Public Will Decide TRS, Congress Merger: KCR

After stirring a hornet's nest with his reported comments on a possible TRS-Congress merger recently, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao said that the four crore people of Telangana region would decide the party's fate.

KCR said that if Sonia Gandhi indeed wants his party to merge with Congress for granting separate Telangana state, he wouldn't mind giving it a serious thought. "But it won't be a party decision. I would leave the decision in the people's court," he said while addressing a public meeting here on Wednesday night. The party had not received any merger proposal from the Congress high command, he added.

The TRS chief said the Nizamsagar was going dry as it was linked to Singur reservoir to divert the Manjeera water to Hyderabad. "We will ensure Manjeera water for Nizamabad and Medak districts alone," he said.

He informed the public that T-News channel will roll out on March 29. "Telugu daily Namaste Telangana would roll out by April last and in June we will have a Urdu newspaper catering to T-region," he said.

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.