupur tomorrow, he is unlikely to act in an advertisement film for the ensuing elections for Telugu Desam Party. “I have no plans to act in an advertisement film for the party,” Balakrishna told to The New Indian Express.
It may be recalled that TDP [...]
Andhra’s fledgling Praja Rajyam party’s founder-head, Chiranjeevi, has been reported as having promised various things for women on law and order, if elected. Given the huge crowds he continues to draw, these views are of some importance; some day, he might try out some or all of these. Our staffers had, last week, reported the [...]
A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision making body of Congress, began at 10:30 a.m. at the residence of party Chief Sonia Gandhi.
The committee will discuss strengthening of alliances, finalisation of the manifesto and preparing a strategy to succeed in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not participate [...]
Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Mandali Buddha Prasad has alleged that the public sector dairy in Andhra Pradesh was systematically rundown by N. Chandrababu Naidu when he was Chief Minister in order to benefit Heritage Foods, the private dairy owned by his family. The Minister said this after Kankipadu MLA Devineni Rajasekhar [...]
With barely 80 days left for the Congress government’s tenure in the State, political parties in the district have launched their unofficial election campaigns and are virtually holding preparatory election rallies and asking people to vote for them in the elections due to be held in April 2009.
Election atmosphere gripped the district with the visit [...]
ELURU: Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) activists on Wednesday laid siege to the Collectorate here seeking urgent measures to protect the standing crop in the rabi that came under serious threat in view of acute shortage of water in the Godavari.
A large number of people owing allegiance to the PRP, mostly from the delta areas, reached the Collectorate to express their resentment on the alleged inept handling of the problem by the government.
‘No commitment’
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Wednesday inaugurated the Rajiv Gruhakalpa Housing scheme at Vaikuntapuram here in the presence of elected representatives and senior Housing Board officials.
He also laid foundation stones to the comprehensive drinking water project to be laid at a cost of Rs.90 crores, developmental works with funding from IHSDP to be carried [...]
The whirlwind visit of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to the coastal Guntur regions infused the much needed vigour into the party, facing the elections in a couple of months. The unprecedented crowd response to the road side meetings have brought back the smiles to the faces of the Congress leaders. The Chief Minister while [...]
Yuvarajyam president and Chiranjeevi’s younger brother Pavan Kalyan married his live-in companion of eight years, former actress Renu Desai on Wednesday. Pavan Kalyan and Renu Desai have a son Akira Nandan.
After a protracted legal wrangle last year, Pavan Kalyan had got a divorce from his first wife Nandini of Visakhapatnam whom he had married in May 1997.
In August 2008, the divorce was formalized in a family court in Visakhapatnam with Kalyan agreeing to pay an alimony of Rs 5 crore as a one-time settlement. On Wednesday morning, the wedding ceremony of Pavan Kalyan and Renu Desai, was performed as per Arya Samaj rites at Pavan Kalyan’s residence at Jubilee Hills in the city. Renu Desai had paired with Pavan Kalyan in two Telugu films `Badri’ and `Johnny’.
Prajarajyam party Vijayawada Urban district convenor Kesineni Nani on Wednesday lashed out at state general secretary and Chiranjeevi’s brother-in-law Allu Aravind for encouraging casteism in the party.
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams board chairman D K Adikeshavulu Naidu criticised the much-hyped `Dalita Govindam’ programme introduced
by his predecessor B Karunakar Reddy at a religious meeting here on Wednesday.
Inaugurating the three-day Vaikhanasa Vidwat sadassu here, the TTD chief said gone were the days when Dalits faced discrimination in all spheres. “Everyone is equal before the Lord [...]
Continuing his tirade against the opposition parties, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy
demanded an explanation from the Left parties for aligning with Chandrababu Naidu whom they had once branded as the World Bank’s “paleru” (stooge).
In a whirlwind tour of the delta region in Guntur district on Wednesday, the CM lashed out at the TRS also for setting aside its main goal of achieving a separate Telangana state in order to defeat the Congress in the coming polls. He said it was unfortunate that the Left parties in the name of unseating his government joined hands with Naidu.
The bail petitions of Satyam scam-accused B Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and their chief financial officer Vadlamani
Srinivas, were dismissed by a criminal court in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Delivering his judgment on the petitions filed by the three accused, sixth additional chief metropolitan magistrate D Ramakrishna said it would not be correct to grant bail [...]
Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has requested the Ministries of Finance and Company Affairs to suggest a coordinating mechanism involving the central investigation agencies like Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) and the State’s Crime Investigation Department inquiring into the Satyam Computers’ fraud.
He said he was making [...]
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The Satyam fraud, torn between Andhra Pradesh police and restless securities regulators with no access to main accused B Ramalinga Raju, lurched towards a federal probe with the state government offering to hand investigations over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A local court, meanwhile, dismissed the bail plea of disgraced disgraced founder Raju, his [...]
The CPI Maoists shot another open letter to Telangana protagonists opposing the proposed alliance between Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the next elections
.
The copies of the letter were sent to a section of the media today.
