Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed his shock and grief over the demise of Union Minister Mr.Vilas Rao Deshmukh.
In a special message to Ritesh Deshmukh, son of Mr. Vilas Rao Deshmukh, the Chief Minister said that the death of Vilas Rao Deshmuk was a great loss to the Maharashtra, the Congress party in general and the Union government. He that said in the death of Mr Deshmukh, he lost a “a very good friend”.
Former minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Tuesday referred to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar as a bad ‘captain’ whose team members are falling apart, one by one.
Talking to reporters in the Legislative Assembly premises, Dr Shankar Rao said that the Chief Minister was proving to be a very bad captain. “One wicket was already down and another has just fallen,” he said while referring to the arrest of former Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana and now the naming of Roads and Buildings Minister B Dharmana Prasad Rao as the accused in Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy’s assets case.
Expressing concern over the deteriorating financial position of the Indian Railway, All India Railwaymen’s Federation General Secretary Shiv Gopal Misra today demanded a bailout package of Rs 50,000 crore for the railways every year to come out from the crisis. Talking to newsmen here, he said if the deterioration of the financial position continued, the railways, after few months, would be in a position to unable to pay salaries to its employees.
Village Revenue Assistants under the aegis of their district association staged dharna in large numbers at the Collectorate here today in support of their demands.
They raised slogans demanding implementation of the agreement arrived at during the regime of late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and introduction of pension and other benefits according recognition as class four employees.
Union honorary president Duvva Seshu Babji, working president Chinni Apparao later called on the district Collector Neethu Kumary in a delegation and presented a memorandum listing out their demands charter. UNI
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Stamps and Registrations Thota Narasimham today said that state government has earmarked Rs 500 crore this year under farm mechanisation to supply modern agricultural implements to the farmers on 50 per cent subsidy enabling them to achieve optimum production with less investment adopting latest package of practices.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy inaugurated the headquarters of Octopus, formed on the lines of National Security Guard (NSG) to counter terrorist attacks.
The force will comprise 250 commandos, who will be deployed in key cities of the state. About 100 personnel would deal with any threat to the famous temple in Tirupati.
Built at the cost of Rs.5 crore in Begupmet area here, the Octopus headquarters is equipped with the state-of-the-art conference hall and the communication networking.
Five persons were killed on the spot and as many injured when the autorickshaw in which they were travelling from Chollangi to Kothur collided with a tipper coming from Yanam to Kakinada on the national highway, 25 km from from here, today.
Kakinada Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sai Sri who rushed to the spot told UNI that all the victims were fishermen from neighbouring villages.
Ten persons were killed and 25 others injured in two separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh today. Police said five persons were killed on the spot and equal number were injured when the autorickshaw in which they were travelling from Chollangi to Kothur collided with a tipper coming from Yanam to Kakinada on the national highway.
Kakinada Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sai Sri who rushed to the spot told UNI that all the victims were fishermen from neighbouring villages.
Additional Joint Collector B Ramarao has warned the officials of the agricultural department of stringent action, if they showed negligence in sanctioning loans to the eligible tenant farmers. Talking to media persons here today, he said strict warning was issued to all the assistant directors of agriculture department during the wireless set conference that all the tenant farmers who received loans last year should be renewed and get fresh loans sanctioned by the concerned banks this year also.
Assam Relief Co-Ordination Committee has demanded that the Union government order a CBI inquiry into Assam riots. Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, Committee organizer Mohd Shahnawaz Khan demanded that the Centre arrest culprits behind the riots and dispense justice to the riot victims.
He also urged the Centre to release adequate funds for rehabilitation and set up more medical camps to provide medical assistance to the victims.
Government Whip in the Assembly and Sangareddy MLA Toorpu Jayaprakash Reddy aka Jagga Reddy has alleged that Union Petroleum Minister S. Jaipal Reddy and Telangana senior Congress leader Dr K Keshav Rao have been hatching a conspiracy along with TRS Chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao to dethrone N. Kiran Kumar Reddy from the chief minister post.
Speaking to the media at the CLP Office here on Sunday, Jagga Reddy said that Jaipal Reddy was eyeing the chief minister’s post. Kiran Kumar Reddy was working for 18 hours a day for welfare of the people, he added.
The Andhra Pradesh Government on Sunday proposed to set up a high-end Research and Development Park in Electronic Manufacturing in Hyderabad in line with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan.
