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Ramachandraiah Demands SEBI Probe Into Jagan Companies

Congress MLC C Ramachandraiah has demanded an inquiry by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) into the investments made by various companies into the companies floated by Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. He also demanded a thorough inquiry into the companies owned by Jagan Mohan Reddy. He said he had written a letter to this effect to the SEBI chairman. Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, he said if the investors are public limited companies, than SEBI has to conduct the inquiry and if they are private limited, they should be inquired into under the Serious Frauds Inquiry Act. He also demanded an inquiry by the Law Board. He demanded how the companies had purchased share worth Rs 10 each for Rs 350. He also wondered why the investment and profits in the Jagan companies had not increased after the death of YS Rajasekhara Reddy. The Congress leader also found fault with Jagan denying his friendship with Gali Janardhan Reddy, Karnataka MLA and owner of Obulapuram Mining Company after the latter’s arrest. He said the day is not far when Jagan Mohan Reddy too will be put behind the bars. Congress leaders B Hariprasad and M Shankaraiah were also present.

SC Refuses to Restrain Centre on Telangana

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea to restrain Centre from carving out a separate Telanganga State saying it was "too premature" but sought response from the AP government and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) over concerns that normal life has been paralysed due to the agitation. "A commission (Justice Srikrishna) has been appointed. The Central government has not taken a decision this way or that way. How can we prevent the Union of India from taking a decision. Your prayer is premature," the court observed. Besides issuing notices to TRS, which is spearheading the stir, a bench of justices GS Singhvi and S Mukhopadhaya also sought replies from the registrar general of the high court and the state bar council that even judicial work had been disrupted. The apex court, however, turned down advocate PV Krishnaiah's plea seeking the court's direction to the Centre to restrain it from carving a new state out of Andhra Pradesh. Krishnaiah, who moved three PILs, had contended that the power to carve out a new state under Article 3 of the Constitution is vested with Parliament and the same cannot be done without amending Article 371-D which granted certain benefits of reservation in employment, education and other benefits to the locals. The apex court, however, wondered whether "extra-judicial forces" could bring normal life and court proceedings to a halt as part of the agitation. "We would like to examine whether governance can be brought to a halt by extra-judicial forces. Is it open to the bar council and advocates to disrupt the proceedings of the court," the bench queried. It asked the state government, Registrar General of the High Court and the Bar Council to file their affidavits withing 10 weeks.

Maoists on a Recruitment Drive

Despite Warangal proving a fertile ground for Maoists for the last four decades, they have witnessed a strong opposition to their activities from the police forces in the last decade. This has compelled them to shift their base to Chhattisgarh, decreasing their foothold in the region. Also, with intensified combing operations in the district, they have not recruited new Maoists into the party and have witnessed a series of encounters. Earlier Maoist forces existed in groups of tens and twenties but with encounters taking a toll on them, the number has plummeted to one or two. They are, however, paying secret visits to Warangal. Meanwhile, police opine that their activities have come down but they manage to make their presence felt by resorting to some sort of violence. As part of their activities, they had recently killed a BILT officer, Ramakrishna, in Kamalapuram village of Mangapeta mandal. The killing took place under the aegis of a committee monitoring operations in Khammam, Karimnagar and Warangal (KKW). According to police, Maoists are making arrangements to recruit new ones to into their party. The recruitments are being supervised by KKW member Bade Chokkarao alias Damodar, to expand the party activities in the three districts. However, police say that they are counter-checking Maoist activities and tracking the movements of those shuttling between Warangal and Chhatisgarh. They have also beefed up security in Maoist-affected areas while Greyhounds police have intensified combing operations in the forests of Karimnagar, Khammam and Warangal. After a fire exchange between Maoists and police in Chinnaboinapalli of Tadwai mandal on October 26, Damodar escaped but left his kit bag behind. Through the information obtained from material in his bag, police learnt that they have begun making arrangements for recruiting new Maoists into the forces. According to information received by the police, Damodar’s wife Urmila alias Sabita is supervising Maoist activities in Mahadevpur and Euturunagaram area. Police say that they have set up a separate team for recruiting new Maoists and they would be recruited through local organizing committees (in villages) which are coordinating with the KKW team. A police officer, under the condition of anonymity, said that they were aware of the preparations for the recruitment process and added that the police would impede their activities. “Recruitments have not begun yet,” the police officer revealed.

