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TDP Candidates for Loksabha and Assembly

  TDP has released its 4th list of candidates for Loksabha and Assembly for Seemandhra region. It announces candidates’ names for 5 MP and 13 Assembly seats in this list. Loksabha Candidates: Kesineni Nani                         Vijayawada Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy    Ongole BT Naidu                                 Karnool Sriram Malyadri                       Bapatla G.Sanyarani                            Aruku   Assembly Candidates: J.Chanti babu- Jaggampeta,  Bode Prasad-Penamaluru, Bhan Deo- Saluru, K.Ravu babu- Aruku, Ramesh Reddy-Raichoti, Venkata Ramana Raju-Unganuru, Tikka Reddy-Mantralayam Jaya Nageswar Reddy-Emmiganuru, G.Murali Kannababu-Atmakuru, G. Veeranjaneyulu- Ungaturu, I.Ananda rao- Amalapuram, S.Venkateswara rao- Rampa Chodavaram, T.Sravan Kumar-Tatikonda

Pawan Kalyan’s body language

      With Pawan Kalyan getting into elections and his open support for Narendra Modi saw his first out of state Campaign in Kolar,Karnataka .The Star looked a bit uneasy with all the attention he was getting in Kolar which has a sizeable Telugu Population. He was garlanded with the gajamala and shawl where he looked very out of place even though we are sure his fans might have done it a number of times.   In his indomitable style he again vociferously went on a Congress tirade or dividing the state and separating Telugu people. "Congress must go, Modi must become the prime minister," he asserted which was received with thunderous applause and whistles and he could barely complete his speech without the crowd going wild at every word he spoke.   Once the elections are over he would have a fairly good idea of what campaigning is all about.

Kapunadu asks Pawan not to support TDP

  Pilla Venkateswara rao, president of State Kapunadu Association appealed Pawan Kalyan to revoke his decision to support TDP. He alleges that Chandrababu doesn’t respect those Kapu leaders, who are not financially sound. He also blames all political parties treating the Kapu community as mere vote bank. However, Pawan Kalyan has made it clear in his very first meeting that he wouldn't abide by cast, region or relegion factos. He said that he came into politics only to ensure a right party comes into power both ast state and Central levels.So, he may not consider the community leaders appeals in this reard.

The 4th generation Gandhi War in 2014

      It’s been a field day with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Varun Gandhi taking digs at each other .This time now with Priyanka saying that the Lok Sabha elections is not a family Tea party in reference to Varun’s saffron stance. She seems to be unrepentant over the video which was leaked where she came out pretty hard on Varun   "This is not a family tea party. It is an ideological war. Would not have forgiven my child, if he did something like this," is what she said to which Varun hit back at her for crossing the Lakshman Rekha of decency and it should not assumed that since he did not respond meant that he was weak. The same was the case during the Rajiv Gandhi time when he had a fall out with his cousin Arun Nehru who left the Congress and joined V P Singh to form the Jan Morcha in 1987.But those difference were set aside after he died in 2013 when Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi attended Arun Nehrus funeral and it was actually Priyanka Gandhi’s son Raihan who lit the pyre. Looks like the 4th generation heirs to the Gandhi/Nehru family have decided to openly criticize each other during the ongoing campaigns.  

Will Nirbhaya’s killers ever be hanged?

      In what could be called as a classic case of delayed justice when compared to the Shakti Mills case where the fast track court had given death sentence to the 3 convicts accused of raping a photo journalist and a telephone operator in Mumbai’s Shakti Mills compound, the Nirbhaya’s case is still continuing with the Supreme Court asking the Counsel to produce the Dying Declaration of the victim in court.   It looks more like a trial of Nirbhaya than the accused Mukesh and Pawan and the other two who were given the death sentence for the gang-rape and assault on the  23-year-old paramedical student inside a private bus in December  2012 who eventually died of grave injuries caused because of the heinous act. Now the latest news is that the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Delhi Police to show the dying declaration of the gang-rape victim as it extended its interim order putting on hold the execution of death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta who were convicted of the crime.  The apex court bench consisting of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice J Chelameswar asked Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra to produce the dying declaration as Counsel ML Sharma appearing for Mukesh and Pawan expressed his inability to produce it before the court. Justice Chelameswar observed: "If dying declaration is convincing, then we don't think why this court should interfere in the matter. Now the accused Mukesh and Pawan have contended that the prosecution's story that the victim's end came because of heavy bleeding on account of serious injuries to her intestines was not confirmed by the post-mortem report by the Singapore hospital. This is actually where the technicalities of our legal system help the accused in misusing it. How can the Singapore hospital confirm the post-mortem report when she was airlifted much later after being treated in the Delhi Hospital? The air lifting to Singapore was a last minute act by the Government of India to save its face as she was already sinking and if anything would happen to her would only aggravate the riotous situation in Delhi. They accused have  also contended that their trial was not free and fair, and the trial that started in January  21, 2013, was under "public/political pressure" with "object to hang the petitioners (Mukesh and Pawan) and other accused people". Describing the entire trial as "miscarriage of justice", the petitioners have contended that they were represented by a state-appointed advocate. This seems to be more of miscarriage of Justice to Nirbhaya and she still continues to suffer…  

