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Rahul Gandhi also doing Padayatra?

  Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi wakes-up from his long sleep with the defeat of his party in Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir States. According to latest information, he is likely to conduct a padayatra from Saranath to Banaras in Uttar Pradesh very soon. The purpose is to strengthen his party. However, his program is not yet finalized. Senior Congress leaders are discussing whether it is worth conducting padayatra in this time when there are no elections around.    Actually, Rahul Gandhi has no other job to do now after his party was defeated in the general elections. Moreover, he and his mother are often facing demands from within the party to handover the party reins to some others who can lead the party efficiently. His prince image is also gradually fading away behind the strong influence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So, all these reasons may encourage him to think about going on a padayatra. Whether his padayatra could strengthen his party or not definitely it will help him to catch the media attention after a longtime.

YCP finds fault with CBN’s decision

  YSR Congress party may believe that being the main opposition party, its duty is to oppose any decision taken by the ruling TDP government, so is it opposing the CM Chandrababu Naidu’s decision to allow the retail market giants Reliance, Wal-Mart, ITC into AP market.   Vasireddy Padma, the official spokesperson of the YSR Congress party speaking to media at party office flayed Chandrababu Naidu for allowing the retail giants into the AP market. She also levied serious allegations against him of taking thousands of crores of rupees bribes from them. She asked why he has changed his mind when TDP MPs were issued a whip to vote against the FDI bill in the parliament during UPA regime. She reminds that her party opposed the bill, but TDP MPs have abstained during voting time. She demands an explanation from the CM about what makes him change his stand on this issue.   If, Chandrababu Naidu doesn’t allow the retail giants enter into the AP market then also YSRCP may blame him for behaving like a monarch. It should note that no developing country or state will ever think to control the markets instead they will be encouraged to spread and thus generate revenue for the governments. If markets are flourishing with good business, it is generally considered as a good sign of healthy condition of the states. Since, Chandrababu Naidu is dreaming for a rapid development of the state, he is letting the markets also spread proportionately.   And opposing the FDI bill is to be seen as purely a political decision. The FDI bill was introduced by the rival Congress party and so TDP opposed it. However, Vasireddy reminds that the two MPs of TDP have abstained from the FDI Bill voting. That itself is indicating about TDP’s stand on it. Unfortunately, YSRCP is trying to politicize each and every issue instead of giving constructive suggestions to the state government.   YSRCP alleges that Chandrababu Naidu chooses Vijayawada for building the capital city merely because he wants to benefit his party leaders. Now, Vasireddy Padma alleges that CM Chandrababu Naidu is allowing the retail giants into the state only because he received thousands of crores bribes from them. Since, she is making very severe allegations against a CM she has to show the evidences for it, before asking his explanation.

Deploy Paramilitary to prevent misuse of waters?

  The disputes between the AP and Telangana states over sharing of water have reached its peak with AP government’s letter to Centre appealing for deployment of paramilitary forces reservoirs to prevent Telangana government from drawing additional waters from the reservoirs. AP government in its letter to Centre complains that Telangana government is still secretly generating power by drawing water from the Srisailam dam, whereas was allowed to generate power till November 2, 2014 only.   AP government argues that entire Rayalaseema region will be deprived of drinking water, the ayacut under the KC canal, SRBC and Telugu Ganga projects will badly affected, if Telangana government keep drawing water from the dam for power generation. It argues that Telangana government should strictly abide by the water sharing formula proposed by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal and shouldn’t violate it. However, the Telangana government is ignoring the Tribunal guidelines, Krishna River Board Management orders and also violating the schedule 11 of AP Reorganization Bill-2014.   So, AP government appeals the Centre to intervene in this matter and deploy the paramilitary forces to prevent the Telangana government drawing any additional waters from Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar dams. Responding to the letter, the union water resources ministry is planning to seek the Telangana government explanation in this regard.

Will BJP contest GHMC elections alone?

