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Tummala gets R&B, Talasani Tourism

  Telangana Chief Minister KCR, who until now kept Energy portfolio with him, has allotted it to Lakshma Reddy. As against predictions, he allots Industries portfolio to Jupally Krishna rao instead of allotting the same to Tummala Nageswara rao. However, Tummala also gets an important portfolio of Roads and Buildings. But, Talasani Srinivas Yadav has to settle with Tourism. Indrakaran Reddy gets Housing and Chandulal gets Social welfare portfolio.   The disgruntled Koppula Eeshwar and Konda Surekha both skipped their oath taking function conducted at Rajbhavan today morning. K Taraka Ramarao was also unable to attend the function, as he returned from Dubai hours before the function. Media brushed it as raising banner against Dad. A section of media reports that he is unhappy with the allocations.

Qatar to invest in India for Smart Cities Development

  Sheikh Hamad Bin Nasser Al-Thani of the Qatar Royalty is also Chairman of the Future Pipe Industries and is the Deputy Chairman of Dalah Brokerage & Investment Holding Co. He is ready to invest $30 billion to develop 10 smart cities across India. His group of companies that runs under the flagship of Hamaad is also keen to invest on the power generation, education, solar, health care, infrastructure sectors etc. in India.   The Delhi based Indian partner Mitesh, the Managing Director of Al Natroon Trading & Contracting Company, Qatar has had meetings with Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav during third week of November. His company has signed a MoU with the AP government on behalf of the Hamad group to invest $3 billion dollars to develop smart city in the AP state.

ED delivers a deadly blow to Jagan?

  Enforcement Directorate has been attaching properties worth hundreds of crores of Jagan Mohan Reddy and his associates during last one and half years. However, it has never laid its hands on his Sakshi media or its properties. But, for the first time, ED has attached the buildings of his Sakshi media in Kareem Nagar, Nalgonda and Mehboob Nagar in Telangana state, Kurnool, Nellore, Prakasham, Chittoor and one in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh state yesterday.   Probably, this may badly affect Sakshi publications. To be frank, Jagan’s idea of launching Sakshi print and electronic media proved a very wise. It is his Sakshi media through which he is able to defend himself from his rival party’s attacks and vent his anger on them. It proved to be a very power weapon for him. In case if it is not there, probably Jagan Mohan Reddy may not get this much of limelight at all. Even, he may not be able to convey his party ideology to the people, especially to die-hard followers of his party.   Perhaps, he may afford to loose few hundreds of crores but can’t afford to have a scratch on his media. The ED has not just scratched his media but virtually digs a big pit by attaching more than half a dozen buildings and some printing machinery of his Sakshi media yesterday. So, it would be a deadly blow for him. Apart from disruption in its publications, he may feel quite embarrassed to face his rival political parties and the media as well.

Talasani Yadav quits MLA Post to escape disqualification

  Former TDP leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav, who is joining CM KCR’s cabinet as a minister today has resigned to his MLA post to escape from disqualification threat. He may escapes from the threat but he has to be re-elected to the Assembly within six months after assuming his minister post. Tummala Nageswara rao is also having same back ground and situation. Yadav can contest for his own seat vacated by him now, but KCR has to find a seat for Tummala to enable him continue as minister. Hence, he has to ask someone of his party to vacate his seat for Tummala. TRS leaders are fuming upon CM KCR for giving preference to the new comers while ignoring them. So, they may burst upon him if he insists anyone to vacate their seat for Tummala. But, CM KCR also have no other option except to force someone to vacate his/her seat for Tummala.

