Month: June 2012

TDP has said that it would continue its fight until the government withdrew its new excise policy and ran the liquor shops itself.

Party’s senior leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao said in a statement here on Wednesday that the government which boasted of bringing a never heard off excise policy and eliminating liquor syndicates, has introduced a policy which was nothing but old wine in new bottle. Having appointed a cabinet sub-committee and after organizing several meetings, the policy that was ushered in, would no way be able to bring any control, he added.

The State Government on Wednesday accorded permission for setting up of 25 major industries with Rs 40,400 crore investments.

The Chief Minister has conducted a high level meeting of Andhra Pradesh State Council for investments and industrial promotion in Secretariat here.

Former chief minister late Dr YSR’s brother and former minister YS Vivekananda Reddy has faced embarrassing moments at the Chanchalguda jail here.

On Wednesday, Vivekananda Reddy went to Chanchalguda jail to meet his brother’s son and YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was in the jail in the ill-gotten money case. The jail officials have refused to permit him for ‘Mulaqath’ with Jagan.

Andhra Pradesh Dalith Mahasabha has demanded the State Government to arrest the PCC Chief Botcha Sathyanarayana’s close relative Botcha Vasudeva Naidu, who, they alleged, had played a key role in the Laxmipet carnage.

CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana has said that his party will not support anybody in the Presidential elections.

Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, Narayana has alleged that the State Government was transferring the sincere officers to protect the Ministers who were involved in liquor mafia.

He demanded the Tamilnadu Governor K Rosaiah to face the inquiry by tendering resignation to his position. It may be mentioned Rosaiah has received High Court summons with regard to Ameerpet lands allotment issue. (NSS)

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Mukul Wasnik has urged the Andhra Pradesh government to set up exclusive special courts to reduce the pending cases pertaining to atrocities against SC & STs.

Addressing a press conference after reviewing the implementation of the Protection of Civil Rights Act,1955 and the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)

Andhra Rashtra Praja Samithi, a registered political party, has decided to contest in the next local body and Assembly elections in Telangana region.

Announcing this at a media conference here, the samithi founder president Pellakuru Surendra Reddy said that the main goal of his party was bifurcation of the state in an amicable manner. Though the state was divided, the people of Telangana and Seemandhra should live like brothers. The party was also working to safeguard the Semaandhra people who were living in the city with insecurity feeling, he added.

Laxmipet Dalit Porata Sangeebhava Committee, formed by 50 peoples’ organizations to consolidate the agitation of victims of Laxmipet agitation, has decided to hold protest dharnas at all the District Collectorates on July 4, demanding arrest of the main accused in the case.

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu has condemned the murder of his party worker Nandarapu Ramanna (40) in Taalla Ookallu village under Maripeda mandal of Warangal district.

In a statement here on Wednesday, he has charged the Congress of murdering his party man and said Congress was resorting to the heinous culture of murder politics whenever it came to power. He said it was atrocious that Congress, which could not face its opponents, was trying to eliminate them.

Finding fault with the State Government for challenging the CAT’s judgment in the High Court with regard to the DGP Dinesh Reddy’s appointment, former minister Dr P Shanker Rao has said that the principal secretary P Goutham Kumar’s decision of voluntary retirement was quite painful.

Former Congress minister J C Diwakar Reddy on Wednesday claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has assured him that she would resolve the controversial Telangana statehood issue soon.

Talking to media persons after emerging out of meeting with Sonia Gandhi at her residence at 10 Janpath here, Diwakar Reddy said that Sonia Gandhi responded positively to his appeal to resolve the Telangana issue to put an end to uncertainty in the State. To protect the party’s prospects, he said that he has appealed to Sonia Gandhi to solve the

INN): In a setback to suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, who was arrested in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation’s illegal mining scam, the High Court on Wednesday refused to grant her bail.

After hearing the arguments and counter arguments, the court rejected the bail petition of Srilakshmi. The CBI counsel argued that she might tamper with evidence and influence the witnesses if she was granted bail. Stating that her presence was still necessary for the investigation agency, the counsel appealed to court not to grant bail to Srilakshmi.

Eminent jurist Ram Jethmalani has argued that the arrest of the YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was illegal.The bail petition of Jagan has come up for hearing in the high court on Wednesday.

After initialarguments, the further hearing of the case was posted to Thursday.
Arguing the case on behalf of Jagan, Ram Jethmalani has said that arrest of Jagan when he was campaigning for his party was against the constitution.

Dubbing the State Government’s new liquor policy as a ‘4-Point Formula’-producing more liquor, make the people to drink more, earn more revenue and make the people ill and join hospitals in a big way, TDP Women’s Wing Chief Shoba Hymavathi has said that the lathi-charge on the women agitators, who were protesting against the State Government’s liquor police, with male police shows that there was no security to the women in the State.