Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali hopeful of TRS victory

Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali while inaugurating a new TRS party office in Mahbubnagar on Monday expressed hope and re-affirmed confidence that the TRS will win the next elections with thumping majority and continue to carry forward the good work initiated by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

While speaking on the occasion Mahmood Ali said that the TRS government had initiated various welfare and development programmes and achieved more success in just 4 years compared to the development done by the erstwhile governments in the past 60 years.

He pointed out that CM KCR is committed and dedicated to make the state a Golden Telangana. “The Congress party leaders have been deceiving the people and are losing hope among the people and do not have their patronage,” said Mahmood Ali while expressing confidence that TRS will win the upcoming elections.

He also said that the Congress party does not have courage to defeat the TRS and formed Mahakutami and now making unnecessary allegations. He also lamented that the Congress party and their allies even till date have failed to declare MLA contestants in the State and are in a helpless state.

Adding further, Dr. C. Laxma Reddy, caretaker Health Minister hoped that the people of Telangana are with TRS party and he also made it clear the people do not believe the opposition parties’ false propaganda as they are creating hurdles in the way of development.

He also urged the people to support the pink party and support the TRS aspirants in the district. Srinivas Goud, MLA Mahbubnagar, TRS district president Badmi Shiva Kumar and others took part in the programme.

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EC team visits Telangana to review poll preparedness

An 11-member high-level team led by Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat is on a three-day visit to Hyderabad to review poll preparedness in Telangana.

On the first day of its visit, the EC team held interactions with representatives of political parties.

It held separate meetings with the representatives of all recognised political parties, including BJP, BSP, CPI, CPI(M), Congress, MIM, TDP and TRS.

The Commission will also hold a crucial meeting with the District Electoral Officers and Police Superintendents to review the arrangements in detail.

The team will also meet senior officials of Income Tax, Excise, and Enforcement agencies besides transport, railway and airport authorities before leaving for Delhi on Wednesday.

Telangana is scheduled to go to polls on 7 December.

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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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TRS to set up back-end offices for polls

Candidates of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for the upcoming assembly polls have been asked by the party high command to set up back-end offices for better coordination and assessment of the campaigning in every assembly segment, as part of their preparation.

The directive was issued on Sunday to all the 105 candidates whose names have been declared out of 119 assembly seats after a nearly five-hour-long meeting of the TRS in Hyderabad.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Telangana caretaker deputy chief minister and senior TRS leader Kadiam Srihari said candidates have been asked to avoid wasting time and to also avoid even a day’s break before the polls, slated for 7 December.

Srihari said about 60% of voters in each of the 119-assembly seats are in support of the TRS. “KCR (present caretaker chief minister and TRS president) will address about four to five meetings in each of the assembly constituencies in the coming days,” he added.

The caretaker deputy chief minister also said candidates should meet all beneficiaries of government schemes introduced by the earlier TRS government and added the party will start heavy campaigning in the districts of Khammam, Warangal and Karimnagar in the coming days. Srihari was also confident that his party would win about 100 of the 119 assembly seats in the coming polls.

A day before the meeting on Saturday, the TRS also held another meeting to discuss the party’s social media strategy and chalk out a plan, informed a TRS functionary who did not want to be quoted.

He said there is a feeling within the party that its online presence is a little weak, and needs to be improved. Elections in Telangana, which were earlier supposed to be held in April-May 2019, are scheduled for 7 December. The results will be announced on 11 December along with four other states.

The polls were advanced by six months after Rao called for dissolving the assembly on 6 September, citing “political fragility”.

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TRS will sweep Telangana Elections 2018-Survey Reports

According to survey reports by C- Voter, Times Now and ITTech Group and other agencies, CM K Chandrashekhar Rao and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is all set to win the 2018 elections. Most survey reports predict a clear win for the TRS and that they would sweep the Telangana assembly elections for the second time. Among the five states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana that are getting ready for November-December 2018 elections, Congress is likely to win in two states and this could see the resurgence of Congress Party in the Lok Sabha elections as well.

Telangana: Out of the 119 assembly seats two surveys conducted separately by former Congress MP Lagadapati Rajgopal’s Flash Team and VDA Associates predict that the TRS would win 85 seats Out of the 119 assembly seats, Congress would get 18 seats, MIM would retain their 7 seats, while the BJP and other parties might win 4 seats.

Coming back to the state of Telangana 44 to 48 per cent favoured the TRS, while 30 to 34 per cent said they would vote for the Congress. 7 to 9 per cent of the respondents said they would vote for the BJP, while only 2 per cent said their vote was for the TDP which means a clear win for the TRS in its second innings at the polls.