This was the second letter dashed off by the Maoists on the formation of Grand [...]
The Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) may join hands with Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party if the efforts to form a grand electoral alliance with the Telugu Desam Party-Left fail. The TDP, TRS, CPI, CPI(M) have proposed to form a ‘grand alliance’ for the coming Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections. The seat-sharing that the TRS has suggested in case an alliance is forged is apparently unacceptable to the TDP-Left parties.
Alleging massive financial irregularities and benami transactions involving Heritage Foods, the N Chandrababu Naidu family-owned
company, finance minister K Rosaiah on Tuesday said that the TDP president owed an explanation to the shareholders and the people of the state about the `truth’ behind these alleged dealings and the attempts to cover up the same after the [...]
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday said that neither he nor his party leaders got any letter from the Maoists warning the
party against going for a tie-up with the TDP in the coming elections.
A controversy was raked up when TRS leaders and CPM state Secretary BV Raghavulu claimed that the letter allegedly written by [...]
Removal of hoardings being arranged by TDP leaders welcoming cine actor N. Balakrishna, ahead of his scheduled visit to the district from January 29 by the municipal authorities sparked off a row here on Tuesday.
It was settled amicably in the end with the TDP getting one-time exception after Deputy Mayor S. Sreeramulu intervened in the [...]
Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi said on Tuesday that the party high command would not brook dissidence and reminded district committee members that the need of the hour was for them to work together.
At the first meeting for Visakhapatnam (Urban & Rural), Chittoor, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad convened here since the district committees were formed, [...]
Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) founder Manda Krishna on Tuesday demanded that the Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy exert pressure on AICC chairperson Sonia Gandhi and ensure the Scheduled Castes categorisation Bill be passed in Parliament.
At a press conference, he said it was a pity that Dr. Reddy was trying to convey his sincerity by [...]
After a purported letter written by Maoist leader Sudarshan creating sensation with in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and later denial by Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao of receiving any such letter, the party is in second thought. If not all, at least some of the party leaders were with the opinion that the [...]
The Zilla Parishad general body meeting of Ranga Reddy district on Tuesday was marked by allegations of scam in housing programmes and issues like pollution and implementation of mid-day meal programme in the district.
Chaired by Zilla Parishad Chairperson P. Sunitha Mahender Reddy, the meeting had several members raising the issue of housing and levelling a [...]
Finance Minister K. Rosaiah and two other candidates among the 11, who filed their nominations for the Legislative Council elections to fill up vacancies from the MLA quota, have declared their assets valued at more than a crore each.
Apart from Mr. Rosaiah, K. Yadava Reddy (Congress) and Nannapaneni Rajakumari (TDP) are the other millionaires. [...]
In an apparent reference to a positive vote for his government in the coming elections, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday sought the blessings of people in the State. “We have launched so many welfare programmes. So, strengthen us, give us another chance”, he urged.
The Chief Minister was on a visit to Adilabad district [...]
Eleven candidates, including Finance Minister K. Rosaiah of Congress, filed their nomination papers for the Legislative Council elections from the Assembly constituency on Tuesday.
Of the 11, eight were from the Congress and three from the Telugu Desam Party. They submitted their nomination papers to the Legislature Secretary Raja Sadaram. All the 11 are likely to be elected unopposed as the number of vacancies are also the same. Surprisingly, the Congress did not field another candidate though the ruling party and its allies have almost sufficient strength in the Assembly to ensure the victory of nine candidates. This enabled the TDP to field three candidates and win all.
Apart from Mr. Rosaiah, the other Congress nominees are — Rudraraju Padmaraju, Peer Shabbir Ahmed, N. Rajalingam, K. Yadava Reddy, K. R. Amos, G. Thippeswamy and Singam Basavapunnaiah.
The stalemate in the talks for electoral alliance between Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and TDP-Left in Andhra Pradesh still continues.
“The stalemate is continuing. Let’s see what happens,” TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao told reporters here today.
The talks (which started last week) between TRS and the TDP, CPI and CPI(M) were deadlocked over the number of [...]
Even as the Telangana issue continues to simmer, suspected Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) activists beat up a dozen people who had come for an interview at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd’s Ramachandrapuram unit on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Medak district SP V C Sajjanar said that six persons were arrested in connection with the attack. They were later remanded in judicial custody.
TRS has been crying shrill about ‘outsiders’ taking jobs that were meant for locals and therefore, demanding the creation of a Telangana state to undo this injustice.
Sajjanar said trouble started after BHEL put out the list of candidates for the interview.
Locals and some BHEL employees went on a protest, saying the list was full of outsiders. Soon members of the local unit of Telangana Joint Action Committee joined the protest.
With the situation threatening to get out of control, the BHEL management cancelled the interviews and asked applicants to return to their homes. This, however, did not assuage the anger of the activists, who beat up few of the applicants, which included persons from Kerala,
Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
“They threatened to kill me if I came back for interview at a later date. I will not come back and look for jobs elsewhere,” said Ramana Murthy, an applicant from coastal Andhra.
Applicants from Tamil Nadu lodged a complaint with the Chennai police on their return.