MLA Ramana Murthy Raju Slaps Man at Rachabanda

Even before the dust on Congress MLA Jaggareddy's brash behaviour could settle, another ruling party MLA landed himself in trouble by allegedly slapping the son of a former TDP sarpanch at a Rachabanda programme on Friday. Yalamanchili MLA, U V Ramana Murthy Raju, alias Kanna Babu, slapped Appala Raju, son of former TDP sarpanch Nagireddy Suryanarayana, with a chappal when the latter questioned the government's failure to keep its promises made during the first phase of Rachabanda. This unsavoury incident took place in Cheemalapalli in Achyutapuram mandal. The MLA later clarified that he only pushed an agitated Raju and denied slapping him. Raju complained that it was only the Congress workers who were getting the benefits of Rachabanda, whereas, workers of other parties are denied any sops. He alleged that the authorities were not issuing ration cards to the poor. Upset over these remarks, Kanna Babu lost his cool. He stepped down from the dais and pushed Raju aside. Police personnel tried to stop the MLA but he pushed Raju after slapping him hard with the chappal. He shouted at Raju saying that he would not keep quiet if people keep throwing mud on the government. Even as tempers ran high, police intervened and sent Raju away. The TDP workers raised slogans against the MLA and alleged that the he slapped their man. Police said that they have not seen the MLA using the chappal, but agreed that they have seen Raju being pushed by him. Sangareddy MLA Jagga Reddy was arrested and released recently for slapping a man at a Rachabanda programme in Sadashivpet in Medak district on November 5

Supreme Court Notice to AP Govt on Telangana Agitation

The Supreme Court of India today (11-11-11) issued a notice to Andhra Pradesh government seeking its reply on a plea contending that normal activities and administration in the state have been paralysed for the last one year due to the agitation for a separate state of Telangana. Besides issuing notices to Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which is spearheading the stir, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S Mukhopadhaya also issued notices to the registrar general of the high court and the state bar council and sought their replies on the plea. The supreme court issued notices on advocate PV Krishnaiah's plea, seeking the court's direction to the Centre to restrain it from carving a new state out of Andhra Pradesh. The plea contends that normal activities and administration in the state have been paralysed for the last one year. Krishnaiah had contended that the power to carve out a new state under Article 3 of the Constitution is vested with Parliament and the same cannot be done without amending Article 371-D which granted certain benefits of reservation in employment, education and other benefits to the locals. According to the petitioner, apart from normal life being paralysed, courts too, except the high court were not functioning properly due to the stir and that many government employees, including police personnel, had joined the stir. The public interest litigation submitted that the agitation in the form of 'rasta roko', 'rail roko' and disruption of work at the public sector Singareni Collieries Limited is causing colossal loss of public money, besides violating Fundamental Rights of the citizens under Articles 14 (Equality) and 21 (Liberty) of the Constitution. Video Source: snehatv.com

SAIL Proposes to Replace Gali's Brahmani Steels

The Public sector company, Steel Authority of India Ltd., (SAIL) has come forward to set up an integrated steel project in place of Brahmani Steels promoted by former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy, who is currently in jail facing CBI charges for illegal mining activities. During the tenure of late YS Rajasekhar Reddy as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Bhramani Steels had proposed to develop a 2.5-million tonne, Rs 4,430-crore steel plant at Kadapa, the native district of YSR. In 2007, it was allotted iron ore mines and 14,700 acres for the project. However, at a later date, the state government served show-cause notices on Brahmani for inordinate delays in executing the project. SAIL chairman and managing director Chandra Shekher Verma told over phone from Russia, where he is accompanying steel minister Beni Prasad Verma and a team comprising chiefs of state-owned steel firms, that "SAIL had conveyed its interest to the principal secretary of government of AP. The size of plant and investment would depend upon feasibility study." T S Appa Rao, principal secretary, industries and commerce also confirmed the same saying "SAIL has approached us to set up an integrated steel project in place of Brahmani Steels. They have sought land and iron ore mines to take up the project. We are examining the proposal."

