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Sakshi media misguided Jagan: YCP MLA Peddireddy

  Sakshi media misguided Jagan: YCP MLA Peddireddy Jagan Mohan Reddy argues that his darling enemy Chandrababu Naidu for winning the elections by making false promises to people, which he doesn’t want to do as he is very honest politician. He also admits that his over confidence of winning the elections also a reason for his party defeat. There may be several other reasons for his defeat, but it is true that his over confidence makes him ignore the changing mood of the public.   His party MLA Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy also agrees with his opinion, but he transfer the blame on to Sakshi media. Peddireddy, a YCP MLA from Punganuru in Chittoor district stated “It is Sakshi media which makes Jagan and our party leaders strongly believe that it is just a cake walk for us to win the elections and assume the power. Its stories have made us over confident about our party victory and leads to our party defeat.”

AP government in search of revenue resources

  The cash strapped AP government is searching for alternate revenue resources, as it is not willing to tax the people any more. Hence, it came to know that  it has engaged KPMG consultancy agency to study and suggest the government all possible ways for generating additional revenue through various sectors. The consultancy agency will visit other states and if necessary other countries also to study about the other revenue resources of the governments there before making any recommendations.   State agricultural minister Prattipati Pulla rao said that government is considering issuing government bonds, mortgage properties of the AP Beverages Corporation with banks for generating additional revenue to face the prevailing financial crunch. He said the government is also stressing the Central government to grant sufficient funds to the state to meet the budget deficit and for development activities.

AP Cabinet meeting today

  AP Cabinet meeting today Andhra Pradesh state cabinet meeting will be held by CM Chandrababu Naidu at his Camp Office in Lake View Guest house today. The meeting is very significant as it has to find out solutions for serious issues like crop loan waiver, budget deficit, land acquisition for various development activities and revenue resources for building the new capital, various development and welfare programs to be started across the state. According to sources, the cabinet may also discuss about shifting the government administration somewhere into AP for running the government locally. The cabinet also may take corrective measures to control the rising prices of onion, tomatoes etc. It is learnt the cabinet will also discuss about the issues like students’ fees reimbursement, power and water sharing etc. during today’s meeting.

YCP to support AP government on fees reimbursement

  YSR Congress party may be vociferously speaking about crop loan waiver issue, but it never talked about fees reimbursement issue with which thousands of students badly affected. However, for the first time, it sent its MLAs Jyothula Nehru and Srinivasulu to the all party meeting convened by the AP government for discussing on this issue.   Ministers Ganta Srinivasa rao, R. Kishore babu, BJP leader Vishnu Kumar, YCP MLAs and officials from Education department have participated in this meeting. Both the MLAs of YCP have assured Minister Ganta Srinivasa rao that their party will join their fight on this issue.   The participants of this meeting have condemned the decision of Telangana government of fixing year 1956 as the cut off year for deciding the nativity of the people settled in Hyderabad and surrounding districts. They opined it may be gradually extended to jobs and other sections to eliminate the settlers. Hence it was decided in the meeting to initiate a legal fight against T-Government on this issue. Minister Ganta Srinivasa rao told the members of the meeting that a final decision will be taken in the upcoming cabinet meeting to be chaired by Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.

Aam Admi in touch with Congress?

  Aam Admi in touch with Congress? It was almost six months that Delhi went under President’s rule and the state Assembly was kept in sleep mode after its CM Arvind Kejriwal stepped down from power on February 14th on silly reasons. Hence, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal is desperately trying to woo the Congress party to get its support. Two Congress MLAs have confirmed this news. They said that their party is also thinking alike and this time wants to claim its due share in power, but AAP is asking for an unconditional support. They say negotiations between the two parties are on since last month and they may come to consensus any time. However Manish Sisodia, the AAP leader denied the reports of seeking Congress support.   Whether or not AAP approached Congress through back door, its leader Arvind Kejriwal tweets that BJP is trying to woo Congress MLAs offering Rs. 6 crores each after it fails to lure AAP MLAs. He also tweeted that he sought appointment of Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to throw wrench in BJP’s attempts to form the government with Congress support. Hence, these two developments reveal that AAP also turns into an ordinary political party. If it could strike a deal with Congress and able to form the government again, then it is to be understood that AAP offers them share in power instead of cash.

Jagan turns silent spectator on fees reimbursement?

