Telangana polls : ‘Vote TRS for corruption-free govt’

The former legislator invited 60 youngsters and women into party. He asserted that the widespread support to the pink party indicated the performance of the TRS-led government.

Nadipelli Diwakar Rao, TRS candidate from Mancherial Assembly constituency, requested the electors to vote for the party to form corruption-free government. He led a poll rally in ward number seven in Mancherial on Sunday.

Diwakar Rao stated that the TRS government had introduced several innovate schemes and taken up creation of irrigation projects like never before. He requested the electors to cast their votes in favour of his candidature to see K Chandrashekhar Rao as Chief Minister for the second time. He added that he would strive hard for developing the town on many facets if elected again.

The former legislator invited 60 youngsters and women into party. He asserted that the widespread support to the pink party indicated the performance of the TRS-led government. He urged the party activists to spread awareness over welfare schemes and development witnessed in the State.

Municipal chairperson M Vasundhara, vice-chairperson Nalla Shankar, counselor of ward number seven Baggani Ravi, Women and Child Welfare Department’s Mancherial regional director Atthili Saroja, leaders of the party Sudamalla Harikrishna, Panuganti Srinivas, Pudari Prabhakar, Arigela Rajeshwam, Vemulapalli Satyam were among many others who attended the programme.

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Telangana Polls : Electricians back TRS

Electricians from Lingojiguda division joined TRS in the presence of party candidate Muddagauni Rammohan Goud here on Sunday. Muddagauni assured them that he would strive hard for the welfare schemes introduced by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to the downtrodden. He also said that issues mentioned in recently announced partial manifesto, like increments in unemployment allowances, Rythu Bandhu, accident insurance policy to workers, Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak schemes, are useful to the public.

Corporator Mudraboina Srinivasa Rao said that Rammohan will always be available to people in the constituency. He appealed to them to vote for the car symbol in the December elections. Rajinikanth, Raja Reddy, Vishnu, Ravinder Reddy, Swamy, Krishna, Chari, Pandarinath, Srinu, Mallesh, Yadaiah, Raju, Nagi Reddy, Chenna Reddy, Shabbir, Ashok Goud, Siva Reddy, Giri, Rajesh and Party leaders V Shravan Kumar Gupta, Ravinder Reddy, Bhaskar Reddy, Indraji, Prabhu, Nandikanti Shekar, P Sridhar, Siva Goud and G Srinivas Kuruma were present.

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Telangana Elections: TRS announces candidates for Malakpet and Zaheerabad

With this, the TRS has announced 107 candidates for the 119-member Assembly. The remaining 12 candidates are also expected to be named soon.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Sunday announced the names of two more party candidates for the Malakpet and Zaheerabad Assembly constituencies for the upcoming state elections.

The decision was taken by senior TRS leaders after a meeting of all candidates with caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday. While Chava Satish Kumar has been picked for Malakpet, K Manik Rao will contest from Zaheerabad on the TRS flag.

With this, the TRS has announced 107 candidates for the 119-member Assembly. The remaining 12 candidates are also expected to be named soon.

On September 6, KCR and his cabinet passed a resolution to dissolve the Assembly which came into effect after Governor ESL Narasimhan approved it. On the same day, almost all sitting legislators of the TRS were given a ticket to contest the polls yet again.

Only two MLAs were not given a ticket again — the Chennur seat in Mancherial district and Andole in Sangareddy district. “In five places, some discussion is still needed, so the candidates have not been announced yet. This includes Medchal, Malkajgiri, Choppadandi, Vikarabad and Warangal East,” KCR had said.

KCR himself has decided to recontest from his present seat at Gajwel, while his son and IT Minister KT Rama Rao will contest again from Sircilla constituency. Irrigation Minister Harish Rao retained his nomination for the seat from Siddipet.

While the TRS won 63 seats out of the total 119 in the legislative assembly during the 2014 elections, it presently has close to 90 MLAs in its party following a series of defections. In what could be seen as a gamble, many defectors have managed to retain their ticket and will contest the same seats, this time under the TRS banner.

Meanwhile, a team from the Central Election Commission is all set to visit Telangana on Monday and review poll preparedness of the state for the elections to be held on December 7.

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Telangana people won’t vote for Congress’: KTR hits back at Rahul Gandhi

IT minister KT Rama Rao slammed Rahul Gandhi for criticising the TRS party at Bhainsa and Kamareddy public meetings on Saturday and asked the AICC chief to read up on the history before addressing a public meeting.

Terming Rahul’s words as lies at a press meet in Telangana Bhavan, Rao refuted the allegations of removing Dr BR Ambedkar for Pranahita-Chevella project in the pretext of redesigning it. He also said that the project is being constructed aiming to provide water to erstwhile Adilabad district and the TRS government has not increased its cost to Rs 1 lakh.

