It's quite ironical that KCR has preferred to ignore students, youth and unemployed, who spearheaded Telangana statehood agitation, sacrificed their career and lives, faced police lathis and cases for the cause of achieving statehood for Telangana.
Amid a high-octane campaign in Telangana for December 7 polls, Congress candidate from Kodangal and party’s working president from Telangana, Revanth Reddy, was detained and taken into preventive custody earlier on Tuesday.
MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was behind the police attack on him in 1999 as he was to campaign for the Congress party.
The various pre-poll surveys that are being churned out by various agencies and individuals over the outcome of assembly elections in Telangana are creating a confusion of sorts in the people.
During the ongoing elections to Telangana assembly, Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders have been alleging that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is controlling the Maha Kootami and the Congress party is taking directions from him on every issue.
The ongoing assembly elections in Telangana are throwing up some interesting and peculiar situations.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who has been maintaining a dignified silence over actor-turned-Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan all these days despite provocation from the latter, lambasted him finally on Monday.
When a restaurant worker J Srinivas Rao made an attempt on the life of YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy by stabbing him on his arm with a sharp knife at Visakhapatnam airport on October 25, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu tried to wash off his hands saying his government had nothing to do with the incident.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which has been getting some negative reports over its prospects in the Friday’s assembly elections in the state, is said to be banking heavily on exploiting Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s campaign in Telangana, rather than propagating its own manifesto.
From farm loan waiver up to Rs 2 lakh to unemployment allowance and from doubling security pensions to free cows, laptops and bicycles, major political parties in debt-ridden Telangana are promising the moon to the voters.
YSR Congress party president and leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh has been toiling day and night by undertaking padayatra for over a year, but his media house Sakshi, which is supposed to be the backbone of his campaign, seems to be in a chaotic state without any proper control.
It is not the much-talked about 24x7 power supply, Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bheema, Kaleswaram project or any other scheme that would fetch votes for TRS in the Assembly elections but the tried–and-trusted ‘anti-Andhra’ rhetoric or in other words, the "Telangana sentiment" that might be instrumental in TRS victory in the coming election.
The ongoing elections to Telangana assembly have created tense moments to all political parties in the state, as it has become extremely difficult for them to read the pulse of the voters.
Ahead of his visit to Telangana, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that the state was born out of "idealism", but in the last four years the "arrogance and corruption" of the BJP and ruling TRS has made the people "cynical".
Political circles are abuzz with discussion on how TRS is damaging its chances in Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana by repeatedly referring to Seemandhras as "settlers", "Andhrollu" and "Seemandhrulu" in their election speeches.