ED attaches Rs.47 crores of Jagan’s Companies

  According to PTI reports, Enforcement Directorate has attached properties worth Rs. 47 crores of Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Jagati, Janani and Indira Telivision companies in connection with Penna Cements case.This time, ED also attaches the buildings in Kareem Nagar, Nalgonda, Mehboob Nagar, Kurnool, Nellore, Prakasham, Chittoor and one in Krishna district from where Sakshi newspaper has been publishing. Besides these, properties worth Rs.16.56 crores of Janani Infra company, Rs. 24.85 crores worth properties of Indira Television, Rs. 5.59 crores worth machinery of Jagathi Publications were also attached.    Jagan Mohan Reddy is arguing that all these cases filed against him and his companies by CBI and ED are political motivated. He argues that previous Congress led UPA government has ushered the CBI and ED against him with political intentions.   However, he was able to secure bail well ahead of the general elections and also won very fair number of seats, but the Congress party fails to win not even a single seat in the state Assembly. It is to be noted that now the Congress party is not in power either in the state or at Centre, yet the ED and CBI are handling his cases as usually. If so, he has to blame the NDA government for it now, otherwise he has to admit that both those agencies are doing their job without any political influence.

No room for Koppula in KCR’s cabinet?

  Telangana Chief Minister KCR is all set to expand his cabinet tomorrow morning. Hence he is reportedly finalized the names of Tummala Nageswara rao, Talasani Yadav, Chandulal, Indrakaran Reddy, Jupalle Krishna rao and Lakshma Reddy. CM KCR has sent the list of their names to Governor Narasimhan a short while ago. So, Koppula Eeshawar a close aide and the most trusted leader of CM KCR couldn’t secure a minister post this time also, whereas he has expected Deputy Chief Minister Post.   Out of the six persons picked by the CM KCR, two hails from TDP and two from the Congress and one from BSP. Lakshma Reddy alone is in TRS from the beginning. Out of the two from TDP, Tummala Nageswara rao is not an elected MLA and Talasani is facing the threat of disqualification for violating the party whip and for joining TRS party.   So, Tummala has to be elected to the Assembly within six months to continue in his minister post. There is possibility of constitutional crisis if Talasani Yadav faces disqualification. Jupalle and Indra Karan Reddy are former Congress leaders. But, Indrakaran jumps into BSP and got elected to the Assembly. Later he joins TRS party and getting minister post in CM KCR’s cabinet tomorrow.   Obviously, KCR’s choice may irk the TRS leaders, especially those who are associated with him during agitations period and expecting minister posts in his cabinet. Koppula Eeshwar and his followers are fuming upon CM KCR.

MPs of AP and TS reluctant to adopt villages

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to all MPs to adopt a village of their choice in their respective constituencies or states. There is overwhelming response to his call from the MPs of north India cutting across the party lines, but there is lukewarm response from southern part, (except Kerala) especially from AP and Telangana states.   Modi has introduced Sansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana scheme two months ago, under which all MPs have to adopt a village of their choice and develop them within three years with the MP LAD (Local Area Development) funds kept at their dispose.   However, according to the ministry of rural development records, around 30 percent of MPs of AP and 29 percent of MPs of Telangana in both houses have not identified any village to adopt till now. There are 25 MPs from AP but only 19 of them have identified their villages. Out of the 17 MPs from Telangana only 12 have identified the villages.   Rest of the MPs has their own reasons and excuses to escape from this noble program. CM Ramesh, KVP Ramachandra rao, who belong to AP, but have been elected to Rajyasabha from Telangana and the MPs K Keshav rao, MA Khan vice versa. So, they ask for excuse as they prefer to adopt a village in their own state. They wrote letters to the house committee to allow them to choose a village from their own state, but as the house committee has not taken any decision till now, they have excuse for their inability to adopt any village. T Subbirami Reddy, who always claims that he alone has developed the Vizag City has not shown any interest to adopt a village till now.   MP K Chiranjeevi has adopted his native Mogalturu, M Venkaiah Naidu- Chepaluppada (Vizag), Nirmala Seetharaman-Narsapuram, Sachin Tendulkar- P. Kandriga, Kesineni Srinivas-Gollamandala, Thota Seetharamalakshmi-Akividu and YS Chowdary has adopted Veerullapadu village.

