Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi has declared that the Fourth Front might consider Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar as Prime Minister in the post-poll scenario if things take shape as expected.
Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, he said Mr. Pawar was a competent and a worthy candidate. The leaders of the Front would hold [...]
People at Ramnagar in Chirala constituency did not cast their vote till 4.30 pm on the polling day on April
23 in protest against non-disbursement of cash by the candidates. Realising that polling would be over even if they did not turn up to exercise their franchise, few women went to the polling booth and smashed [...]
With the prospects of a hung assembly looming large and the need for a consensus coalition chief minister in that event, former PCC
president K Keshava Rao has become the latest Telangana Congress backward class (BC) leader whose name is doing the rounds for the top post. Keshava Rao, a former journalist is however a Rajya Sabha MP and had not contested the assembly polls.
The race among BC leaders to become the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from that community began two days ago when Y S Rajasekhara Reddy proposed the name of major irrigation minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah as a chief ministerial candidate.
Brushing aside media reports that a Backward Class (BC) Congress leader would become the next Chief Minister in the State, Panchayat Raj Minister J C Diwakar Reddy today asserted that the Congress was going to form the government once again with Y S Rajasekhara Reddy as the Chief Minister. He said the opposition Grand [...]
Former minister and TDP candidate for Jammalamadugu Assembly seat in Kadapa P Ramasubba Reddy today urged Chief Electoral Officer IV Subba Rao to order repoll in five polling booths in the constituency alleging rigging by Congress workers. The CEO assured him of taking the issue to the notice of the Election Commission for necessary action.
Ramasubba [...]
Tadipatri DSP M Srinivasulu today said 13 more Congress and Telugu Desam activists were arrested taking the total number of arrests in the post poll violence to 113. Cases were registered against 600 Congress and TDP activists for indulging in post poll violence. The DSP asked municipal vice-chairman JC Prabhakar Reddy and Peram Nagireddy, perpetrators [...]
For a change, Praja Rajyam party president Chiranjeevi was at the receiving end at the party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting yesterday when party seniors cornered him with a demand to know the basis on which candidates’ selection took place for the Assemly and Lok Sabha seats.
Till date the Nara family has always been involved in politics and though they have close family relations with the Nandamuri clan, they have never got into movies.
But now, all that is about to change as Nara Rohit is all set to make his debut with a new movie. Rohit happens to be the son [...]
Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy today directed Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy to monitor on a day-today basis issues pertaining to supply of power and drinking water, prices of essential commodities, procurement of farmers produce etc.
Accordingly, the Chief Secretary would hold a video conference with all the district collectors and other senior officials concerned to [...]
With polling over in the State, many politicians are spending sleepless nights, not knowing what their fate would be on the day of counting of votes on May 16.
But Lok Satta Party (LSP) president Jayaprakash Narayan is different.
He visited slums to identify the problems in the Kukatpally Assembly constituency, which he is contesting, and made [...]
There is a difference of opinion among Telangana and Andhra leaders in Telugu Desam Party (TDP) over taking the support of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) MLAs to form the next Government.
Despite its alliance with the TRS and the Left and Cash Transfer and colour TV schemes, the TDP is not sure of getting a simple [...]
Nara Lokesh, son of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, who campaigned for his father in Kuppam for almost 10 days, went to the US on a personal trip, contrary to the speculation that he was going abroad to study the party’s prestigious Cash Transfer Scheme (CTS), party sources said.
Meanwhile, the TDP chief informed his partymen [...]
Anticipating a hung Assembly in the State, the ruling Congress has started looking at other political parties, especially the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), for support to form the next government. Senior Congress leader and MP K Keshava Rao has dropped enough hints about a possible post-poll alliance between the [...]
Pandemonium prevailed at the municipal council meeting here on Wednesday with the Congress councillors breaking glasses and mikes at the
meeting hall, turning the session into a virtual battlefield.
With the meeting turning ugly, council chairman Bapatla Hanumantha Rao adjourned the meeting. And in violation of the election code, the chairman announced that he had accepted all [...]
Praja Rajyam’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) is understood to be mulling extending support to the candidature of Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar as Prime Minister after the Fourth Front took shape following the announcement of results on May 16.
A suggestion to this effect is learnt to have been made by senior party leaders P. Shiv Shankar and P. Upendra at a meeting of the PAC here on Tuesday. Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi has held consultations in the past with an NCP representative and, more recently, with Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh to discuss the way forward for the front.
