What TelanganaTalkies reported a month before is official now. The TRS Government led by KCR has conceded the seven mandals of Khammam district to AP. The mandals which were transferred to Andhra Pradesh by the Centre through the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (amendment) Bill, 2014, in July are now, without any controversy, part of AP. While speaking in a press conference on Tuesday, CM KCR was asked on why the survey exercise is not being carried out in the 7 mandals of AP. TS Government has earlier objected to the amendment and the procedural issues in passing the amendment. To this, the CM remarked that the Parliament had enacted the amendment and passed the law the transfer of mandals, despite protests by Telangana. So the 7 ...

After successfully engineering the transfer of the 7 mandals from Telangana to AP, claiming it to make rehabilitation measures easier for the people displaced by the project, AP is now claiming that Telangana has no stake in Polavaram project as the project is geographically no more in Telangana’s territory. So AP is now demanding Centre to kick out Telangana from the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA), the special purpose vehicle created to implement the mammoth project, under the AP Reorganisation Act. The Telangana government on Thursday appointed its chief secretary Rajiv Sharma and the relief and rehabilitation commissioner as the state’s nominees in Polavaram Project Authority (PPA). That raised curtains on yet an another drama by AP CM Chandrababu Naidu. He decided to lodge a ...