Gulzar gets the Dada Saheb Phalke Award

      Lyricist, poet, writer & director Gulzar will be the 45th recipient of the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 2013 .   Born as Sampooran Singh Kalra in 1934, Gulzar, got his first break with Bimal Roy’s Bandini . He then went on to work with leading music directors including Sachin Dev Burman,  Salil Chowdhury, Shankar Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal,  Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan, Anu Malik, and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and his favourite A R Rehman. He also contributed to several films as script, story and dialogue writer and eventually went on to direct films that won many awards and recognition. Among them are Mere Apne, Koshish,  Aandhi, Meera and Maachis.  He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 and also won the Academy Award for  Best Original Song for Jai Ho along with AR Rahman for the film Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.This also got him the Grammy in 2010. Winner of five National Awards; 19 Filmfare Awards, an Oscar and a Grammy, you can catch the  generally reserved Gulzar saab playing tennis early in the morning at Bandra Gymkhana in  Bombay apart from  doing what he loves best - writing .  

After Jaya, Karuna takes lead to attack Modi

Politics in Tamilnadu are a bit different to other parts of the nation. There, the people change their guard after every elections but the choice is very little. Either it should be DMK or AIADMK and nothing else. Now the latter is enjoying its time in power. However, the cat fight between these two parties continues for the last four decades without any interruption amusing the people of the state. This is elections time everywhere and obviously its peak time for their cat fight.   Recently, when Narendra Modi met Kollywood super star Rajnikanth, both these political parties were shocked with his unexpected move. Hence, first Tamilnadu CM Jayalalitha lashes at BJP and also her rival DMK chief Karunanidhi over Cauveri waters issue, but can’t afford to pass any comments on Rajnikanth.   Then DMK Chief Karunanidhi takes lead from her and flayed BJP, but he too is very cautious with Rajnikanth’s name. Modi in his public meeting in Chennai held on Sunday has criticized two chiefs of both parties stating that they dedicate their whole time for destroying the each other rather than sparing it for development activities. Karunanidhi responding to his criticism said “He came for campaigning for his BJP. Its alright, but his remarks made against us seizes his party electoral chances in the state.”   What is interesting in this blame game is, it begins only after Congress pinches them asking whether they have any secret agreement with BJP for post poll alliance.

Magunta joins TDP

  Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy representing Ongole constituency has joined TDP along with many followers in the presence of Chandrababu Naidu today. Babu welcoming them into party said that TDP will be strengthens with their joining. Magunta told the media that he strongly believes that Chandrababu alone can put the state back on to its track. So, he asked people that it is time to stand unite for reconstructing our state in the leadership of Chandrababu Naidu.

Transgenders can also Vote

  Finally Transgenders have been recognized by the Supreme Court and the Government of India as citizens of India and have been accorded equal rights to vote. In a culturally sensitive country like India where the Transgender or the LGBT community have been waging a battle with the Government and the people for recognition as normal people and also with the Supreme Court’s ruling in December 11 2013 which was in favour of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which penalizes Gay activity , this has brought in a relief and a first step to recognition of this minority community.   In what could be considered a landmark judgment in India , the Supreme Court recognised transgenders or eunuchs as a third category of gender and directed the Centre and States to grant them all facilities including voters ID, passport and driving licenses. It has also directed the Government to take steps to bring the community into the mainstream by providing adequate healthcare, education and employment opportunities and not show any discretion while providing these basic rights. Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice A K Sikri directed the government to take steps for granting recognition to transgenders as a separate third category of gender after male and female.   Its time to print new forms and create the third check box along with Male and Female.