There is a calm, the kind of which has not been seen in the Urdu Press in Hyderabad for about three
years.
There is no attack, no swipe, no mean editorial or reporting against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, the party that is ruling the roost in the old quarters of Hyderabad for over half century, in Siasat or Munsif. [...]
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhara Rao is taking no chances this time in keeping his flock of 45 MLA and 9 MP candidates together. On the eve of counting day, the entire group will move into Telangana Bhavan in the upmarket Banjara Hills, where they will be closeted with their leader. To keep them [...]
Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday appeared livid though not perturbed by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s latest salvo that he was open to the idea of supporting the BJP-led NDA after elections.
Asked to comment on Mr. Rao’s assertion that had the potential of embarrassing the Grand Alliance, Mr. [...]
Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy today ordered senior power officials concerned to take steps for ensuring proper and reliable power supply to both agricultural and domestic sectors. “Seven hours of quality power supply to farmers should be continued at any cost and there should not be any power trippings for domestic sector,’’he noted.
Rajasekhara Reddy today [...]
Confident of a good show in both the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Sunday left for Delhi to lobby for separate statehood to the Telangana region.
Even before the completion of the election process in most parts of the country, the TRS has launched efforts not only [...]
The political parties and the candidates who liberally spent money on paid articles that featured in vernacular dailies during the
elections are in for a shock.
The CEO I V Subba Rao on Tuesday directed all the district collectors to treat all such articles as advertisements and include the cost incurred on them in the election expenditure [...]
The Praja Rajyam Party’s cup of woes continues to overflow, with Chiranjeevi confidant and party general secretary Dr Mitra keeping off the party’s political affairs committee meeting, sending a clear signal that he has called it quits.
This was expected about a week ago because Dr Mitra, like his erstwhile colleague Parakala Prabhakar, was increasingly [...]
Following representation made by Telugu Desam Party demanding a repoll in as many as 54 polling booths in Pulivendula (where Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy was one of the contestent) and another nine in Badwel Assembly segments falling under Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency, State Chief Electoral Officer IV Subba Rao said that there was [...]
The Telugu Desam Party seems to be preparing itself for a bumpy ride with its poll ally, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), anticipating that the separatist party could veer towards the NDA in the post-poll scenario given the BJP’s commitment to the Telangana cause.
‘‘TRS is no doubt a part of the Grand Alliance in [...]
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership has decided to make elaborate arrangements in the Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters, in view of a two-day camp being held there from May 15 for all the party candidates who contested the elections.
The TRS leadership is expecting a hung Assembly in the State. To avoid poaching of their [...]
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today alleged that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu had already established contacts with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a tie up at the Centre after the ongoing general elections.
Speaking to media persons here, Rajasekhara Reddy said being a rank opportunist, Chandrababu Naidu had entrusted the [...]
Congress candidates in Guntur and Prakasam districts had no problems with chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s son Jaganmohan Reddy
campaigning for them, but with the EC authorities breathing down their necks, they have virtually disowned him.
The election
authorities in these two districts are gunning for the Congress candidates because, as per rules, the expenditure of only [...]
With the election commission relaxing the code of conduct, the TDP on Tuesday demanded that the government wake up from slumber,
review the acute drinking water and power shortage situation in the state and take necessary measures to meet the challenges.
A delegation led by TDP leader K Vijayarama Rao and E Dayakar Rao called on the [...]
YSR and PCC president D Srinivas are expected to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday to submit the progress report on the State elections.
Rajasekhar Reddy , who arrived here on Monday, met incharge of party affairs in the State Vayalar Ravi and discussed the possible outcome of the elections. Rajasekhar Reddy is understood to [...]
The Praja Rajyam is confident of winning at least 160 seats, thereby acquiring a clear majority i n the 294-strong Assembly and forming the next government in the State.
With political affairs committee member P Upendra today submitting to party supremo Chiranjeevi a list of candidates who were “going to win the elections’’, the latter declared with satisfaction that polling had gone according to expectations.
The star-turned-politician, who returned to the city on Saturday night after campaigning, was informally interacting at his residence with leaders P Upendra, Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao, P Vinay Kumar and Umamalleswara Rao.
Accusing grand alliance parties of back tracking from its promise, BJP Andhra Pradesh unit today alleged that TDP and TRS parties are cheating the people on the issue of separate statehood for Telangana region.