  Jagan turns silent spectator on fees reimbursement? There was a time when YSR Congress party pitched for a fight with the then AP Government on students’ fees reimbursement issue. His party staged state wide rallies and dharnas on this issue. Jagan himself sat for a week long dharna at Indira Park in Hyderabad demanding the then government to reimburse the students’ fee immediately. But, now he or his party men are not talking about this issue, probably because Telangana CM KCR, with whom he has good relations is not willing to reimbursing the fee to AP students and he don’t want to spoil his relations with KCR. However, Jagan can mediate with Telangana Chief Minister KCR taking advantage of his good relations with him. He can try to convince him to settle this issue amicably with his counterpart Chandrababu Naidu, so as to help thousands of students in both states.   He is aware that AP government alone couldn’t proceed ahead on this issue as it needs the coordination from Telangana government to address this problem. Because of this stalemate between two governments, thousands of students’ studies are hanging in the air. However Jagan, who once fought on this issue prefers to remain a silent spectator. He often says that he is ready to fight with government on behalf of the people, but he means it is not on this fees reimbursement issue. This reveals where his interests lies. He is very desperate to take revenge on TDP and its president Chandrababu for defeating him in the elections. Instead of negotiating with T CM KCR over fees reimbursement, he threatens AP CM Chandrababu Naidu that if his government fails to waive off all the loans within one month period he will start agitation with people.

Government is doing spade work on Black Money issue: FM

  Government is doing spade work on Black Money issue: FM Finance Minister Arun Jaitly replying to a fellow party MP Aurag Thakur’s question raised in the Loksabha yesterday, said “Government is already communicated with Swiss Bank authorities and trying to get the details of the persons, who illegally dumped black money in it. A special investigation team-SIT constituted for this purpose is looking for all possible ways to bring back the black money. Government has already initiated proceedings against those identified in these cases."   "The process of getting the information about the money dumped in the foreign banks and the names of the account holders is very complicated because of foreign banks and countries rules, regulations and policies. It may take a while, but we will not rest until the money is brought back to country and punish the tax evaders,” said Finance Minister.   He also revealed that there are some Indians legally maintaining accounts in these foreign banks. So, the government has to differentiate between legal and illegal accounts. SIT is working on all these issues simultaneously. Various studies reveal that there is around $462 billion to $1.4 trillion black money dumped in these foreign banks by Indian politicians, industrialists, businessmen and many others.   The amount is very tempting for any government, but there are several hurdles to be crossed to lay the hands on the dump. Unless, the government is really honest with its efforts, it is highly impossible to reach that point.

Pawan Kalyan may return to politics soon

  Pawan Kalyan, who played a key role in the victory of TDP-BJP alliance in Andhra Pradesh, is staying away from politics after the elections are over. However, he is gearing up to launch his Janasena party again very soon, as he said earlier. He applied for registration of his party with Election Commission few days ago and is reported to be placed a statement in some newspapers about his party registration process and asks the public to file objections if any on his party’s name.   Janasena party applies for registration with Pawan Kalyan as its president, his close aide Ravi Teja as party general secretary and Raghavaiah as treasurer of the party. If, he could register his party with EC, probably he may return to politics again. His party may be eying to contest in the upcoming GHMC elections.   However, first he has to build his party from scratch with such people, who carries a clean image and are also capable to withstand the strong dominance of Congress, TRS and MIM parties. Pawan Kalyan also has to think about whether to continue his alliance with TDP and BJP or not before contesting any elections.

Prof. Kodandaram caught between OU Students and Government

    An unexpected trouble brews up over Telangana government’s decision to regularize the contract employees working in several government departments. Osmania University students demand the government to revoke its decision that is betraying their job opportunities. They staged dharna in front of T-JAC Chairman Prof. Kodandaram’s house demanding him to fight on their behalf with the government. However, they returned after he assured them that he will discuss the issue in the T-JAC meeting and take a decision.   OU Students may believe that T-Government may not say ‘No’ to Prof. Kodandaram if he insists to revoke its decision, but it is not that easy as it appears. T-Government may not afford to oblige his appeal, because it is implementing its promises made to contract employees during elections campaigning. So, T-JAC has to align with government rather than students, otherwise it will develop fissures in their relations. If, T-JAC denies fighting for students cause, obviously they will fume on it. So, it can’t let down the students. Either way, T-JAC seems to be in fix with this unexpected problem. Let us see how Prof. Kodandaram will deal this sensitive issue.

Centre clueless on how to resolve T-AP state disputes

  The high level meeting held at Delhi yesterday by Anil Goswami, the Chief Secretary of Home Ministry with the Principal Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states-IYR Krishna rao and Rajiv Sharma, couldn’t find any solution to the disputes emerging after bifurcation between the two states. Hence, it was decided to continue the existing procedures on power purchase agreements, though they were not approved by the Regulatory Commission.   Both states agreed to nominate their members for Krishna River Board for continuing the water distribution process. However, the Chief Secretary is clueless about granting special powers to Governor Narasimhan for maintaining law and order situation in common capital Hyderabad. He reserved his views on this issue. Overall, no concrete decision has been taken during this high level meeting, except allowing the state to continue with the present systems.