11-11-11 Date: 2G Scam Trial Begins Today

The date 11-11-11 is being publicised all over the world as a special date in many ways. It can't be said whether all the significance attributed to this date is true, but for some people in India, it is definitely going to be a significant day. The trial in the 2G spectrum allocation case is beginning today (11November 2011) in a special court at New Delhi. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge OP Saini had earlier ordered the trial to commence on this day with all the accused declining to plead guilty to various offences. All the 14 individuals accused in the case are in judicial custody at Tihar jail. The charges have been framed against all the 17 accused including former telecom minister A. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and three corporate entities. While framing charges, the judge observed that there was prima facie evidence against Raja, his former private secretary RK Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura. The judge said evidence was also there against Reliance Telecom, Swan Telecom and Unitech (Tamil Nadu) Wireless. He said CBI had also given evidence to frame charges against three corporate executives of Reliance Group. Others against whom charges have been framed are Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, his cousin Asif Balwa, their colleague Rajeev Agarwal, Unitech Ltd's Sanjay Chandra and DB Realty's Vinod Goenka. The judge said there was also a prima facie evidence for framing charges against Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar and Cineyug founder Karim Morani. The CBI, in its first chargesheet filed on April 2, had charged Raja and others with criminal conspiracy and causing a huge loss to the exchequer by allocating spectrum to ineligible operators. Video Source: newsxlive

High Court Orders For Assets Report Of DGP Dinesh Reddy

The Andhra Pradesh High Court, which took up the hearing of the petition of senior IPS officer Umesh Kumar against present DGP V Dinesh Reddy, ordered the government to submit details of asstets of the DGP and his wife. Earlier Umesh Kumar sought the court for a CBI probe into the forgery case in which Sunil Reddy, the accused, allegedly told the police that he had used the letterhead of a former MP and forged his signature at the behest of Umesh Kumar. The letter purportedly urged the Centre to order a probe into certain land transactions involving DGP Dinesh Reddy's wife. After hearing the both sides today, the court sought assets report of Dinesh Reddy couple from the government. Video Source: snehatv.com

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After CBI, ED Summons YS Jagan Mohan Reddy

Kadapa MP and YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was last week called by CBI for questioning in connection with the alleged Obulapuram Mining Company's multi-crore iron ore mining scam. Now the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which had registered a case against him under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has summoned him. The ED is also probing alleged contravention of foreign exchange rules in his financial transactions and investments, said the sources. The ED has asked Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, to send an authorised person who has his power of attorney to submit documents and answer questions on his behalf at its headquarters in Delhi on or before November 28. The case was registered after ED conducted a probe to trail the funds pumped by the Kadapa MP and his associates into the companies owned by them

TN Governor Releases Spiritual Book: Sripada Manjeeralu

Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam's (TTD) senior employee Mr. D V Subba Rao, who is also an accomplished writer, has authored a book titled "Sripada Manjeeralu". This book has been written on Hindu religious lineage of Vaishnavaya Acharya Purushas. The book, Sripada Manjeeralu, reflects the glory of the hierarchy of great vaishnava teachers of Hindu religion. Hon'ble Governor of Tamil Nadu Sri K Rosaiah garu (also was former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh) has released the book at a function held at Tirupathi on 06-11-2011. The book has been well received by the critics and acclaimed as the one that is worth keeping in personal library. For more details and the book, it's author can be contacted on Phone: D V Subba Rao, +919160053535.