Speaking to reporters here, BJP leader and former Union minister Ch Vidyasagar Rao said before the [...]
Admitting for the first time that Congress may not get the simple or absolute majority in Andhra Pradesh as has been claimed by chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the party high command is putting together a contingency plan for a Congress-led coalition government in the state with a new person as the CM instead of Rajasekhara Reddy.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Monday said he was hopeful of non-Congress and non-BJP parties forming the next government in Delhi.
Mr. Karat, who flew down to Hyderabad for a luncheon meeting with Telugu Desam party president N. Chandrababu Naidu, said they had preliminary discussions on how to go forward after [...]
With all indications suggesting that the elections may throw up the mother of all `hung’ houses, wagers are on which way the floating players might break post-poll.
While divining the real intent of astute politicians is a dangerous venture, reactions of some of these players to the government’s move to help Bofors case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi [...]
In a startling statement, Congress candidate for the Munugodu Assembly seat in Nalgonda district Palvai Govardhan Reddy has said that the Grand Alliance was quite strong in Telangana and that it would get more seats than the Congress in districts which went to the polls in the first phase.
Given that the TRS was a [...]
Lok Satta president Jayaprakash Narayan said the party would be taking a number of citizen-centric initiatives in future irrespective of the election outcome. “The Lok Satta is the real winner in the elections in that it has earned the silent support of lakhs of youth, women, middle classes and the poor without inducing them with [...]
Voters in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, home to about a third of India’s total parliamentary seats, may decide who forms the government in the world’s biggest democracy.
The performance of regional parties that dominate these states will be crucial as polls predict the coalition led by the ruling Congress [...]
In an apparent attempt to keep the third front partners together in the post-poll scenario, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat held extensive talks with Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu here on Monday.
Karat’s primary goal is to ensure that the parties comprising the third front stick to the current line that they would support neither [...]
The Telugu Desam Party is preparing the stage to dump the cash transfer scheme in case it wins the next elections, said Sravan, the general secretary of Yuva Rajyam, the youth wing of the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP).
Speaking to mediapersons here today, he said the party was already sending feelers that the scheme was not [...]
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) annual conclave - Mahanadu - will be held in Hyderabad this year. The party politburo which met here today decided to conduct the Mahanadu in the city from May 28.
The last year’s Mahanadu was not held as Naidu was busy with `Mee kosam’ tour.
Taking serious note of the attacks of [...]
Congress and PRP leaders top the election expenditure list in six Assembly segments each in West Godavari district. Whereas the TDP candidates top election expenditure in three Assembly segments.
In Palacole Assembly segment Praja Rajyam party president Konidela Chiranjeevi spent Rs. 4,65,364 against Congress candidate Bangaru Usharani who spent Rs 4,87,492 and TDP candidate Ch Satyanarayana [...]
Congress candidate for Chittoor assembly constituency C K Jayachandra Reddy alias C K Babu was arrested on Monday following a complaint
lodged by TDP leaders at Yadamarri police station in Chittoor.
The TDP leaders complained that CK was involved in the attack on the house of a TDP MPTC member Chitti, which was destroyed by a mob [...]
Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat discussed the latest political scenario with Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu at the latter’s residence here on Monday.
On landing in Hyderabad on Monday afternoon, Mr. Karat drove straight to Mr. Naidu’s residence along with CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and state secretary B V Raghavulu and discussed the electoral prospects of the Grand Alliance in Andhra Pradesh where elections have just ended.
Mr. Karat and Mr.Naidu also deliberated on the Third Front’s electoral prospects, TDP sources said. Mr. Naidu reportedly told the CP(M) general secretary that the TDP-TRS-CPI-CP(M) combine put up a good show and would secure a clear majority to form the next government in the state. The Grand Alliance would also bag the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats in the state so as to emerge as a decisive force at the national level, he reportedly added.
The influence of money – and not ideologies – has perceptibly gone up in the elections to the 15th Lok Sabha. There are more crorepatis in the fray than ever before.
For Congress, the biggest challenge will be to bag the maximum number of seats in the remaining three phases.
Not only is the party confronted with the spectre of a significant reduction in its seats from Andhra Pradesh, the state which had sent the largest contingent to the Lok Sabha in 2004, it is being projected [...]