AP to set-up its own Data Center

  The AP government is planning to set-up its own data center in the state to cater the needs of the state post bifurcation. Currently, it is using the services of the common data center located in the Hyderabad city. So, it constituted a nodal agency called e-Governance Authority for this purpose and entrusted the task to it. The nodal agency has 11 members including the IT minister and the IT advisor. The Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who heads this agency, insists to set-up a tailor-made data center to meet the growing demands of the state for the next 20 years in the state.   This data center will handle several functions like online delivery of services, citizen information portal, state intranet portal, remote management and service integration, and disaster recovery. It will also interact with the central data center of the government of India and other state governments. It will also handle all state government departments’ activities like municipal administration, registration and certificates, e-seva and transport etc. etc.   So, Chandrababu Naidu is insisting to adopt a state-of-the-art-technology using advanced computing systems for this data center. He expects the official premises of this data center is also to be designed in such a way that it can be able to withstand the earth quakes and natural disasters.

TDP MLA Venkata Ramana died

  TDP Tirupati MLA Venkata Ramana (67) died after failure of by-pass surgery conducted at Chennai Apollo Hospital yesterday evening. He was elected from Tirupati constituency in 2004 and 2014 elections.

Music Director Chakri died

  Noted Music director Chakri (40) died today morning at Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad. He died with heart attack. More details follows in next post.

Veteran actor PJ Sarma passes away

  Veteran actor PJ Sarma died with cardiac arrest today morning. Yesterday his grand-son Aadi’s marriage was performed and he died today. Pudipeddi Jogeswara Sarma popularly known as PJ Sarma to the film industry and fans was born in Vizianagaram.   He entered into film industry with film ‘Illarikam.’ He acted in more than 500 films in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. He acts in ‘Naga movie last in the year 2003. He was also very famous dubbing artist and story writer. His performance in films-‘Collector Janaki, Nyayam Kavali, Mugguru Monagallu, Karthavyam, Athanu’ earns him applauds. His son Sai Kumar is also did several Telugu films and lends his voice to many actors in Tollywood. His grand-son Aadi (Aaditya) also debuts with film-Prema Kavali in 2011. PJ Sarma’s last rituals will be performed at Erragadda burial grounds in Hyderabad on Sunday around 3pm.

No political intentions: Sharmila

  During a party meeting held a month ago, YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy has assigned his sister Sharmila the duty of strengthening his party in the Telangana state, though he appointed Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy as the party working president of the state. Hence, Sharmila begins her Paramarsha Yatra in Mehboob Nagar district four days ago and to console the family members of the persons, who died some six years ago.   She has visited bereaved family members in Narsappaguda, Mallapur of Kotthur mandal in Mehboob Nagar district on Saturday. Speaking to the media, “My visit is quite personal. It is a pure personal matter between their and our families and not any political one. So, my visit shouldn’t be seen as a politically motivated one. There are no political intentions behind my tour” said Sharmila.   During her five day tour, after reminding the people about her late father YSR’s golden era and about his welfare schemes, she criticizes the ruling TRS government very softly for neglecting the farmers’ suicides. However, she is not consoling the bereaved families of those farmers because they are not in her list.   Her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy has made it clear that he is purposely sending her into Telangana to strengthen his party and she is precisely executing the task assigned to her with her tour. Despite all this, she wants the people believe that she has no political intentions at all. If she has no political intentions at all, she would have straight away visited the families and returned home without doing all this hungama.   Her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced that he is sitting on a two-day hunger strike in Tanuku city in West Godavari in the next month, protesting the state government’s failure to implement all its elections promises including the crop loans waiver. But, his intention is to garner the farmers’ support to his party with this issue. Probably, the YSR Congress party has lost the confidence of the people because of maintaining this kind of double standards.

Finally, CM KCR expanding his cabinet

  The Telangana CM KCR has been made his party leaders anxiously wait for a longtime to hear the news about cabinet expansion. After a painful wait of six and half months, finally he decides to expand his cabinet on Tuesday. The swearing-in-ceremony of the new ministers will take place on December 16th at Rajbhavan sharply at 11 am. The CM KCR today met the Governor Narasimhan and submitted his proposal for his approval.   The front runners for the ministers’ posts are Tummala Nageswara rao, Srinivas Goud, Konda Surekha, Chandulal, Lakshma Reddy, Indrakaran Reddy and Jupalle Krishna rao. Currently the CM KCR is holding more than half a dozen important portfolios besides his post. He has kept Energy, Coal, SC, ST, BC, Minorities Welfare, Municipal Administration & Urban Development and GAD with him. So, the new comers may get any of these portfolios. The officials are preparing chambers to the new ministers in the D Block in the Secretariat.   No surprise if this cabinet expansion triggers hopes in the TDP leaders back in the Andhra Pradesh state expecting their leader CM Chandrababu Naidu to go for cabinet expansion.