Rs. 3,200 crores for Polavaram rehabilitation

   Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao said that the Centre has allocated Rs. 3200 crores for rehabilitation works of Polavaram Project, in AP, Chattisgarh and Odisha states. He said once the Centre gives clearance and releases the funds, the project works will be kick started and the state government will try to complete it within four years. He said state government will take full care of the displaced tribals and provides them the best ever package and rehabilitation. He argued that TRS is trying to politicizing the issue to divert the people’s attention.

AP to appeal RBI for extension of crop loans reschedule

   Responding to RBI’s letter over rescheduling the crop loans, AP government decides to write a letter to RBI requesting to extend the reschedule period from 3 years to 7 years so as the government will be able to repay the loans to bankers. The government also is going to appeal the RBI to consider rescheduling the gold loans taken for agricultural purposes during last Rabi session.   RBI identified that total 572 mandals out of 660 were either hit by draught or Phailin cyclone. The farmers in these affected areas have taken Rs. 20,500 crore including Rs 10,000 crores of gold loans. RBI formally agrees to reschedule only crop loans taken during kharif season of 2013-14, but not the loans outside this period and also to the gold loans. But, state government doesn’t expect this kind of proposal from RBI. Hence, it is writing a letter to RBI for a reschedule of entire crop loans and gold loans as well, otherwise it urgently needs Rs.11,000 crore to clear the gold loans to let the farmers get fresh loans. AP   Government is planning fixing the sealing limit for the loan waiver at Rs.1.5 lakhs for crop loans and Rs.50000 for gold loans. This will reduce the burden on the state government around Rs. 12,000 crores, estimates Finance Ministry.   Finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu said the government is committed on its loan waiver promise and leaving no stone left unturned to uphold its promise. He expressed quite confident to repay the crop loans and also can balance the state budget. Hence, it appears with the developments that the crop loans waiver issue may take a few more days’ time to resolve.

Chandrababu appeals MLA for a team work

  During the ongoing MLAs training program being conducted at Kakateeya Grand Hotel in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu appeals all the newly elected MLAs, irrespective of the parties and policies to join hands with him for the development of the state. He said collective efforts by all the elected representatives ensure speedy development of the state.   He suggest them all to uphold their and the house dignity while participating in the discussions in the Assembly. He said that people rather prefer to watch a movie or even a commercial advertisement repeatedly, but not the Assembly proceedings, because they are not happy with the way their elected representatives are behaving in the house, said Chandrababu.   He told them "Youth are reluctant to take up the politics as their profession, because they believe it is a very disgraceful one. They won’t mind to settle for a teacher or some other small job, but no one is willing to join politics. This is clearly revealing that what the people are thinking about us and what is our position in their view. So, all of us always uphold the dignity and serve the people whole heartedly,” said Chandrababu to newly elected MLAs.   Union Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, Assembly Speaker Kodela Shiva Prasada rao, Deputy Speaker M Buddha Prasad, Legislative Counsel Chairman Chakrapani and some others have joined Chandrababu in training the MLAs.

Telugu people stranded in Uttarakhand again

  Telugu people stranded in Uttarakhand again It was only one year ago many people from AP and other states, who visited holy Badrinath temple in Uttarakhand state have lost their lives in the unexpected floods. This year also around 35 people from both Andhra and Telangana were stranded in Uttarakhand due to heavy rains. People went from Visakhapatnam, Rajhamundry, Vijayawada, Machilipatnam, Avanigadda and some places from Telangana, who struck in Uttarakhand are currently taking shelter in Jiyyar Ashram there. All of they are safe and are waiting for help from the government. AP and Telangana governments are making necessary arrangements for their safe return.

Malaysian plane crashed with 295 on board

  A Malaysian Flight-MH 17 with 280 passengers and 15 crew members is reported to be crashed in Ukraine near Russian boarder in the Donetsk region today afternoon. The flight was originated from Amsterdam airport at 12:10 pm local time and is expected to land at Kaula Lumpur airport at 6:00 AM local time. Anton Gerashchenko, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, confirmed that the plane crashed. According to reports the plane was suspected to be shot down at an altitude about 10 km by unidentified militant group. However this information has not been officially confirmed yet.  

