Jagan Lotus Pond House: GHMC Norms Skirted

A senior official at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is said to have cleared the revised plan for the sprawling Lotus Pond residence of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, all by himself, bypassing the mandatory step of referring the matter to the Building Committee.

With the matter coming to light, the official and some other staffers are likely to come under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the alleged illegal assets of the young MP. The agency continued with the evaluation of Jagan's Lotus Pond residence to assess its value for the seventh day Thursday.

Government sources told that while the original permission for all the offices and residences of Jagan Mohan Reddy was cleared by the Building committee, the revised plan submitted later for the Lotus Pond residence was reportedly not referred to the committee. Though it is not clear why the official chose to clear the revised plan all by himself, the officials is, incidentally, close to the late YSR family. Sources said the CBI is looking into this aspect and will go through the original plan and the revised plan to see the changes that were carried out.
 

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.