Chandrababu’s E-Idea brings Rs. 71.25 crore to government

  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s idea of selling the sand on-line has brought the government revenue of Rs.71.25 crores in just three months. The AP Government has introduced the on-line sand booking and sales in October and within three months, the business is flourishing with ever growing orders and thus proportionately the revenue to the state government.   During the first month, there were 8,524 orders and it got Rs. 5.43 crores. It was bulged to 69,832 orders and earned Rs.33.16 revenue in November. During the two weeks of this December month 70,699 orders were placed amounting to Rs. 32.43 crores. So, as the orders keep increasing, proportionately the revenue also keep increasing.   State government has authorized the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) to handle the mining, sales and supply of the sand to the consumers in the 13 districts. Consumers can place their orders for the sand through Mee Seva counters or through the official web site. SERP is also roping in State Bank of India, State Bank of Hyderabad and Andhra Bank to handle the online money transactions.   According to SERP CEO G Veerapandiyan, East Godavari stood top with 46,244 orders and Srikakulam lowest with 10,366 orders. There was mixed response to this new sand policy.   Builders and common public express quite happy for making their job easy, but people in remote districts like Srikakulam and Ananthapur opined that the system need to be streamlined to ensure timely supply of sand for a reasonable price. Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (Credai) AP president A Siva Reddy said “Of course, initially we have faced some problems, but now there is lots of improvement in the situation. Probably, the system may be fined tuned during the course of time.”

This is to certify that…

  Governor Narasimhan after meeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to media has stated “I have explained the Prime Minister about various issues emerged post bifurcation of the state. I told them both Chief Ministers are working very nicely and putting lots of efforts to develop their states. I told him that Law and Order situation in the both states is also excellent and both states are very peaceful.”   Later, the Union Minister for IT Ravi Shankar Prasad, who came to Hyderabad, also made similar statement He said, “I am happy to see both Chief Ministers are putting lots of efforts to develop their states.”   But, before issuing this ‘good conduct certificate’ to both Chief Ministers, he was forced to has to lend his ears to Telangana Chief Minister KCR and his team to hear their complaints made against AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his government. So, both these statements made by the Governor Narasimhan and Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad underlining a point that Centre is not willing to interfere in their disputes. So are they patting both Chief Ministers even after hearing their complaints?

Terrorists may strike Delhi: US alerts India

  US Intelligence agency has alerted the Indian government about a possible attack on New Delhi by the Lashkar terror gang at any time. Hence, the Delhi police announced a high alert in Delhi and surrounding cities. They have started a joint operation with Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh police to trace out the terrorists gangs. They keep an eye on the bus stands, railway stations and airports in Delhi and surrounding areas. Delhi police officials have a meeting with the Intelligence Officials to exchange the available information. They both are reviewing the situation of the capital and decide to maintain a round the clock watch in all the important places in Delhi and surrounding places.   Indian Intelligence officials are reported to be in touch with their counterparts of US to avail more information about the terrorists’ plans. Pakistan based terrorists have desperately tried to enter into India during the elections period in Jammu and Kashmir state, but the Indian security forces do not give them a chance for it. But, the latest alert sounded by the US agency reveals that somehow the terrorists have managed to enter into the country from some other border or the sleeper cells in the country may be assigned to this task.

Cong. leaders lodge complaints against each other

  The two young leaders of the Congress party Vishnuvardhan Reddy and Kalvakurthi MLA Vamshichand Reddy had a clash at a marriage function of Vishnuvardhan Reddy’s brother-in-law at N Convention Center in Hyderabad today.   Vishnuvardhan Reddy said “We have not invited him to this function. However, I don’t know why he has come and who has invited him. He would have behaved properly in the function, but pushed me in front of all my relatives. His gun man pulled his gun out threatening me. I don’t understand why he comes to marriage and why he misbehaved in the marriage function. If he wants, I am ready for a straight fight with him in the open place, but not in the marriage function. He should know that I am son of late PJR. I am not scared to face him.”   Vamshichand Reddy said, “I didn’t misbehave with anyone. It is Vishnuvardhan, who misbehaved with in the function. However, I didn’t loose my cool. But, I just defend myself, when he pushed me.” Later, they both have lodged complaints against each other in Madhapur police station.

