AP Formation Day Under Heavy Police Bandobust

The state of Andhra Pradesh is celebrating its 56th formation day on Tuesday - 01-November 2011. The official celebrations of formation day will take place at NTR Stadium in Hyderabad from 9 AM to 10.40 AM. The chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will hoist the national flag and start the celebrations at the stadium in the morning. Anticipating trouble from Telangana activists, police have made elaborate arrangements at the venue.

In view of the prevailing situation, Hyderabad police commissioner A K Khan on Monday visited NTR stadium to personally supervise the arrangements. Traffic diversions have been announced on all roads leading to the venue. Talking to the media, Khan said prohibitory orders were in place in the city and stringent action would be initiated against anybody trying to disrupt the event. "As part of the security arrangements, we will be deploying 1,500 police personnel, including paramilitary forces, in and around the venue," Khan added.

The reason for the high alert was partly due to the protest call given by Telangana Rashtra Samithi Vidyarthi Vibhagam ( TRSVV) activists. The activists asked all educational institutions to hoist black flags and also announced to take out a rally from OU Arts College to the Martyrs Memorial. Police have devised a three-layer bandobust strategy to stop agitators from entering the venue. Police personnel would be present inside the stadium at all possible entry points and all roads leading to the venue. Traffic has been diverted in all the routes leading to NTR stadium.

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.