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Telangana at forefront in healthcare: KTR

Minister KT Rama Rao says State government spending Rs 7,000 crore annually; praises Health Minister for his efforts

Hyderabad: The Telangana government was at the forefront of providing such healthcare, which has not been done by the public sector in the country, to the people of the State, Minister KT Rama Rao said on Sunday.

Addressing a meeting of Ayush doctors in the city, Rama Rao said the endeavour of TRS, in the future, would be to build on the work done so far with regard to healthcare and further provide improved and better medical services to the people.

A large number of Ayurveda, Unani and Homoeopathy doctors from different districts of the State attended the ‘Ayush Doctors with KTR’ meeting. Rama Rao in his address, which touched upon the various path-breaking healthcare initiatives of the Telangana government, said the State was spending Rs 7,000 crore a year on healthcare.

He also heaped praise on Health Minister Dr C Laxma Reddy under whose stewardship, medical services and facilities in Telangana practically leapfrogged on several fronts. It was the vision of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao who wanted top-of-the-range medical care to be made available even to the poor and Dr Laxma Reddy worked hard to make this happen, Rama Rao said.

For instance, Area hospitals in the State did not have intensive care units. The previous governments were insensitive to the health needs of the people until Laxma Reddy became Health Minister. Not just that, many hospitals also now have neo-natal ICUs, he said.

Similarly, the credit for starting blood banks at hospitals across the State goes to the Health Department and TRS government. Among the facilities that were created were also the 40 dialysis centres at government hospitals, which are the only ones in the country to use single use disposable items. It was the Chief Minister’s goal of good healthcare that such developments were possible, Rama Rao said.

The Chief Minister demonstrated what a humanitarian government can achieve, he said. Thanks to programmes such as Amma Vodi, institutional deliveries increased from 30 per cent to 50 per cent in the State. This resulted in elimination of unnecessary caesarean operations and hysterectomies, which were being performed under the Arogyasri scheme just so that hospitals could make money of hapless women, Rama Rao said.

Referring to the Kanti Velugu scheme, he said very few States had interventions on to improve healthcare for the poor and needy on this scale. “There is much more to be done and we will improve the services further”, he added.

Referring to some issues raised by Ayush doctors, Rama Rao said a meeting can be arranged with some Ayush fraternity representatives where these can be discussed in detail. He also said the demand for a bridge course for Ayush doctors, who may want to also acquire an Allopathic medicine degree, would be explored. “Laxma Reddy is an Ayush doctor and is a credit for us. I am sure he will solve the problems or challenges faced by you,” Rama Rao said.

Referring to possible confusion amidst the political heat related to elections, he said, “The tu tu main main, tu kitta main kitta, dekhlenge dekhlenge, will go on. I have faith that the people are with us. TRS implemented many programmes for improving education, health and development for providing immediate relief to the poor as well meet long-term needs of the people and the next generations to come,” Rama Rao said.

Referring to the peaceful atmosphere prevalent in the State, Rama Rao said in the pat, every year curfew somewhere or the other was being clamped. “But under a secular Chief Minister who practises his faith, but also treats every other religion and belief with all the respect they deserve, there has been peace in every corner of Telangana,” he said.

Laxma Reddy said the Chief Minister’s schemes and plans in all sectors made the rest of India look at Telangana for inspiration. The Chief Minister was giving a lot of importance to healthcare for the poor, he said.

Lok Sabha member B Vinod Kumar said under the TRS government, people’s faith in government hospitals increased many fold. “Telangana is the capital of Ayush streams and there is also a need for more research in these fields,” he added

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Telangana Polls: How the youngest state voted last time

Elections to the legislative assembly of Telangana, the country’s youngest state, will be held on December 7. The previous elections were held in April-May 2014 along with the Lok Sabha elections, and the state formally came into being on June 2.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi led by K Chandrashekar Rao secured the majority with 63 seats in the 120*-member house.

A look at the parties’ seat tally and victory margins…

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December polls favourable to TRS, says KCR

Telangana Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao told his cabinet ministers that the December elections in the state would be favourable to their Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

KCR discussed the issue of early election and required poll strategies with senior leaders after the Election Commission of India announced the poll schedule for the five states including Telangana.

He said the poll schedule came out as per his expectations and now the party leaders should begin giving major focus to poll preparations in all the districts and on how to go about intensifying campaign by holding public meetings to cover every assembly segment.

TRS has already announced names of its candidates for 105 out of the total 119 segments. The names for remaining 14 segments will be announced in three to four days.

While TRS is marching ahead in high speed, Congress and its Mahakutami (Grand Alliance) partners are still struggling to reach an agreement on seat sharing and finalisation of contesting candidates.