India-Born Vijay Seshadri wins the Pulitzer Award

      India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems "3 Sections."This was announced by the Columbia University for the 98th Puiltzer prizes for Journalism, Drama, and Music etc. He will receive USD 10,000 cash as part of the award.   Bangalore born Mr Seshadri is a Columbia University alumnus and teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at liberal arts college Sarah Lawrence in New York. His poems can be described as  a "compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless," the announcement said. Mr Seshadri is the fifth person of Indian origin to bag the prestigious award.

Pawan likely to support JP

  If reports are to be believed, Pawan Kalyan has declared support to Loksatta National president Jayaprakash Narayan, who is contesting for Loksabha from Malkajgiri constituency. According to reports, he is also planning to campaign for him very soon. If so, it may adversely affect the electoral chances of TDP candidate Malla Reddy contesting from there. Pawan has made it clear that he is supporting Modi and Chandrababu, which is to be taken for granted as supporting BJP and TDP. So, it would be contrary to his decision of supporting TDP, if he campaigns for Jayaprakash Narayan.

YS Jagan needs to understand Statistics

      The YSR Congress Party leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy who came out with their Manifesto yesterday went off on a tirade against TDP leader by saying that development was better during the YSR regime. Talking about statistics he said that it was in his father’s time that AP had seen a surge of development in the field of IT , but for the fact that it was during Naidu’s time the whole concept of IT was developed and implemented. The number of jobs generated in the IT field were more than Naidu’s time.   But if the promotion of the field of IT was spearheaded by Mr. Naidu than how can the Congress take credit for it. When the TDP was in power between 1994 and 2004 and YSR regime which was only between 2004 and 2009 - these figures cannot be compared as the development phase had started then and if we remember correctly India witnessed the Great Recession phase where many people lost their jobs and would Y S Jagan be willing to give the credit to his father for that? Check out the brief highlights of the YSRCP Manifesto which was the last to come out.Nothing new in regards to development of the State has been given. Pension to be Rs.700 per month. Special centres in every village to give the people any type of identity card within 24 hours. About ten local women will do the duties in the centre ‘Amma Vodi’ Pathakam for poor people. As per the program, Rs.500 will be deposited in the bank account of mother every month. If a family consists of two children, the amount will be Rs.1000. Natural calamities fund will be established with a fund of Rs.2,000 crores. Farmers will be given immediate relief under the scheme. Agricultural colleges in two districts. Three agricultural and veterinary universities will be established in the state. Complete Fee reimbursement. 102 mobile team service at every mandal headquarter in the state. Farmers will get the service within 20 minutes of making a call. 103 mobile team service in every mandal headquarter in the state for veterinary services. Loan waiver of DWACRA ladies to the tune of Rs.20,000 crores. Changes will be done in the loan policy of DWACRA women.About two lakh women in 20,000 villages will get the employment. Power cut- free state by 2019. Seven hours of compulsory power for farmers daily. Orphanage in every assembly constituency. No belt shops in villages.Super specialty hospitals in every district.Liquor sale only at one place in a constituency. 50 lakh houses to be constructed  within next five years. A house for every person.  Complete changes will be made in Arogyasri scheme. Rs.3,000 pm will be provided to every person, who got operated, till he is in a position to go to work

Pawan to campaign for BJP

  Pawan Kalyan’s campaigning for BJP in neighboring Karnataka state is finalized. He will start from Hyderabad Begumpeta airport at 7.30 am tomorrow. He will campaign for BJP in three places-Raichur, Kolar and Guru Kidkala in Karnataka state tomorrow, where huge number of Telugu people are settled. His first meeting will begin at Raichuru around 9 am, then at Kolar at 12.30 pm and finally at Guru Kidkala at 3.30 pm. Pawan Kalyan will leave reach meeting venues by helicopter arranged by BJP.