Court Orders to Book Minister Shankar Rao For Forgery

State textiles minister P Shankar Rai is again in trouble. Based on a petition filed by a plot owners’ association in the city, a local court on Wednesday directed the Neredmet police to book a criminal case against the minister. The direction came on a petition filed in Oct 2011 by S Chandrasekhar of Green Fields plot owners association in the X Metropolitan Magistrate, Malkajgiri, alleging that the minister had misused his position to grab 72 acres (Survey No.: 373, 375, 376, 378, 379 and 386) in Kanajiguda village in Malkajgiri mandal by forging documents to claim that it belonged to his father Yedla Achaiah. The minister has been booked under IPC sections 120-B (Criminal conspiracy), 197(Knowingly issuing a false certificate)\, 420 (Cheating), 468 (Forgery for cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document) and 506 (Criminal intimidation). When contacted, Neredmet inspector Venkat Reddy said they were yet to receive the court order.

Miscreants Trying to Whip up Communal Passions

Thanks to the all round development of Hyderabad, the city didn't witness incidents of communal riots for the past two decades. Reports are coming in since couple of days that a miscreant group is trying to whip up communal passions again in the city. A particular organisation is under the scanner of the Hyderabad police for carrying out the offences, which appear to be preplanned. Seemingly a deliberate attempt to whip up communal passions, three persons belonging to one particular community were stabbed and attacked with rods in two separate incidents in Bowenpally and Kacheguda police limits on Tuesday night. A worried police top brass has launched a manhunt. The three victims had to be hospitalised. Bowenpally police inspector G Srinivas said two persons were critically injured after a few unidentified persons attacked them in separate incidents. Incidentally both the victims were going to Balanagar from Secunderabad on their two wheelers when they came under attack. The incident took place around 12.30 am. Police said one of them suffered injuries on his back and neck and he was admitted to a hospital in Balanagar. Both happen to be the residents of Fatehnagar. Based on the complaint lodged by the victims, Bowenpally police registered a case under Section 307 IPC and investigation is on. In another incident, one person, belonging to a particular community suffered injuries when unidentified persons attacked him at Nimboliadda in Kacheguda police station limits. Kacheguda police inspector B Koteswara Rao said that unidentified persons attacked the 23 year old man. The incident took place at Nimboliadda and the victim, a resident of Malakpet was going to Kacheguda when he was attacked. He suffered bleeding injuries and shifted to nearby hospital. Kacheguda police registered a case and investigation is on.

TDP MLAs Joining TRS: MLAs Deny Media Reports

It was reported in a section of media that some TDP MLAs are going to join TRS party in a day or two. The reports said, TDP MLAs Hanumanth Rao Shinde from Jukkal, Suddala Devaiah from Karimnagar, Jayapal Yadav from Kalwakurthi and P Ramulu from Atchampet held a secret meeting with TRS president KCR on Tuesday and offered to join the TRS. However, 3 MLAs Hanumanth Rao shinde, Suddala devaiah and Jayapal Yadav have denied the reports, while Jukkal MLA Ramulu was not present at the media conference giving room for media to speculate that he may join the TRS. Speaking to media, Hanumanth Rao Shinde said "We will not leave TDP under any circumstances and there is no question of joining the TRS or any other party." TRS in recent times has been targeting the congress and TDP MLAs and trying to woo them into its fold to go for by elections and increase its numbers in the assembly in the name of T agitation. Initially, four TDP MLAs Ramesh Rao, Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy, Gampa Govardhan and Jogu Ramanna had quit TDP and joined the TRS. Later three congress MLAs including the former Minister Jupally Krishna Rao have recently joined the TRS. Video Source: snehatv.com