Congress leaders like Revanth Reddy and DK Aruna are hogging limelight by attacking KCR in strong language but that was not enough as there were issues like seat adjustments and also that of Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) led by activist Kodandaram seeking more seats.

Some leaders like Marri Sasidhar Reddy have complained against irregularities in preparation of voter lists by TRS leaders in Hyderabad and other places and the issue was raised before the court. It showed the anxiety and unpreparedness of Congress to make a full-fledged attack on TRS.

Moreover, AP CM Chandrababu’s announcement that his party may be called a part of Mahakutami and not to be termed as an ally of Congress came as a disheartening news for Grand Alliance. Chandrababu has also ruled out possible alliance with Congress in AP in 2019 elections.

Seeing all this, analysts feel that the Mahakutami is all likely to face more serious problems in coming days.

Obviously, KCR is giving one blow after another to rivals by coming out with his surprise strategies.

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Election Commission grants conditional nod to Telangana’s Rs 6000-crore cash assistance scheme for farmers

Election Commission’s poll code came into effect in the state from September 6, the day the Telangana assembly was dissolved.

The Election Commission (EC) on Friday granted conditional approval for the Rs 6,000 crore Rythu Bandhu scheme of Telangana government, which promises to offer cash assistance to farmers during the upcoming Rabi season, notwithstanding the commission’s electoral code of conduct enforced in the state.

SK Rudola, principal secretary, EC, said the scheme could be implemented subject to certain conditions. As per conditions, Rythu Bandhu scheme would be applicable only to existing beneficiaries and no new beneficiaries would be added to the list of. Moreover, the cash had to be credited directly into the accounts of the farmers through electronic transfer and not distributed in the form of cheques. The EC also ruled out publicity for the implementation of the scheme apart from directing political parties not to distribute cash to farmers at public functions.

The first phase of Rythu Bandhu scheme was implemented in May this year, for the Kharif season. Under this, each farmer would be paid a cash assistance of Rs 4,000 per acre for the purchase of agriculture inputs. The scheme was designed to benefit 57.17 lakh farmers across 10,874 villages.

EC’s poll code came into effect from September 6, the day the state assembly was dissolved. The Congress, meanwhile, clarified that it would never stop any welfare and development activity in the state. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy said Rythu Bandhu scheme should be implemented under the direct supervision of EC and official machinery without any political interference or influence.

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Following TRS candidate list announcement, here’s who defected from the party

Jumping ship according to the political weather is not new. The Telangana Assembly led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was dissolved on September 6, and the state has since been gearing up for elections. The party released a list of 105 candidates out of 119 for the constituencies in Telangana, and has resulted in a few defections.

Defections from the TRS

K Shiva Kumar Reddy: He won from Narayanpet in the Assembly 2014 elections on a TRS ticket. Along with his followers, he joined the Congress on September 5. Shiva Kumar said that he and his followers were disillusioned by the false promises made by the TRS.

Bhupathi Reddy: a member of the TRS for 14 years resigned from the party and joined Congress on September 15. Speaking to media after his resignation, Reddy claimed he was forced to leave the party as TRS was giving priority to those who betrayed Telangana. He is expected to contest from Nizamabad Rural constituency.

Ramesh Rathod: A former Member of Parliament, Ramesh had joined the TRS in 2017. He had jumped ship from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). After he was not given a ticket to contest from Khanapur (ST) in the upcoming Assembly polls by the TRS, a disgruntled Ramesh joined the Congress on September 20. He was a former Politburo member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Konda Surekha: The Women and Child Welfare Minister in the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government in united Andhra Pradesh, Surekha joined the Congress along with her husband, Konda Muralidhar Rao, an MLC. They joined the Congress from the TRS on September 26. They defected to the Congress after Surekha was upset that her name did not feature in the list of 105 candidates that TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao released. Surekha was first elected as an MLA in 1999 on a Congress ticket. She then resigned from the party in 2011, and joined the YSR Congress Party. Later, she contested the 2014 elections on a TRS ticket.

Bera Satyanarayana: On October 2, Mancherial Mandal Parishad president Bera Satyanarayana joined the Bahujan Samaj Party. He resigned from the TRS in protest of the party’s decision to give the ticket to sitting MLA N Diwakar.

Defections to the TRS

KR Suresh Reddy: Formerly the Assembly Speaker in united Andhra Pradesh, Suresh joined the TRS on September 7. He was invited to join the TRS by Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao shortly after the Telangana assembly was dissolved. Earlier, Suresh has contested from both Balkonda and Armoor constituencies of Nizamabad district. Which seat he will be contesting from this time is yet to be decided.