Ministers Clamour to Get GOs Scrapped

With the Brahmani Steels GO scrapped, five other ministers connected to some of the 26 controversial GOs are hopeful that they too will get relief if the government chooses also to cancel the other GOs. The scrapping the GO pertaining to Brahmani Steels belonging to Gali Janardhan Reddy came as a great relief to then Industries Minister Geeta reddy. The other ministers too said have asked the chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to cancel the other GOs too.

The government had recently issued orders scrapping GO No. 477 pertaining to Brahmani Steels, one of the controversial ones listed by advocate P. Sudhakar Reddy in his SLP in the Supreme Court. The ministers are in a quandary as the CBI in its affidavit in the SC has stated that it has to probe the ministers' roles in clearing some of the GOs. Sources said that a minister had even visited New Delhi to lobby for help from key members of the Congress. The then mines minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who handled the irrigation portfolio, and the then revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, have asked the state to cancel the GOs they issued, if any irregularities were found in them.

According to sources, the CM, was however confident that no more arrests would take place and told them that these decisions were taken in Delhi. The sources said that the direction to cancel the Brahmani Steels GO had come from the Centre. In its affidavit filed in the SC, the CBI has already cleared four government orders including those approved by the then ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana and Koneru Ranga Rao.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.