  BJP President Amit Shah will visit AP and Telangana states on January 8 and 9th. He will reach Hyderabad on 7th evening and meet his party leaders of Telangana on 7th and 8th. Probably, he may finalize the party stand whether to go along with TDP or not for facing GHMC elections. While a section of BJP leaders are favoring alliance with TDP, another group are averse to it.   Those who favor alliance with TDP argue that unless BJP join hands with TDP, it would be very difficult to convince the Andhra people settled in the twin cities to vote for it. They argue the TRS that has the support of MIM, if gets YSR Congress party support also then it may have edge over BJP in GHMC elections. So, they argue that it is wise to go along with TDP in the GHMC elections otherwise BJP’s electoral chances will be blink.   However, the others who are opposing alliance with TDP argue that it is worth taking risk in GHMC elections. BJP should consider this as an opportunity to test its strength in the twin cities. They argue that the TRS, MIM alliance should be treated as an opportunity to corner the ruling TRS government over metro rail project and many other local issues.   So, Amit Shah has to take a final decision on this matter. Probably, he may prefer to go along with TDP in the GHMC elections, as it is too early to snap ties with the TDP. Even if he lets the party contest alone in the elections, it would be just a friendly contest and not any serious fight between the two parties. Amit Shah is expected to visit Vijayawada on January 9th. Probably, some Congress and YSR Congress party leaders may join BJP during his visit to the state.

Is PDP playing mind games in J&K?

  People’s Democratic Party that emerges as a single largest party by winning 28 seats out of 87 in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is short of 16 seats to form the government. The second largest party BJP that bags 23 seats has tried to strike a deal with it, but drops the idea as the conditions laid by PDP is unacceptable to it.   Then, PDP welcomes National Conference led by outgoing CM Omar Abdullah and the Congress party to support her party. PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti met the Governor NN Vohra on Wednesday claiming that her party has total 55 MLAs support.   But, after coming out of the Rajbhavan, she is all praise to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, instead of briefing the media about her plans for government formation.   She said “Vajpayee had started dialogue with Hurriyat. He had started dialogue with Pakistan. We got generous economic package. UPA continued it for some time but later stopped it. Modi government also got the responsibility to carry forward the development activities as he promised to the people during elections campaigning. But, development will be there as long as peace prevails.”   If she really has 55 MLAs support to her party, she need not to praise Vajpayee ruling and Modi’s support for developing the state. So, she might be playing a mind game to woo the BJP to get its support to her party.   The issues that she mentioned in her statement like dialogue with Kashmiri separatists Hurriyat leaders, Economic package, Development, maintaining peace in the valley sounds conditions for having a deal with BJP.   She may be expecting the BJP to resume a dialogue with Hurriyat leaders, withdraw Armed forces from Kashmir Valley and grant special economic package to the state to share power with her party. But, BJP is averse all her conditions.   She knew that sailing with political rivals-the Congress and National Conference for a long time is highly impossible. Though she runs the show, they both may control her sitting in the back seat. Knowing this, she wants to share power with the BJP to form a stable government, but wants BJP to agree to her terms and conditions. Perhaps, that is what she is speaking about now.   But, BJP also can take the support of its old ally National Conference and form government in the state. He asks Deputy CM Post, a central minister post and a Rajya Sabha seat to his party. So, Omar’s conditions are comparatively much better than her conditions and BJP may think about taking his party support than supporting PDP.

Cultivation not allowed in the Capital city area?