The Praja Rajyam chief, Chiranjeevi, is not ready to reveal which party he would support in the event of a fractured mandate, but believes that the Telugu Desam chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, is craftier than chief minister, Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, who is “outspoken and bold”.
The megastar’s comments may give food for thought to [...]
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), spearheading the movement for a separate state of Telangana to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, today celebrated its eighth foundation day.
Senior leader Nayini Narasimha Reddy hoisted [...]
After a tiring month-long election campaign in hot summer, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is planning a visit to Shimla for a holiday along with members of his family.
Besides, the Chief Minister is also planning to campaign for some of the Congress candidates who are in the fray in the remaining three phases of [...]
ANDHRA PRADESH recorded the largest turn out of voters in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. In the first two phases, the polling was completed for all the 42 Lok Sabha and 294 Assembly constituencies.
Veteran freedom fighter and former minister Konda Lakshman Bapuji has called upon all separatists to wage a united struggle, instead of depending on political leaders, to achieve statehood to Telangana.
Speaking at the release of a book, `Telangana _ Saga of a Tragic Struggle’, written by journalist Adiraju Venkateswara Rao at a function here today, Bapuji [...]
Even before the counting for the recently concluded elections begins, the candidates of both the Congress and the Grand Alliance are vying among themselves to claim that they would come to power.
Both the TDP and the TRS cadres are of the opinion that the Grand Alliance would form Government in the State and Babu [...]
The initial euphoria in the TDP that the Grand Alliance would secure not fewer than 200 seats is slowly wearing off. While still hoping for the best, the main Opposition has settled down to study alternative scenarios.
In case the alliance does not get the magic figure, the TDP is unwilling to either to support [...]
The polls have long since closed, but the din and the strife continues in East Godavari district, with clashes taking place on caste and party lines.
Folks in Balusutippa, a fishing village of Katrenikona mandal in East Godavari district, have been spending sleepless nights — both before and since the polls — on account of clashes [...]
Taking their constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights seriously, the scheduled caste folk of Kondramutlapalem village in Eepuru mandal under the Vinukonda Assembly constituency voted freely in the recent election — only to end up confronted with a social boycott by the upper castes.
Express visited the village and found the SCs shunned for having disregarded the fiat [...]
The Communist Party of India, a member of the Grand Allliance and supporter of the demand for statehood to Telangana, has taken objection to Telangana Rashtra Samiti’s insistence that the Telugu Desam should take the lead in formation of a separate state.
CPI State secretary K Narayana said that though his party was committed to [...]
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is very confident of scoring a victory in the assembly elections. What led him to this conclusion is known to none although there are guesses galore. But this time around, the voter is giving nothing away!.HOW COULD Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, be so confident that [...]
Though TDP leaders find the demand of the TRS that a resolution favouring a separate State of Telangana be adopted in the very first session of the Assembly unpalatable, they are not saying so openly as they might need the separatist party’s support to form a government in the State.
Outwardly, they find nothing wrong in [...]
With speculation that no party would be able to form the next government on its own, the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) is emerging as a deciding factor in the State.
If the party’s attitude toward the major parties, the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), is any indication, it is likely that the PRP may [...]
A diminutive man, barely 5 feet 4 inches tall, emerges from the jungle, flashing a disarming smile. Dressed in creased full-sleeve cotton shirt
and trousers, shabby cap and worn-out chappals, there’s no way you can understand who he really is. The AK-56 rifle slung across his shoulder offers a hint, though. But what settles the [...]
A diminutive man, barely 5 feet 4 inches tall, emerges from the jungle, flashing a disarming smile. Dressed in creased full-sleeve cotton shirt and trousers, shabby cap and worn-out chappals, there’s no way you can understand who he really is. The AK-56 rifle slung across his shoulder offers a hint, though. But what settles the [...]
There is a lull in Prajarajyam Party despite claims by a cross section of leaders that a silent revolution would be unfolding on May
16, the day of counting.
At a time when the party has begun an elaborate post-poll analysis to assess the feedback being received from the grassroot level, several PRP contestants are unhappy that [...]
The Prajarajyam Party on Sunday slammed chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and some of his cabinet colleagues for planning to go on
a holiday soon after elections.
Party president Chiranjeevi, in a press release, alleged that the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues were shirking their responsibilities as soon as the elections came to an end [...]
: AP State Higher Education Council chairman K C Reddy has directed the heads of all the universities in the state to strictly
implement the Acts on ragging.
