Karimnagar: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao accused the government of neglecting Telangana temples. Speaking to mediapersons in Karimnagar on Monday after offering prayers at the Rajarajeshwara Swamy temple, he demanded the government to acquire 100 acres for the development of Vemulawada temple town. Stating that Rajarajeshwara Swamy temple has a historical background, the TRS supremo said that he prayed the presiding deity to help create separate Telangana...
07:01 AM, Feb 22, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti has promised 12 per cent reservation to Lambadas and other Scheduled Tribes in education and employment, and upgradation of all Tandas as gram panchayats if a separate Telangana state is formed.Speaking at a meeting organised to celebrate the birth anniversary of Sevalal Maharaj, Lambadas spiritual guru, at Telangana Bhavan here on Saturday, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao attacked all political parties in his inimitable style...
09:04 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Hailing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for pushing through a resolution in the Assembly on splitting the state, the TRS on Monday demanded that the Centre give its assent to it and also carve out a separate Telangana state. "TRS welcomes the decision of the UP Chief Minister. It is a bold step. It is very good for democracy. She has also reiterated her support to the formation of...
09:31 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Hyderabad: Hailing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for pushing through a resolution in the Assembly on splitting the state, TRS on Monday demanded that the Centre give its assent to it and also carve out a separate Telangana state. "TRS welcomes the decision of the UP Chief Minister. It is a bold step. It is very good for democracy. She has also reiterated her support to the formation of Telangana....
05:06 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) office has become the latest venue for trading of charges between the party Telangana legislators aligned for and against chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Departing from the party conventions, perhaps for the first time, a group of Telangana MLAs openly criticised the chief ministers handling of the Telangana movement and the attitude of some T legislators backing him at the CLP office. The section...
02:43 AM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Congress Core Committee will meet on Tuesday to finalise its position on the demand for a seperate Telangana state. TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao and Congress MPs from Telangana are expected to arrive in New Delhi. This after Telangana Congress MPs said that they will intensify their agitation and even ministers from Andhra Pradesh warned the central leadership of worse times ahead. Senior Congress leader Pallam Raju...
09:55 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Friday postponed the 'Rail-roko' agitation, earlier scheduled for October 9 to 11, to October 12, 13 and 14. "The Rail-roko will be now held on October 12, 13 and 14," JAC Convener M Kodandaram told reporters, after a meeting of the JAC leaders including TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. The decision was taken as some other programmes had been planned during...
09:06 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: To press their demand for separate Telangana state, Andhra Pradesh Congress MPs from the region on Monday reached the Prime Minister's residence at the national capital to meet Manmohan Singh. Party leaders from Telangana region are camping in Delhi for the last few days to press for the demand of separate statehood. Congress is caught in a tricky situation in Andhra Pradesh with Telangana region observing an indefinite...
12:50 PM, Oct 03, 2011
On day 18 of the Telangana agitation, Congress MLAs and MPs continue to demand that their party takes a clear position on a separate state. ...
11:08 AM, Sep 30, 2011
Hyderabad: The pro-Telangana agitation should be continued with full steam to make the Centre accept the separate statehood demand in a few months from now, TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Thursday. "Unity is our strength. We will definitely achieve Telangana. Delhi must climb down and give Telangana in a month or two," he asserted. The former Union Minister was speaking after TDP MLA Gampa Govardhan quit the party...
06:52 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Hyderabad: Alleging corruption in the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, TRS on Wednesday demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government hold an open debate on the project report. "This project appears to be more a real estate project than a rail project aimed at grabbing almost 300 acres of prime lands worth thousands of crores of rupees. We also have serious reservations on certain provisions of the Concession Agreement signed by the...
10:44 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Indicating that the UPA government is in no hurry to take a final call on separate Telangana, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday that the consultation process was continuing with political parties and it can take a "few weeks, it may take a couple of months and it may take three months," to decide on the issue. He asked the four parties TDP, YSR Congress, Congress...
09:06 AM, Aug 06, 2011
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has given a call for launch of a three-day blockade of the highways in the Telangana region, on the lines of the 90-day blockade enforced in the north-eastern state of Manipur, to increase the pressure on the Central government. Addressing the general body of Telangana Rashtra Samiti Vidyarthi (TRSV) at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday, he said he wanted a serious...
08:23 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana movement on Tuesday gathered further steam with TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao and party MP Vijay Shanthi resigning from their Lok Sabha membership in support of the demand for a separate state. Chadrasekhar Rao and Shanthi faxed their resignation letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker. Rao would meet the Speaker personally in a day or two, TRS sources said. State Textiles Minister Shankar Rao, who is in...
10:02 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Hyderabad: Stepping up pressure on the UPA Government, pro-Telangana supporters on Sunday undertook a novel protest by organising collective cooking programmes at key traffic junctions here and threatened to intensify the stir if their demand is not met. "It is a practice to conduct collective cooking and community lunches in open areas in Telangana during the monsoon. We have converted this into a form of protest to express our demand...
01:18 PM, Jun 19, 2011
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