KTR also said that the ruling party has not shown any favouritism to any party like Congress party, which targetted Muslim community for their votes. Recalling the attacks on Sikhs in 1984, KTR lambasted Rahul saying that he does not have any right to speak about minorities.

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TRS manifesto : To benefit over 1.2 cr more people in addition to current 1.5 cr in State

Reaching out to the unreached, the TRS manifesto, unveiled by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, has targeted direct benefit to over 1.2 crore more people in the State.

This will be in addition to about 1.5 crore beneficiaries who had already been reaping the benefits under the multiple State-sponsored schemes. With much more expected from the final manifesto due to be released after Dasara, the TRS, thanks to its strong loyalty enjoyed by the State’s electorate, stands in great advantage over its rivals in the run-up to the polls.

The projected total population of Telangana is about 3.8 crore as per 2018 estimations of the Election Commission of India.

Chief Minister and TRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday announced 10 major schemes revealing partial manifesto of the TRS. Notable among them are farm loan waiver, unemployment dole, relaxation of age limit for old-age pensions, honorarium for Rythu Samanvaya Samithis (RSS) members, double bedroom houses, subsidised loans for women Self Help Groups (SHGs) for setting up food processing units, among others.

Loan waiver
Nearly 45.5 lakh of 72 lakh-odd farmers availed crop loans and around 42 lakh farmers obtained loans of less than Rs 1 lakh. The Chief Minister announced that the TRS government will waive all these loans. Further, about 49.49 lakh farmers in the State are already benefiting from Rythu Bandhu benefits and the TRS party has promised to enhance input assistance under the scheme from Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 per acre, per annum. Farmers who are members of Rythu Samanvaya Samithis numbering 1.62 lakh will also receive honorariums.

Under the social welfare schemes, the decision to hike Aasara pensions from Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,016 for differently-abled persons and from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,016 for other beneficiaries would directly benefit nearly 40 lakh existing beneficiaries. In addition, another 8 lakh people will benefit from the old-age pensions following relaxation of age limit from 65 years to 57 years proposed by the TRS after returning to power.

In-depth research
The TRS Manifesto Committee worked out the schemes after in-depth study of the government records and the Integrated Household Survey (IHHS) conducted by the State government among others. As per the IHHS estimations, there are about 11-12 lakh unemployed youth in the State who will now benefit from the unemployment dole scheme (Rs 3,016 per month). Similarly, around 8.25 lakh families from poor families are in need of houses under the double-bedroom housing scheme. The TRS government’s plans to facilitate establishment of at least one food processing unit for every two Assembly constituencies, is also likely to benefit at around 2-3 lakh women of 70 lakh members of women SHGs.

As per government records, the TRS government has extended welfare benefits to about 1.5 crore individuals directly, where about 45 per cent of the State population had benefited from a minimum of three TRS government programmes. In many cases, the individuals have reaped benefits of 15 government schemes.

In fact, individual beneficiaries of various government programmes when tallied, total up to a massive 6,92,46,598, which is nearly twice the 3.8 crore population in the State. The State government is estimated to have pumped in a whopping Rs 2,18,377 crore into these 40 major schemes and programmes in the last four and half years.

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Farm loan waiver to increase in Rythu Bandhu incentive: TRS releases partial manifesto

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday announced a basic outline of its manifesto for the upcoming elections in the state, with caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao holding a three-hour long meeting with the party’s Manifesto Committee at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, KCR said, “We discussed several issues pertaining to the people. We took into consideration what the people want and what their main demands were. Instead of looking for votes, we took a rational approach and saw what the need of the hour is. Whatever we promise, we will fulfill.”

Highlighting the achievements of his government, he also lashed out at opposition parties, saying, “Whatever people say, we are the ones who fought for Telangana.”

For farmers, KCR said that the TRS would waive off agricultural loans worth Rs 1 lakh while adding that it would increase the incentive under the ‘Rythu Bandhu’ scheme to Rs 10,000 per acre of land. A recently-launched flagship scheme of the government, Rythu Bandhu gives farmers an incentive of Rs 4,000 for each acre of land as investment for the crop.

The TRS also promised to promote food processing units with the help of subsidies, which it claimed will also indirectly help farmers. “To stop adulteration, we’ll engage women in the food processing industry. Every constituency will have a food processing unit,” KCR said.

Speaking about the Aasara Pension scheme, a welfare scheme which provides pension to certain sections of the society, KCR said that close to 40 lakh people were already benefiting under the programme. “We’ll decrease the age limit to 57. This will result in 8 lakh more people getting added to the scheme. The cost will increase, but we will bear it. Pension amount will also increase from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,016. Meanwhile, for people with disabilities, the amount will be increased to Rs 3,016 from Rs 1,500,” KCR said.