The proposal was made by Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah during his interaction with Union IT and HRD Minister Kapil Sibbal and Dr Kumar Mangalam Birla at the sidelines of the first convocation of BITS Pilani in the city. Ponnala suggested that India was in dire need of high end electronic R&D Park such as ITRI.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Sunday demanded that the State Government hasten the process to conduct elections for the local bodies in the State.
Talking to reporters here, TRS deputy floor leader T Harish Rao said that the State has been Central funds worth several hundred crores due to the absence of elected local bodies in the State. He said despite knowing the fact that the Central funds could not be received unless elections are held, the State Government has been avoiding the elections citing one reason or the other.
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao on Sunday demanded that the State Government continue the Fee Reimbursement scheme without any modifications.
Talking to reporters here, Hanumantha Rao said that it would be wrong on the part of the State Government to say that it would only reimburse only Rs 31,000. Further, the advise being given to the students to take the remaining fee amount as loan from the banks was not practical as the banks does not give loans to the poor students, he said.
TRS senior leader T Harish Rao has said that the people of the Telangana region got separated from the Seemandhra people mentally.
Speaking at Telangana Lab Technicians Association launching meeting at Telangana Bhavan here on Saturday, Harish Rao said that the Telugu people would remain united only after division of the State. He advised the integrationists to think in that direction and support division of the State wholeheartedly. Otherwise, the agitation for separate State would go on, he warned.
TDP Rajya Sabha member T Devender Goud has said that Congress leaders were plundering the exchequer in the name of Jala Yagnam.
Devender Goud, MLA Ramulu and other TDP leaders visited the Elluru (Near Kollapur)lift irrigation works under the Kalwakurti project in the district on Saturday.
Speaking to the media on the occasion, Goud said that right from late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to the present incumbent Kiran Kumar Reddy, every one was plundering the State in the name of projects.
Confederation of Voluntary Associations (COVA), a social organization, has strongly and unequivocally condemned the attack on media in Mumbai by a section of people gathered at the Azad Maidan to protest the violence in Assam and Burma. Using violence in a protest against violence is an insult to the suffering victims in whose support the protest was purportedly organized.
Ridiculing TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu’s campaign against VANCPIC project, the YSR Congress party has demanded the leader of opposition to be categorical on his Party’s industrial policy and apply the same yardstick to every allotment made to industrial houses since 1995.
Communist Party of India State Secretary K Narayana on Saturday asked Labour Minister D Nagender to clarify whether ‘he was a minister or a rowdy?
Talking to reporters at Makhdoom Bhavan, Narayana condemned the behaviour of Nagender over the issue of ISKCON temple at Banjara Hills and said that such an attitude does not suit a cabinet minister. Demanding that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy take action against all the tainted ministers and those facing criminal cases, he demanded that Nagender be removed from the cabinet.
Congress party’s Whip in Legislative Council R Padma Raju assured that government would take all the necessary steps to ensure that the students continue their studies without any apprehensions about fee reimbursement scheme.
BJP state president Kishan Reddy has alleged that labour minister Danam Nagender was acting like a rowdy and raiding temples.
Talking to the media here on Friday, he said the Governor should take action against the minister for raiding a temple and locking up its gates. He said it was strange that Danam was stating that he had locked the temple to save Congress workers. Questioning how a minister could indulge in rowdyism, he said Danam who said anti-social activities were occurring in the temple should say what they were.
–Agencies
The last date for receipt of applications for the Journalists’ Medi-Claim policy has been extended to August 14.
This was stated in a press note here today by Khaleel Quadri, President and T Koti Reddy, Secretary, Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ).
Journalists who wants to get their policies renewed and those who want to apply afresh should send their application along with two photographs of each member of the family, and Bank DD for Rs.900 in favour of Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, and send it to the Union office, Deshoddharaka Bhavan. Bahseerbagh.
–Agencies
TDP senior leader and former Mayor of Hyderabad Teegala Krishna Reddy has demanded the arrest of labour minister Danam Nagender for locking the Lakshmi Narasimha temple in Banjara Hills, which has a history of 70 years.
The Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has said that he has already written four letters to the central government for allocation of gas to the Nedanuru and Sankarapalli plants of Telangana and commented that the Telangana friends might not be knowing it.
The Chief Minister was addressing a review meeting in Khammam as part of his Indiramma Baata to the district. Speaking on the occasion, he said all regions were equal to him. He has been continuing to exert pressure on the central government for provision of gas to both the Seemandhra and Telangana projects
Minister Parthasarathy appears to be heading for fresh trouble as the revenue authorities had found that he had not mentioned about the FERA case pending against him in the affidavit he had filed during the 2009 election.