Botsa get advantage of Cong situation

  Botsa Satyanarayana, whose was cut short to ground level and lost his glory overnight after replaced by Raghuveera Reddy as PCC president, seems is blessed with the miserable situation of his party in Seemandhra. Though, he did not pressurize the party for allotting tickets to his family members this time, the beleaguered Congress party has offered him a big family pack of total five tickets.   While Botsa Satyanarayana has retained ticket to contest from Cheepurupalli in Vizianagaram district, his wife Botsa Jhansi got MP ticket from Vizianagaram. His brother Appala Narasaiah got ticket from Gajapati Nagaram, his close relatives Appala Naidu and Ramana Murthy also got tickets from Nellimarla and S.Kota simultaneously. He also managed to get ticket for his close aide I.Raghurama Raju.   People of Vizianagaram, who until now are blaming him for grabbing all seats to his family, may not blame him anymore because he is blessed with Congress situation.

Is it Hari Babu v/s Vijayamma

  YSR Congress party is fielding its honorary president Vijayalakshmi from Visakhapatnam as its Loksabha candidate. Since, TDP has left that seat for BJP as per agreement of seat sharing for their poll alliance BJP has to announce its candidate’s name yet. As of now, BJP Seemandhra president K.Hari Babu is likely to contest from there for Loksabha. However, sitting MP D. Purandeswari is still hopeful to retain her seat.   Congress is still in dilemma about its candidate for the same. If Congress is unable field a strong candidate from there, then it would become privilege for Vijayamma, who may very easily defeat Hari Babu, the less popular figure comparatively. So, if BJP is determined to win Vizag seat, then it should prefer Purandeswari than Hari Babu.

Cong. Leaders still jumping out

  It seems, even confirming tickets can’t stop Congress leaders quitting the party. At a time when hardly four days are left for filing nominations, the jumping-spree in Congress party still continues. Vellampalli Srinivas, despite getting party ticket to contest from his Vijayawada (west) constituency, jump the ship and joins BJP today morning. However, he has managed to get BJP ticket to contest from same constituency. Srinivas has won on Praja Rajyam ticket in the previous elections and joins Congress party after it was merged with it.   Another senior leader of Congress party and Ongole MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, who is also assured of ticket is leaving party today or tomorrow. He is joining TDP.

Kesineni Nani to meet Babu

  TDP Vijayawada Loksabha Candidate Kesineni Nani has rushed to Hyderabad on Sunday morning after hearing the reports about Pawan Kalyan insisting for Vijawada ticket to his close aide and film producer Potluri Varaprasad. He met Babu, but couldn’t talk in detail as he was in hurry to attend a public meeting at Maheshwaram. So, he decides to wait until Babu returns from his meeting to have an firm assurance from Chandrababu for his ticket.   Kesineni said that he is very confident that Vijayawada constituency Loksabha ticket will not be issued to anyone else as it was long ago promised to him by none other than Chandrababu himself. He also said that he will not compromise on his Loksabha seat. He said that not even party cadres will agree if the seat is allotted to a new comer, while setting aside party leader like him. He said that Chandrababu may not succumb to outside pressures on this matter. He flayed YSR Congress party for fielding Koneru Prasad, who was jailed for 10 months in Emmar scam. He said this is giving him edge over his rival, as people of the city prefer only a candidate with clean track record like him. He said TDP also should not entertain such candidates for his constituency. Kesineni Nani will discuss with Chandrababu tonight in detail about his seat.

Modi Meets Rajnikanth at Chennai

  BJP Prime Minister Candidate Narendra Modi has met Kollywood super star Rajnikanth at his residence in Chennai on Sunday evening and had a one-to-one meeting for around half an hour. Modi has requested him to support and campaign for his party. Rajnikanth has politely refused to join any campaigning program, but assured him of his support to BJP.   Later speaking to media Rajnikanth said “Modi is my well-wisher and I am his. He used to frequently call me, when I fall ill. So, when he arrives to Chennai, I took this opportunity to invite him to my home just as a friend. People are aware that he is efficient leader.”   There was mad rush of Rajni’s fans at his residence after media flashes the news about Modi’s plan to meet him at his residence. Later, Modi left for a public meeting to be held at Chennai.

Fresh troubles brews for Shankar rao

  Former Minister Shankar rao, who fails to secure party ticket despite constructing temple to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, got some fresh problems from none other than Governor Narasimhan. Governor has granted permission to CID for filing case against Shankar rao in connection with green Fields lands scam. Earlier, Shankar rao managed to escape from arrest on health grounds. Later, also he played the same trick when police summoned him for interrogation in connection with his allegations made against former DGP Dinesh Reddy. So, now wonder if he play the same trick again to escape from arrest.