The caretaker CM also said that a ‘growth engine’ would be established for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people in the state and an amount of Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore for the same. He also assured that a corporation would be set up for the Reddy and Vyshya community.

He also said that after further discussion, the TRS would come out with a more detailed manifesto.

The state Legislative Assembly was dissolved on September 6 after Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan accepted a recommendation by the state cabinet. Immediately after meeting the Governor, KCR met with reporters at Telangana Bhavan on the same day and released a list of 105 TRS candidates. What was especially seen as a political gamble, was the party chief’s decision to renominate almost all sitting MLAs.

While the TRS won 63 seats out of the total 119 in the Legislative Assembly during the 2014 elections, it presently has close to 90 MLAs in its party after a series of defections. There has been some infighting within the party since the announcement of the candidates, and KCR’s son and caretaker Minister KT Rama Rao has been put in charge internally to pacify all agitated leaders.

The elections for the 119-member Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be held on December 7 and the counting will take place on December 11.

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Swami Paripoornananda Joins BJP, May Campaign In Telangana Elections

Swami Paripoornananda, head of Sree Peetham mutt, joined the BJP today in the presence of party president Amit Shah. He is likely to be a key face of the BJP in the two Telugu speaking states in India – Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. His entry is particularly significant given the upcoming Assembly elections in Telangana.

Reports suggest he is interested in contesting from Telangana either in the state polls or in the 2019 general election.

“I am happy to be part of this party…I am grateful to BJP president Amit Shah and Ram Madhav ji. I will follow them and work,” he said after being welcomed into the party by Amit Shah and BJP general secretary Ram Madhav

“I will work 24*7. I need nothing because Telugu people have given me a lot. I come here as a karmachari (worker) and will remain a karmayogi (one who desires nothing for his work),” Swami Paripoornananda said at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi.

Swami Paripoornananda, often described as the “Yogi Adityanath of the south”, was banned from Hyderabad for six months in July for allegedly making provocative statements. The Hyderabad High Court suspended the ban in August.

Though his Mutt is located in Kakinada in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, he has a significant following in Telangana as well.

Earlier this year, Swami Paripoornananda had demanded the arrest of Telugu actor and movie critic Kathi Mahesh over his alleged statements against Hindu deities and said he had “hurt” Hindu sentiment.

“It is a day of joy for the BJP because Swami Paripoornananda has joined the party. He has contributed immensely in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and all the southern states in the fields of social work, religion and public awakening…Earlier his blessings were with us, now he is with us himself,” Amit Shah said, welcoming Swami Paripoornananda into the party.

“We expect that his joining the party will benefit the BJP across the south, especially in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. I believe his entry will energise the party in the Telangana elections and increase our chances of victory,” the BJP president added.

TRS leaders carry out door-to-door campaign in Yellareddy

Zaheerabad MP BB Patil and Yellareddy TRS candidate Enugu Ravinder Reddy jointly conducted a door-to-door campaign in Mallupet village in Yellareddy constituency.

The villagers welcomed them into the village with ‘harathi’. Zaheerabad MP BB Patil said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was striving hard for achieving Bangaru Telangana. He had been going all out to provide safe drinking water through Mission Bhagiratha scheme besides developing roads, providing 24-hour power to the agriculture sector, issuing pensions to various categories of people — widows, elderly, beedi workers and single women. He said the State government, for the benefit of farmers, was providing Rs 8,000 financial assistance per acre per year, issuing Rs 5 lakh worth insurance and also constructing Kaleshwaram and other irrigation projects.

Besides this, the State government had been implementing 465 other schemes for the benefit of the people. Patil asked the people of Yellareddy to once again give a chance to TRS candidate Enugu Ravinder Reddy, keeping all these schemes in mind. Ravinder Reddy said Telangana people had only faced hardships in the regimes of the Congress and the TDP. The development achieved by the TRS government in the last four and a half years is more than that of the 60-year rule by the Congress and the TRS. He requested the people to give a clear mandate to the TRS for the bright future of the State.

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praja ashirvada sabha Live :TRS public meeting at Wanaparthy today

After Husnabad, Nizamabad and Nalgonda, the ruling TRS party is organising another public meeting today at Wanaparthy of Mahabubnagar district.

TRS leaders of Mahabubnagar has been entrusted with the task of overseeing the arrangements at the venue.

The Praja Ashirwada Sabha is learned to be held at Nagavaram in a 100 acres of open land. Around 600 acres has been allocated to the parking of vehicles. A helipad is arranged at a distance of 200 metres from the venue.

At least 3,00,000 people are expected to attend the meeting. Three superintendents of police, 27 CIs, 63 SIs and 1500 staff are deployed at the meeting.