The Homecoming of Jagan Camp MLAs

According to reliable sources, it is said that some YS Jagan Mohan Reddy loyalist MLAs are planning a 'homecoming' to their parent party, the Congress. Sources say, the CBI case against Jagan in the Obulapuram mining case and the investigations into his illegal assets have rattled his party, the YSR Congress. The 26 MLAs, since their resignations have not been accepted yet, they still continue to be Congress MLAs technically. They can always withdraw their resignations and come back to the Party. According to informed sources, seven MLAs loyal to Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy met here on Monday and discussed the proposal of rejoining into Congress party. After a meeting which lasted around two hours, the MLAs are believed to have decided to rejoin the Congress party. Government Whip Kondru Murali said that few MLAs, who had resigned from the Congress and their Assembly membership, have "sent" a word to the Pradesh Congress Committee about their intention to rejoin the party. However, Mr Murali said there is no information on the exact number and the names of MLAs. "Not only the MLAs who have aligned with Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, but two more MLAs who had switched sides to the TRS recently, Mr Jupally Krishna Rao and Mr Tadikonda Rajaiah, also wish to come back to the Congress," he added. It is said, the MLAs feel they are being ignored in their constituencies and the ministers have been moving around launching developmental programs. They also feel they would face a threat to their political existence if the PCC appoints in-charges in their constituencies. However, according to some other sources, the Jagan loyalist MLAs will part ways with YSR Congress only if he is arrested. And many of them are of the view that such a situation is unlikely to happen at this juncture. PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana, who was in regular contact with the MLAs, is said to have spoken to them and assured them they will be treated well in the party.

Ex-minister Sriramulu meets Janardhana Reddy in jail

Former Karnataka minister B. Sriramulu Tuesday met his mentor and former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad to seek his advice on contesting the forthcoming assembly by-elections from Bellary. Sriramulu, who resigned as member of Karnataka assembly in September after he was denied cabinet berth in the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministry in the state, met Janardhana Reddy, who is cooling his heels in Chanchalguda Central Jail in an illegal mining case. He was accompanied by MP from Raichur, Sanna Fakirappa, who is also a close associate of Janardhana Reddy. Sriramulu told reporters outside the jail after the meeting that he would go by the advice of Janardhana Reddy on contesting the Nov 30 by-elections. He said that he will be filing his nomination papers tomorrow at Bellary. However, he did not spell out whether he would contest as an independent or a BJP candidate. Video Source: snehatv.com

Gali Janardhan Reddy is a VIP Now

Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy is currently lodged in Chanchalguda jail facing CBI charges of irregularities in ther Obulapuram mines owned by him. Till now he and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy were treated as commoners and were sharing a common cell with other prisoners. Though he petitioned the court twice earlier to grant him special category, but the court refused to do so both the times. Janardhan Reddy petitioned again third time today, which the special CBI court at Nampally took into consideration. The court finally granted special category prisoners status for him and his brother-in-law. Now both of them will be shifted to special cell. From now onwards, they need not share the common food served to the prisoners. They can as well have non-veg food also along with some other amenities provided to the VIP prisoners.

Saraiah, Ponnala Venture Homecoming After 2 Months

After a gap of nearly two months, two ministers of the AP state, Basavaraju Saraiah and Ponnala Laxmaiah would be coming down to their native Warangal district for the launch of Rachabanda programme in the third week of November. It's not that the state ministers were so busy elsewhere that they couldn't visit their respective constituencies, but it was the fear of baclash from Telangana activists that has stopped them. The pro-Telangana protagonists were demanding resignations from the ministers in support of separate Telangana. Sources said Ponnala and Saraiah are likely to launch Rachabanda in their respective Jangaon and Warangal East constituencies on November 14. Following angry protests from T activists, Rachabanda has not yet been launched in the district, although it was launched on November 2 in other parts of the state. Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah seems to have been a bit luckier than his colleague Basavaraju Saraiah. While Ponnala was away touring in foreign countries, Saraiah faced the heat from T protesters in Adilabad district, on Friday last. Several youths threatened to commit suicide during last Rachabanda and gheraoed Saraiah at several places. Rachabanda programme was a failure in the district, last year. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was booed down by women and Kakatiya University students at a Rachabanda meeting at Rayinigudem village in Mulugu mandal during the first phase.

