Hyderabad: Political parties in the state are waiting with interest to know what the two leaders, who have different political hues but are close friends, will do to clear the clouds of political uncertainty in the state. The buddies are AICC general secretary and Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. The TRS chief is building pressure on the Centre by camping in...
01:19 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Taking a dig at UPA chairperson and AICC president Sonia Gandhi, BJP senior leader LK Advani on Wednesday said that Sonia had made an empty promise for people of Telangana on granting statehood to their region. Sonia had promised a separate state for Telangana people during 2004 polls. Later, she forgot about her promise. Though Telangana people are agitating in a big way for the implementation of that promise,...
01:00 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The demand for separate statehood to Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh is picking up momentum with the BJP's fast in the national capital on Wednesday and a committee setting a Sep 29 deadline for the UPA government to initiate the process for the same. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC), which comprises Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP and other pro-Telangana groups, set Sep 29 as the deadline for...
05:22 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao on Wednesday exuded confidence that the Telangana issue would be solved this month. "The Telangana issue will definitely be solved this month. There is no doubt about it," he remarked, before leaving for New Delhi along with other leaders amid intensified efforts in the national capital to seek immediate steps for the formation of a separate Telangana state. KCR, as the...
05:05 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday promised to form a separate state of Telangana within three months if it formed a central government. BJP's Sushma Swaraj gave this assurance to a group of party activists from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh who were on a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar here. Sushma Swaraj, who went to the protest venue after parliament was adjourned till 12 noon,...
01:42 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Ministers hailing from Telangana have decided to undertake a visit to Delhi along with all the ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs from the region soon after the return of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from abroad in order to exert pressure on the high command for a speedy decision on state's bifurcation. K Jana Reddy, J Geeta Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and B Saraiah, who met at the residence of Jana...
01:03 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Hyderabad: The TRS leadership is confident that the Centre will make an announcement on Telangana in the next 15 days. Party chief K Chandrasekhara Rao's supporters claim that the Congress leadership has dropped subtle hints to him to this effect. But the TDP is very sceptical about the Congress making any statement on state's bifurcation. It is under the impression that the Congress will raise the curtain on another round...
10:43 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, BJP would hold a three-day agitation in Delhi from Monday in support of separate Telangana state. State BJP leaders and activists would stage a hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. The aim was to put pressure on the UPA government at the Centre which failed to form the separate state as per its promise, state BJP president G Kishan...
02:58 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, the BJP would hold a three-day agitation in Delhi from Monday in support of separate Telangana state. State BJP leaders and activists would stage a hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. The aim was to put pressure on the UPA government at the Centre, which failed to form the separate state as per its promise, state BJP president G...
09:43 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Hyderabad: A Rayalaseema people's conclave, organised by the Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samiti here on Sunday, demanded trifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into three states - Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema - in case the central government decided to carve out Telangana state. The day-long meeting, attended by Rayalaseema settlers in Hyderabad, vowed to achieve Rayalaseema state and formed a Rayalaseema joint action committee (RJAC), on the lines of the Telangana JAC, to spearhead...
01:07 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader and Sircilla legislator KT Rama Rao has expressed hope that Telangana will become a reality before the 2014 general election. "I do not want to approach elections with Telangana as the agenda," he told a gathering of public prosecutors here on Sunday. He said it was unfortunate that a raw deal was being meted out to the Telangana region in all aspects. For instance, of...
10:19 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Kondruprolu (Andhra Pradesh): The union government must take a call soon on the issue of statehood for the Telangana region, says Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy as concerns mount in the Congress about the future of the party in the volatile region. "I am requesting them (central government) that it (Telangana issue) should be decided soon. The central government has to decide on it and we will...
10:32 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Hyderabad: As part of the BJP's efforts to consolidate its position in Telangana, the party state unit president G Kishen Reddy plans to hold a satyagraha at Jantar Mantar in Delhi from September 3 demanding that the Centre carve out a separate state soon. Simultaneous protest programmes will be organised by the party functionaries across Telangana. Reddy said on Saturday that the real intentions of the Congress on the Telangana...
10:33 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Hyderabad: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao would be holding a three-day meeting with party MLAs and other leaders later in August to chalk out a strategy on the Telangana issue. Rao would organise a joint meeting of party's polit bureau, MLAs, district unit presidents and other party functionaries on August 24, 25 and 26, the party said in a release in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The TRS chief has been maintaining...
08:10 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Telangana MPs in the Congress have received enough indications that the Congress high command will take a favourable decision on the separate Telangana issue soon, Siricilla Rajaiah, MP from Warangal, has said. Talking to reporters at the CLP office here on Thursday, he said that when Congress MPs from the Telangana region had met AICC general secretary in charge of state party affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi...
12:35 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Hyderabad: The September 30 Telangana March called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) may not get full throttle support from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), what with the differences between TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao and TJAC chairman Prof M Kodandaram reaching a flash point. TRS leader B Vinod, while referring to the Telangana March, said on Wednesday that TJAC and TRS were two different entities and therefore the...
10:41 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Nizamabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao has given an ultimatum to the central government to declare separate Telangana after vice-presidential elections or be ready to face chaos in the state. Rao unveiled the statue of Telangana ideologue Prof. K Jayashankar at Kanteshwar in Nizamabad town on Sunday. The programme was held under the aegis of Telangana Jagruthi. Addressing the gathering, the TRS chief urged people to draw...
12:20 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party general secretary and founder of the Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samiti Byreddi Rajasekhara Reddy reiterated that Rayalaseema too should be formed if the Centre decides to carve out Telangana from the state. Addressing mediapersons here on Wednesday, he demanded that all political parties should spell out their stand on Rayalaseema. He said political parties should make it a point if they write to the Centre seeking formation of...
12:54 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Department of Culture started a project to fish out parts of the 12 bronze statues vandalised and dumped into the Hussain Sagar at Tank Bund during Million March programme in March 2010 by pro-Telangana activists. After 28 months of the incident, the government wrote a letter to Indian Navy asking for its assistance in the project. We have also got the reply from Navy. They will start the...
01:40 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader and former minister Gade Venkata Reddy from coastal Andhra has thrown his weight behind TDP MLA from Rayalaseema Baireddy Rajasekhara Reddy who created a furore on Saturday by demanding a separate Rayalaseema state in the event of the Centre deciding to carve out Telangana state. Venkata Reddy said there was nothing wrong with the Baireddys remarks as he fully backed the demand for keeping the state...
12:58 PM, Jul 30, 2012