  AP Agriculture Minister Prattipati Pulla rao has stated that cultivation is prohibited in the ear marked areas of the capital city from next session. He said farmers are allowed to sell their products produced from their agricultural lands but not allowed for cultivation. This measure is to prevent any complications in land acquisition process, said the minister.   State government has identified 122 acres of land for the capital city and brings it under CRDA limits. But, CRDA limits spread to 7068 km in Krishna and Guntur districts. The state government will collect total 30,000 acres of land from these two districts under land pooling system. All these lands are highly fertile lands and yields three crops a year. But, farmers are asked not to plan any crops in these 30, 000 acres of lands from next session.   Probably, its decision may rage the farmers, who are already very much disturbed with the land acquisition process. So, the 20 teams constituted to carry on with the land acquisition may face the ire of the farmers.   Since, it may take a year or so to start any construction activities in the ear marked areas, government should allow the farmers to carry on with their cultivation works in their lands until then, In the meantime it can work on master plan, obtain necessary clearances and funds from the central government. It will ease the pressures on the state government and also make the farmers cool

New Year Resolutions

  People all over the world are anxiously waiting to step into year 2015. Many of them take many new resolutions on this occasion, while forgetting about their resolutions taken at the beginning of year 2014. Perhaps, we may forget about our fresh resolutions within a month or two and carry on with our routine lives without expecting any much change.   According to a recent survey conducted by research scholars of University of Scranton, only 18 per cent of the people will treat their resolutions very seriously and achieve their goals. According to their survey around 40 per cent of the Americans take new resolutions every year but hardly very few of them remember about their resolutions later.   We may find a lot of stuff on Google about this subject. But, very few people take pains to go through all that stuff to realize what went wrong with their old resolutions and what encourages them to take fresh resolutions again.   If we do some soul searching, try self-motivation, garner our will power in us, one can definitely implement the resolutions, whether they are small or big. But, often people make resolutions just to seek an excuse for their failures in the past or just to impress the friends and relatives. So are their resolutions found untouched at the end of the year. So, we should have some clarity about the purpose of taking resolutions.   If, we have some realistic goals, then it would be easy to uphold our resolutions also. There may be too many constraints in implementing our resolutions, but we shouldn’t let them force us to ignore our resolutions. Instead, we should treat them as challenges that come in our way to distract from our goals. Instead of focusing our attention on the negative things that may pop up, we always should remember that we are in those 18 per cent group of people, who never forget about their resolution and achieve their goals. As long as we let our resolutions tickle in our brains, we can’t be distracted from our goals during the course of time.   After all we all make resolutions just to fill some happiness in our lives. So, we need not to feel sorry for failing to implement our old resolutions, instead we should pat ourselves for thinking in right direction and make another sincere effort to achieve our goals. So, let us take a fresh resolution for year 2015, but with full clarity about its purpose.

Is Jagan really fighting for the farmers?

  Once, the YSR Congress party had successfully created a rift between TDP high command and Jr.NTR with a quite innovative idea of using Jr.NTR photos on its flexi banners. The gap couldn’t be filled even after two years. YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy is conducting a dharna at Tanuku in West Godavari district on January 6 and 7th protesting CM Chandrababu Naidu’s failure to implement the elections promises.   It is once again trying similar idea to create a gap between the people of the state and the state government. His party will put flexi banners in every village on which the promises made by Chandrababu Naidu during elections time and his statements made after coming into power will be written across. YSRCP believes that the flexi banners will educate the people to understand the large difference between his statements.   Actually, the YSR Congress party is trying to politicize every issue that comes in its way so as to gain some political mileage out of it. But, people distances from its programs because it lacks honesty in its efforts. Last time, Jagan Mohan Reddy chooses Vizag for staging one day dharna because some of his leaders are slipping away from the party in the district. Now, he picks Tanuku to showcase his strength and thus to strengthen his party in the district where his party fails to win a single seat in the general elections. But, he claims that he is fighting for the sake of farmers.

