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An expose by a TV channel on Jayaprakash Narayan’s LokSatta revealed sensational details of LokSatta’s internal mechanism. Here are few details from the sting on LSP’s Delhi Chief Anurag Kejriwal. He is also member of LokSatta’s steering committee. 1. JP set to become cabinet minister in Modi’s Govt if he wins from Malkajgiri. LSP can get whatever that can be done for its sponsors in that ministry. 2. JP’s anti-corruption tirade on TV is for masses. LSP can lobby to get things done and promote ‘businesses’ for the right cost. 3. LSP can put up ‘dummy’ candidates to divide votes for the right cost. 4. LSP would fully promote businesses which can sponsor it’s candidates in elections with the officially ...

The BJP-TDP-Loksatta electoral alliance in the state has been formalized and an announcement on it is likely to be made on Friday or Saturday. As per the seat sharing arrangement finalized by BJP national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar, TDP Rajya Sabha MPs Sujana Chowdhary and CM Ramesh and the Loksatta representative in Hyderabad on Thursday, the TDP will give the BJP 8 Lok Sabha seats and 45 assembly seats in Telangana while Loksatta’s JP will contest the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat and perhaps three or four assembly seats in Telangana. In the Seemandhra region, the BJP will contest four Lok Sabha seats and 15 assembly seats. According to sources, a few seats are likely to be allotted to the Pawan Kalyan’s ...

Gaskanti Rajamouli, a surrendered naxalite, is currently pursuing Ph.D. and also working as assistant executive engineer in Irrigation Department A whimsical decision cost him dear and threw him off balance at a young age. He left his final year engineering to join the armed extremist movement overcome by emotion. Gaskanti Rajamouli, a surrendered naxalite, has a lot to regret about, but nonetheless building an enviable future for himself. “I was drawn into the Naxal movement while studying BE (Civil) in Osmania University in 1990. I was underground for 16 years before surrendering in 2007,” he told The Hindu. Warangal Superintendent of Police (Rural) L.K.V. Ranga Rao, presenting the former naxal before the select media persons, said he was OSD of ...

After a gap of almost 58 years, Gandhi Bhavan, the Congress party headquarters, is going back to the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee will function from a swanky multi-storied Indira Bhavan building on the Gandhi Bhavan premises from Saturday. With two PCCs in place, the Congress leadership decided to have separate entities as well as premises. Initially, it was thought that the APCC office would function from the present old building and Telangana PCC would shift to the new building. But, objections by senior Telangana Congress leaders put paid to the efforts to retain the building for APCC. According to former APCC general secretary G. Niranjan, the foundation for Gandhi Bhavan was laid on October 7, ...