Gandhian Shambhu Dutt Regrets For Trusting Team Anna

94 year old Gandhian Shambhu Dutt, the general secretary of Gandhian Seva and Satyagraha Brigade, is the one who along with his five colleagues was the first to sit on fast-unto-death on January 30 last year over the Lokpal issue. Dutt, ended his fast-unto-death after Team Anna promised to shoulder the campaign. Dutt says, he now regrets his decision to hand over his fight to Anna Hazare and his core committee of "yes men". "Kiran Bedi and Swami Agnivesh came to us and pleaded to end our protest saying they will carry forward the protest. In retrospect, I think we should not have called off the protest. We were more sincere in our determination," Dutt told. Slamming Team Anna, he said the core committee members were "insubstantial". "Team Anna and particularly Arvind Kejriwal has lost the credibility in the eyes of those who know the inside story. The core committee is full of all yes men and there is no substance in the committee. The excesses and transgresses will prove to be undoing of Hazare's campaign," he claimed. Terming Hazare's threat to campaign against Congress in poll-bound states as "childish", he said, "Hazare keeps changing his stand. Earlier he said he would not oppose Congress. He should have waited to see what kind of bill the government is proposing before Parliament." Dutt's organisation has submitted a memorandum on Lokpal issue to the Parliamentary Standing Committee and has rejected several proposals of the Jan Lokpal Bill. "We supported Hazare's corruption campaign but we have objections to some of the provisions in the Jan Lokpal bill," he said.

TRS, TDP Set Eyes on Vacant Mahboobnagar Seat

In recent times, Mahboobnagar district has been in news for two things. One is for the sudden death of the sitting independent MLA of Mahboobnagar assembly constituency N Rajeswar Reddy and the other one is former minister from the district, Kollapur Congress MLA Jupalli Krishna Rao quitting the Congress and joining the TRS party. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi after grabbing the Banswada Assembly seat from Telugu Desam Party and wooing MLAs from other parties, is now eying the Mahbubnagar Assembly constituency. According to sources, as the family of Rajeshwar Reddy is not ready to join the TRS, the party is said to be toying with the idea of neutralizing the sympathy for the family by fielding well-known TEJAC leader K Srinivas Goud as its candidate. Mahbubnagar district, which till recently was outside the influence of the TRS, is slowly turning into a fortress for the party. After TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao won the MP seat from Mahbubnagar, the party has been able to woo many influential leaders from other parties. The first to join the party was former BJP MP Jitender Reddy, who brought into the party a large number of BJP cadre. Recently, another influential leader and former minister Jupalli Krishna Rao joined the TRS after quitting the Congress. The names of at least two TDP MLAs are doing the rounds as the next possible migrants to the TRS. The TRS had initially wooed Rajeshwar Reddy's widow Vijayalakshmi into its fold with the offer of supporting her candidature. In its attempts to build rapport with Vijayalakshmi, K Kavita, daughter of KCR, met Vijayalakshmi to express her condolences. Even though no politics was said to have been discussed at the meeting, sources said the sole purpose of the meeting was to woo her into TRS. But with that failing, the TSR is holding out the threat of fielding TEJAC leader Srinivas Goud from the constituency. However, according to Congress circles, Vijayalakshmi would contest the elections as the Congress candidate or as an independent backed by the ruling party. On the other hand, Telugu Desam Party is also eying the vacant seat with an intention to regain its hold on the district. TDP has almost lost its ground in the district with its senior most leader Dr. N Janardhan Reddy quitting the party along with a couple of MLAs and two more reportedly on way out. According to TDP sources the party is on the lookout for a suitable candidate to be fielded from the Mahbubnagar seat.

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