Rapid growth in vehicle business in AP state

  People of Andhra and Rayalaseema region were quite disturbed with the bifurcation of the state, because there is no strong income source like Hyderabad city for the residuary AP state. However, their anxieties proved to be meaningless when seen the rapid growth in the vehicle business sector.   The undivided AP state government has earned Rs. 1000 crores of revenue from the 13 districts of the AP region in the last year. It is Rs.1200 crores now for the same period, which means a 20 percent increase in just six months period. Need not to say that this entire amount goes into AP government’s account only as Telangana state was separated from the AP.   Around, 72 vehicle showrooms were opened in the AP state during the last six months period. Out of these, around 25 are four-wheelers and ten are luxurious cars show rooms. These are in addition to the existing 84 show rooms that spread across the 13 districts of the state.   Earlier, many people in Rayalaseema and Krishna, East and West Godavari districts were used to purchase four wheelers from Hyderabad only as there is a wide choice to select. But, they now prefer to buy from the AP state only because they have to cough up 4 percent entry tax, if they buy vehicles at Hyderabad. So, that four wheel market has simply shifted to AP during the course of last six months. Many new car and bike show rooms were opened in and around Guntur and Vijayawada cities, where the farmers become milliners over night with the real estate boom. Even bankers are opening branches in Thullur and surrounding areas to cash in the huge transactions made by the local people.   The sudden growth in the car and bike show rooms and their sales brought an unexpected fortune to the cash strapped AP state government. Probably, the revenue may further grow once the capital city stands up at Thullur.   If the state government could bring the higher educational institutions and industrial corridors to the state as promised in the AP Reorganization Bill-2014, then this vehicle and transport business and the revenue also may grow proportionately. So, people can assume good days are ahead for the AP state.

Who are those two masked persons?

  The ruling TDP and the main opposition party YSR Congress leaders are blaming each other for burning of crops in some villages in Thullur Mandal, where the locals are not willing to depart with their lands. YSR Congress party is demanding for a CBI inquiry into this matter.   Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, who visited the villages today, alleges that Jagan Mohan Reddy may be behind this conspiracy. He warned that he will not spare anyone found involved in this barbaric incident.   This incident may escalate tensions in the villages and thus create unexpected problems in the land acquisition process to be started from tomorrow. So, the government should react swiftly and nab the culprits at the earliest.   According to police, two unidentified persons wearing black color face masks indulged in this heinous crime. Police stated that the duo has indulged in such criminal activities few weeks back also, but they went un-noticed as they were not so serious crimes. The duo hurled empty cool drink bottles into a local temple. Police suspect that they may be either some anti-social elements or psychos. Police teams are searching for them.

Who will form government in J & K State?

  The stalemate over Jammu and Kashmir government formation is still continuing as the PDP and BJP that emerges as largest parties have firmly stick to their stands over terms and conditions for extending support to each other. It is learnt that PDP and BJP have difference of opinion over abandoning the special powers accorded to the state with article 370 and withdrawal of the armed forces from the Kashmir valley. Hence, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is trying to form a grand alliance taking support of the Congress and National Conference, which are ready to support her party to form the government. She is going to meet Governor NN Vohra on Wednesday to express her readiness to form the government. PDP need a minimum 44 MLAs support to form the government and it will have total 57 MLAs support, including PDP-28, Congress-12 and National Conference-17 MLAs. So, it may not find any problem to form the government, but how long these three parties can sail together is a big question. National Conference led by the outgoing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wants deputy chief minister and some important portfolios to his party. Though, the Congress party has not spelled its mind until now, it also may demand for the same as its former union minister Gulam Nabi Azad and few others from the state have become jobless after their party defeat in the general elections. Moreover, National Conference and PDP have been rivals since their formation. So, Omar Abdullah may keep twisting PDP’s hands as long as his party supports the PDP government. It would be like sailing in boat that has a hole beneath. PDP can’t expect much help from the NDA government also for the state development. However, BJP may not let this golden opportunity of forming the government in J & K State. So, it also may play its cards before PDP make any further move.