Why political parties ignores Hindus?

    M Venkaiah Naidu reacting to the opposition demands for action against the Bajarang activists involved in the conversion of 54 Muslim families into Hinduism, said “My government is ready to discuss on this matter but the opposition parties are not ready for it. They just demand for a discussion and walk-out from the house when the government is ready for a discussion on it. In fact, I also demand a strong law to be formed to prevent religious conversions in the country. If the members of the house are ready to discuss on this issue, a strong law can be formed to prevent this problem,” said Venkaiah Naidu.   However, the opposition parties keep rocking the parliament over this issue. But, we can notice that Venkaiah Naidu is wisely trying to utilize this opportunity to bring a law to ban religious conversions in the country.   Need not to say everyday thousands of Hindus are converting into Chiristian or some other religions due to known reasons. The conversions have reached to an alarming level. However, no political party wants to speak on this issue because it wants to upholdits secular tag. However, when BJP speaks about Hindus interests or try to defend them, all these so called secular parties attack it and also project it as communal party. These days taking word Hindu on the lips is also being treated as a sin or communal.   The other reason for the political parties interest in Muslim community is their vote bank. All polical parties including MIM treats the Muslim community as their vote bank and use their secular cards to win their hearts and votes as well. So, no political party in the country is afford to loose its secular tags.   The other reason to ignore the large Hindu community is they can’t be pocketed like Muslim vote bank. Hindus are divided into hundreds of casts and sub sects. So, they form hundreds and thousands of different groups with different combinations. Different groups can be influenced by different points or things or issues. So, they can’t be treated as a whole or a bunch. So, political parties in the country have to apply different ideas to lure different groups of Hindus. So, winning Hindus is a very complicated process. So, political parties think about them only during the elections period and ignores in between periods.

Is KCR not sure to complete his pet project?

  The AP CM Chandrababu Naidu is still trying to persuading the Centre to grant the sops that were promised to the state in the AP Reorganization Bill-2014 and also by the NDA government itself, despite having strong relations with the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, so far nothing was granted except an uninterrupted power supply pilot project to the state.   In this context, one would expect Telangana CM KCR would put more efforts to improve his relations with the central government to get its help to his pet projects. However, he has shown no interest to improve relations with the Centre, instead he used criticize the NDA government for showing step mother attitude towards the Telangana state over various issues.   However, when he softens his tone and start showering praises on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the state BJP unit and it’s off shoots like Vishwa Hindu Parishat hardly hitting at him and his government. Former president of the BJP Indrasena Reddy strongly criticized CM KCR for constructing a Pylon for his ambitious water grid project.   Speaking to media at Choutuppal in Nalgonda district he said “The CM KCR’s idea of constructing a pylon to his pet project appears to be preparing a coffin before death. I think he is constructing it because he fears that some else name will be written on it, if he couldn’t complete the water grid project during his term. So, he is installing the Pylon even before commencement of the project to ensure his name is written across it. Poor people in the state are badly suffering due to his lack of experience in ruling the state.”   Praveen Togadia, the hardcore Hindu leader of VHP, who came to Hyderabad to launch the official website of his VHP of the city at Shamshabad, said “I think Hindus, especially poor and lower middle class Hindus are being ignored by the TRS government. CM KCR appears to be giving more importance to Muslims than Hindus. Introducing reservation system on religious grounds is a fine example for it. His ruling is just reflecting the Nizam ruling. Once, people of the state have fought with Nizam to free themselves from his clutches. It seems the time has come to start a fresh fight against KCR government to free themselves.”   Whether their criticism has any impact on him or not CM KCR should put more efforts to improve his relations with NDA government.