SAIL Proposes to Replace Gali's Brahmani Steels

The Public sector company, Steel Authority of India Ltd., (SAIL) has come forward to set up an integrated steel project in place of Brahmani Steels promoted by former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy, who is currently in jail facing CBI charges for illegal mining activities.

During the tenure of late YS Rajasekhar Reddy as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Bhramani Steels had proposed to develop a 2.5-million tonne, Rs 4,430-crore steel plant at Kadapa, the native district of YSR. In 2007, it was allotted iron ore mines and 14,700 acres for the project. However, at a later date, the state government served show-cause notices on Brahmani for inordinate delays in executing the project.

SAIL chairman and managing director Chandra Shekher Verma told over phone from Russia, where he is accompanying steel minister Beni Prasad Verma and a team comprising chiefs of state-owned steel firms, that "SAIL had conveyed its interest to the principal secretary of government of AP. The size of plant and investment would depend upon feasibility study." T S Appa Rao, principal secretary, industries and commerce also confirmed the same saying "SAIL has approached us to set up an integrated steel project in place of Brahmani Steels. They have sought land and iron ore mines to take up the project. We are examining the proposal."

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.