TRS will retain power: KTR

He pointed out that whether it was the GHMC, Warangal by-election or other polls, people of the State had been extending support to TRS since 2014.

Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao on Wednesday said Telangana State would witness a ‘noisy revolution’ on December 11, the day of counting after polling to 119 Assembly seats on December 7 that will see the TRS retaining power in the State with a thumping majority.

The Minister was reacting to TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy’s comment claiming that the State was witnessing a ‘silent revolution.’ “There is no such silent revolution in the State, and the only revolution that the State will see will be the people’s celebrations on December 11, when all the Congress leaders will be proved wrong,” Rama Rao said, participating in Praja Aashirvada Sabha held in Medipalli of Jagtial district.

He pointed out that whether it was the GHMC, Warangal by-election or other polls, people of the State had been extending support to TRS since 2014.

“TRS will capture power in the State again by winning 100 Assembly seats and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will continue as Chief Minister even after December 11. There is no doubt about this,” he said.

Stating that he could proudly declare that KCR will be the Chief Minister again in the next term, Rama Rao challenged the Congress leaders to announce its Chief Ministerial candidate. “Ten leaders will take turns as Chief Minister for the next five years if the Congress is voted to power,” he said, adding that KCR will be Chief Minister till the agriculture sector becomes a festive activity and the objective of Golden Telangana is achieved.

Terming the Congress-TDP alliance as unethical, the Minister said it was a great insult to the late Chief Minister NT Rama Rao, who founded the TDP to primarily oppose the Congress. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had shown his true colours by writing 30 letters to the Central government to stall construction of Kaleshwaram, Sita Rama and Palamuru lift irrigation projects, he said, while Congress filed a number of cases in the court against the construction of irrigation projects after taking fingerprints of dead persons.

Supply of 24 hours power supply to agriculture sector and construction of irrigation projects would be stalled if the Prajakutami was voted to power in the State, he warned, and said it was up to the people to decide whether to elect KCR, who has been striving hard for the uplift of all sections of society, or the Congress-TDP alliance which had made the people suffer for 67 years.

With a view to improve the lives of the poor, the TRS government focused more on vital issues like irrigation projects, 24 hours power supply to the agriculture sector, drinking water, pensions to different sections of people, among other initiatives. KCR has also decided to waive power bills of SC and ST communities up to 100 units, he said.

Stating that Medipalli area had been neglected in the last 67 years, Rama Rao said that Medigadda and Kathalapur areas would turn into another Konaseema once the Kaleshwaram project is completed. It would be completed in the coming six months, he said, adding that water under Mission Bhagiratha will reach every household by December 7.

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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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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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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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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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Unemployment dole and other welfare measures in TRS manifest

IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday stated that the ensuing elections were referendum to the TRS government’s development agenda and Congress party’s credibility among people. He assured that the TRS would develop Vemulawada into a temple city over the next four-five years after retaining power in the State.

Addressing the Congress and BJP leaders from erstwhile Karimnagar district who joined TRS at his camp office in Hyderabad on Saturday, Rama Rao dared the Congress leadership to declare that the elections were a referendum to their work and credibility as the main Opposition party in the State. “In the past four and half years, the TRS government took up several development projects and welfare schemes. Rather than playing the role of main Opposition entrusted by the people of the State, the Congress leaders were interested only in obstructing the development projects by the TRS government. People will teach them a lesson for their deeds,” he predicted.

The Minister lashed out at the Congress and BJP for injustice done to Telangana State over several decades. He held the Congress responsible for sad condition of the region, he blamed the BJP government for injustice done to the State in the last four and half years. He accused BJP National President Amit Shah for taking credit for the State development without even fulfilling the promises made under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. “People of Telangana do not believe in communal and religious politics. Instead, they believe in development. The TRS government had not only ensured religious equality but also took up numerous development programmes which will won support from people in a large scale,” he added.

Rama Rao said an action plan has been prepared for development of Sri Rajarajeswara Swamy temple at Vemulawada besides laying foundation for several development programmes including Outer Ring Road, new bus terminal and tourism projects. He assured that the temple city will be developed on all spheres over next four-five years. He reiterated that TRS leadership does not fear Delhi-based politics as its bosses were people on the streets of Telangana State.

TRS candidate from Vemulawada Chennamaneni Ramesh and several other senior TRS leaders were present. BJP Karimnagar Parliamentary Constituency convener Y Srinivasa Rao, Congress senior leader Sridhar Rao, Rajanna-Siricilla district BJYM secretary Shashank and 300 others Congress and BJP leaders as well as activists joined TRS on the occasion.

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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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