Reddy said no leniency should be shown insofar as cases of ragging in the universities are concerned and culprits are brought to book. He asked the VCs not to [...]
Polls are worth a fight, but in the faction-ridden Rayalaseema districts the fight goes beyond this parameter. The focus of the fight,
instead, is on one-upmanship and prestige. The post-poll violence in Tadipatri and incidents of bomb attacks and destruction of EVMs in Kadapa district are only the tip of the iceberg, the actual problem is [...]
Tadipatri strongman J C Diwakar Reddy has won five consecutive times from Tadipatri assembly constituency. That he wasn’t defeated
even during N T Rama Rao’s sway in 1983 polls stands testimony to his stranglehold on the constituency.
But things have changed a lot in the fiefdom of the panchayat raj minister in the last five years. If the mindless violence a day after the April 23 polling has put the minister in poor light, what has come as a shocker was JC’s claim that he and his brother, J C Prabhakar Reddy, have nothing to hide and it was TDP’s goons who have spread terror in the town.
VIJAYAWADA: Speculations over a large scale of cross-voting by Kapu voters in this part of the region is making candidates jittery here. The candidates took the calculators out and were busy analysing the polling patterns. Most of the candidates, irrespective of the political affiliations, came to a conclusion that Kapu voters had used their “wisdom” [...]
THE emergence of Third alternative to the Congress and the BJP in the country and victory of the alliance of four friendly parties - TDP, CPI(M), CPI and TRS - in Andhra Pradesh was certain in the general elections, Prakash Karat, general secretary of the CPI(M), asserted. Addressing a massive public meeting in Tirupati [...]
In the last week, more people have searched online for Sanjay Dutt in Pakistan than in India. He is also virtually more popular in Bhopal than in Mumbai.
First-time politicians are grabbing more eyeballs virtually than young Turks. Google Trends shows that apart from political bigwigs, like L.K. Advani and Sonia Gandhi, new entrants are topping [...]
Ahead of the 2004 general election, voters across the country received phone calls purportedly from the prime minister himself.
To be more precise, it was a pre-recorded, automated message from Atal Bihari Vajpayee appealing to citizens to vote for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the coalition it led, the National Democratic Alliance.
Smart messaging: Parties are [...]
ANANTAPUR: It looks like a reversal of fate this time in Anantapur district, which is witnessing post poll violence, especially in Tadipatri Constituency. Last time, Congress secured 8 of 14 seats with TDP bagging the remaining seats.
This time it is likely to be TDP - 8, Congress - 6.
The trend of voting and feedback from [...]
This must be one of the dullest elections held and the most uncertain in terms of the outcome. People have walked in and walked out of parties. Winnability and notoriety have been equated. Past performance has ceased to matter. Ideology has been thrown out of the window. The dividing line between parties has been changed [...]
Apparently sure that the TDP-led Grand Alliance will not be able to form government in the State without the support of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), its chief K Chandrasekhara Rao is adopting pressure building tactics from now itself.
On equations in Delhi too, Rao is keeping his options open, dropping sufficient indications that the TRS [...]
Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president D Srinivas today asserted that there was nothing wrong in the statement made by Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Telangana at Nandyal in Kurnool district on April 16.
The Chief Minister had tried to explain the situation that would prevail if at all Telangana State was formed through the [...]
The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) today questioned why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi wanted to keep its flock together if the party leaders were confident of the Grand Alliance victory in the Assembly elections.
Speaking to mediapersons here today, party general secretary P Vinaykumar wanted to know whether TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao was no longer confident [...]
Pooh-poohing the Cash Transfer Scheme (CTS) of the Telugu Desam Party, Minister for Major Irrigation Ponnala Lakshmaiah has said that the scheme was not viable.
Speaking to mediapersons here today, he said that people did not trust TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu’s election promises as he failed to fulfil even the promises he had made while [...]
Having braved the hot summer, faced both bouquets and brickbats during the gruelling election campaign, the who’s who of State politics are now looking forward to a hard-earned break not only to beat the heat but also to escape the tension and anxiety over the poll prospects.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to fly [...]
Offices of all political parties in the temple town as well as other places in the district wore a deserted look today with leaders and activists taking the much-deserved break after 60 days of intense campaigning and election work.
In the Lok Satta party office, party workers were busy checking their accounts and analysing performance in [...]
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.