Culture of Statues

                                                                                     With the Modi Government allocating 200 Crore for the statue of Sardar Patel to come at Gujarat received a lot of flak. Now the Trinamool Party leaders and some of the BJP MP’s  are making  demanding for  a statue for Swami Vivekananda to come up at Kolkata.   The government's announcement on the Patel statue had attracted severe criticism both from political circles and the public as allocations for several other important schemes such as women's safety in cities and 'BetiBachao, BetiPadhao' scheme were seen to be far less and insufficient.   We are unable to understand as to why the government has to spend Rs.200 crore on a statue, if the statue is called as symbol of unity. Take for example the Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial at KanyaKumari – it was built without the support of the government and a sum of only Rs 1 was collected from the  people of India under the  aegis of Shri Eknath Ranade and built.   The concept of Statues should not become an ego issue and it would be more befitting if we follow the teachings and ideas of these great people of the country. If we think that the system of getting statues erected has started from the culture of worshiping the idols then we need to rethink it over. If we cannot respect somebody without seeing the statue, then it is OK but do we need to spend so much.And we still haven’t forgotten about the rotting statues of Mayawathi and Y S Rajasekhar Reddy still waiting to be consecrated.                                                                              #statueforstatue Tweets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");                                                                            iframe[id^='twitter-widget-']{ width:100% !important;}

AAP crossing swords with Congress and BJP

  AAP crossing swords with Congress and BJP People of New Delhi are delighted to watch the cat fights between AAP, BJP and Congress party over forming the Delhi government. Kejriwal alleges that BJP is indulged in horse trading. “BJP is buying Congress MLAs paying each Rs.6 crore after it fails to lure our party MLAs,” tweets Kejriwal.   He also sought appointment of Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to convince him not to invite BJP to form the government. He tweets “Is it fair to invite BJP that is refused to form the government earlier, which has enough numbers? If the governor invites it to form the government will it be fair? Isn’t it indicates that he is partisan towards BJP?”   BJP MLAs after conducting a meeting at party office in Delhi, decided to wait for Modi return home from Brazil today before going ahead with their proposal. They expect Modi give them nod for forming the government, but party sources saying that he may opt for fresh elections instead of taking Congress support.   In the meantime, people of New Delhi Assembly constituency woke up to see the wall posters of ‘Arvind Kejriwal Missing.’ It was written on the posters that whoever finds him will be suitably rewarded. Obviously, it irks Arvind Kejriwal, who suspects that it is handy work of Congress or BJP. But, it came to know that Resident Welfare Associations of Gol Market and Kali Badi have put the posters, who are fuming on him and his party for not fulfilling the elections’ promises.

Jagan pretends unaware of relief measures taken by government?

    YCP President Jagan Mohan Reddy’s hatred towards TDP President Chandrababu Naidu is not a big secret. He grabs every opportunity to sling mud on him in a bid to defame him. Two days ago he went to Saluru in Vizianagaram district to soothe the bereaved family members of Chennai tragic incident. Later speaking to the media, he flayed CM Chandrababu Naidu and his government for not helping the victim’s family. He demands the government to pay ex gratia to the victims’ family members.   But, it is very surprising to see him unaware of the fact that CM Chandrababu Naidu immediately announces Rs. 5 lakh ex gratia to the deceased family members and Rs. 50,000 to injured persons. Besides government officials from Nellore was sent to the accident spot on the same day, Kimidi Mrunalini, Minister for Rural Development, Housing and Sanitation was also sent to the accident spot immediately for supervising e the relief operations and coordinating with Tamilnadu government officials. CM Chandrababu also personally called upon Tamilnadu CM Jayalalitha and sought her help for getting additional compensation from the builder, for which she immediately agreed.   However, Jagan Mohan Reddy despite having a powerful media in hand and big political network in both states speaks as if he is really unaware of these developments. He would realized about these relief works and ex gratia even while talking to victim’s family members, but he conveniently ignored the fact and slings mud on his darling enemy Chandrababu Naidu pretending as if is unaware of relief measure and compensation announced by the state government. He tried to sling mud on Chandrababu but it boomerangs at him.

NDA embarrassed with RSS leader statement

  Parliament is rocking with the Indian journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik’s meeting with the most wanted Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed. For the first time, NDA government is facing very embarrassing situation in the parliament because of this issue. It is forced condemn his meeting as unwanted diplomacy by a private citizen. It also distanced from him and his meeting.   External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj categorically stated that NDA government not sent him or anyone for a back door talks with dreaded terrorist. She categorically declared that her government has nothing to do with the journalist and his meeting with terrorist.   However, BJP’s ally Shivsena flays the government. It states that NDA government can’t wash out his hands by merely disassociating from the journalist. It strongly demands the government to take severe action against the journalist considering his meeting as a serious offense.   While, NDA government is trying to disassociate with the journalist, there were media reports stating that an RSS leader named Indresh Kumar has strongly backed the journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik. It was reported that he argues the journalist is very patriot and man of high values. Whatever he did was for the betterment of the nation.