Finance Minister Jaitley differs with RBI Governor

  ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ ideas both are the brain child Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So, generally opposition parties only are expected to criticize them but not RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan.   He said the products should be made keeping in view of Indians’ requirements and Indian markets, but not for exporting purpose alone. Obviously, his statement triggers a debate in the political circles and draws some mixed response to it.   Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who disagrees with his opinion, stated “There is a misbelief in many people that this program is to encourage exporting the Indian products to international market. It is not important whether the products are sold in the local markets in the country or exported to foreign markets. The basic idea behind this ‘Make in India’ program is to produce quality products that are par with international standards at affordable prices. If, we can produce quality products at affordable prices, foreign countries will show interest to buy our products only. If we can attract international market, we should be proud of it. However, I would like to make it clear that we will not blindly follow China policy in producing and exporting our products to foreign markets.”

Police arrests ABN journalist and released

  The intolerance towards a section of media by the Telangana government has been strongly criticized by everyone. However, it did nothing to lift the ban on the two media news channels even after 198 days in the state, which is shameful in a democratic country like India. As if it is not enough, police have taken Ranganath, the ABN Warangal news division in-charge into custody on yesterday midnight, fearing protests from the journalists during CM KCR’s visit to the city on Monday.   According to him, three police men have entered into his home yesterday mid-night and taken him to Mattewada police station. He said they not even let him speak to his family or to his office staff on phone. But, later they released him as the news spreads like wildfire and journalists start protesting his arrest. However, he was asked to not to step out of his house till CM KCR’s visit is over. According to ABN reports, police have also arrested a TV9 reporter, few other journalists, ABVP and SFI student’s union leaders as a preventive measure. Journalists and the students groups have staged protests during CM KCR’s la

Bomb Blast in Bangalore, one killed

  A woman died and two others were seriously injured in a bomb blast taken place near Coconut Group Hotel, in the Church street of Brigrade Road in Bangalore city on Sunday night. Nine others were also minor injured in this incident.   City Poice rushed to the spot within five minutes after the blast and found that the IED bomb was blasted with the electronic detonator. The deceased Bhavani and her relatives after having a dinner, while returning from a nearby hotel, caught in this this bomb blast. While, Bhavani died on the spot her brother Karthik (20) managed to escape with minor injuries. She came from Chennai to Bangalore to celebrate the New Year with her relatives, but unfortunately died in this bomb blast.   Forensic experts are collecting the clues from the location. According to preliminary police reports, militants belong to prohibited SIMI terrorist organization might have made this blast. Police have arrested two suspected persons so far. National Investigating Agency sleuths have arrived to Bangalore a short while ago for investigation. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who talked to Chief Minister Sidda Ramaiah yesterday night is also coming to Bangalore today. Union Minister Sadananda Gouda visited the location and also talked with the injured persons in the hospital. Police have declared a high alert in the city.

Indonesiya flight went missing with 162 people on board

  Air Asia jet flight having 162 people on board including 7 staff crew went missing on Sunday morning, 45 minutes after it takes off from Surabaya airport in Indonesia. The flight bearing No.8501, a A320-200 model jet flight has left Surabai airport at 5.20 am local time and is expected to land at Changi airport in Singapore around 8.30 am.   The last communication takes place between the flight and the ground control at 6.13 am (23:13 GMT Saturday), when one of the pilots asked to take left turn and go for higher altitude of 34, 000 feet to avoid clouds. A minute later, the ground control lost contacts with the flight said Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation. The plane is feared to be collapsed somewhere near Belitung island in the Java Sea. Out of the 155 passengers on board 149 are Indonesia citizens.   Twelve navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships of Indonesia are conducting search operations since Sunday morning but there is no trace of the missing plane or its passengers till now. Britain, Australia and South Korea have come forward to take part in the search operations.

I Apologized Chandrababu Naidu: Kesineni

  Vijayawada TDP MP Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) has met CM Chandrababu Naidu today evening and gave explanation for criticizing the Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and the district officials. Later, speaking to the media, “I have explained what I meant, but admitted my mistake and apologized Chandrababu Naidu for making such statement. I regret for going to media. I assured the CM that I will not raise such issues in front of the media again. If there are any problems, I will talk to CM Chandrababu Naidu, said Kesineni Srinivas.   CM Chandrababu Naidu is said to be planning to convene a meeting with all the MPs, MLS, Ministers and MLCs of the Krishna district in the first week of January to stress the need of teamwork.

I am not with YSR Party: Adinarayana Reddy

  Jammalamadugu YSR Congress party MLA Adinarayana Reddy, who has been staying away from party affairs since last few months, has confirmed the same during his recent media statement.   He said “Of course, I am staying away from the party as I have some differences with the party president Jagan Mohan Reddy. Some seniors in the party have tried to mediate but I told them I have lost interest in the party. I have not decided about my future course of action. I have not approached either TDP or BJP so far. The media reports about my plan to join those parties just an imaginary. I will reveal my decision after speaking to my followers and the people of my constituency.”   Although he is condemning the media reports, he has no other option but choose one from those two parties only as he may not afford to join the Congress party that is gradually disappearing from the state. Perhaps, he may join BJP because TDP is overcrowded and has no room for him. BJP is also ready to roll red carpet to leaders from Reddy community as it wants to take their help to strengthen the party in Rayalaseema region. So, Adinarayana Reddy may be waiting for BJP president Amit Shah’s visit to the state on January 7 and 8th.

Revanth straight question to CM KCR

  Former TDP MLA Talasani Srinivas Yadav resigned to his MLA post to escape disqualification, before joining into CM KCR’s cabinet as a Minister. But, he claims that he quits his MLA post to uphold the ethics in the politics. However, he is still continuing as MLA as the Speaker Madhusudhanachary has not approved his resignation till today.   TDP leader Revanth Reddy asked “Why the Speaker is not approving his resignation when Talasani Yadav is claiming that he resigns to uphold the ethics in the politics. Are you facing any pressures from the CM KCR? If not, speaker should explain why he is not approving his resignation. Talasani claims that he introduced a good tradition by quitting his MLA post before joining the TRS. But, TRS appears to be setting up a new tradition by holding his resignation letter. CM KCR boasts that he maintains high morale in the politics. Is this what he is maintaining? He should explain what stops them from approving Talasani’s resignation and when it will be approved?”

T-Government to spend Rs.1.40 crores on MPs

  Just few days back, the High Court has suggested the Telangana government to think about the needy people instead of gifting woofing amounts to sports persons and investing on entertainment sector. It made this suggestion responding to a petition in connection with farmers’ suicides due to financial problems.   Etela Rajender, the finance minister of Telangana state, who attends in the finance ministers’ meeting held by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday at New Delhi, has appealed him to release funds due to the state government as the situation is not that good. Telangana government appeals the Centre to relax the norms to avail loans from the banks to meet the situation.   But, CM KCR has been liberally announcing huge projects and welfare schemes as if he is unaware about the financial situation of his government. His projects includes Mission Kakateeya, high rise towers around Hussein Sagar Lake, Cleansing of Hussein Sagar lake, world’s tallest building at Indira Park, developing Yadagiri Gutta in par with Tirupati, constructing tallest statue of Lord Hanuman there, building Express ways, Sky Ways across Hyderabad city, extension and realignment of Hyderabad metro rail project, setting up thermal power plants, constructing Cinema City, Sports city, Education City, Textile park at Warangal and hundred other things that needs more than a couple of lacks of crores to completion. In the meantime, Telangana government has to spend thousands of crores to obtain power from other states.   In this prevailing situation, CM KCR has granted an amount of Rs.50, 000 per month to each MP of the state for providing vehicle, security and other facilities. There are total 17 Loksabha MPs and 7 Rajyasabha MPs in the state. So, it will cost the government Rs. 12, 00,000 per month and 1.40 crores per annum.