The martyrs memorial at Gun Park may have become the symbol of Telangana struggle but four decades after installation and even after birth of the new state, it still awaits a formal inauguration and, its creator, his dues. The memorial turned a monument symbolizing rebellion in recent years with students and politicians courting arrest at the Gun Park. Its place in the history of Telangana state was further cemented when the state’s first chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao paid his respects at the memorial early Monday morning before being sworn in. This statue, a 25-feet tall one is the handiwork of Aekka Yadagiri Rao, 74, a nationally acclaimed sculptor, who retired as Professor in Department of Sculpture from JNTU (Fine ...

The surprising Polavaram Ordinance from centre has poisoned the waters between BJP and TRS. Just when it was felt KCR was getting ready to get into a working relation with centre by accepting Modi’s invite and personally attending his swearing-in, BJP’s Central Govt, comprising Venkaiah Naidu & TDP didn’t think twice in promulgating the Polavaram Ordinance and bought in an unbridgeable gap, in this short time before KCR’s swearing-in. While non-NDA leaders like Jayalalitha, Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee skipped Modi’s swearing-in, KCR chose to attend and extend his hand to Modi. Now, union cabinet Minister Venkayya Naidu in Delhi said they have no invite from KCR so far for his swearing-in. And it is unlikely they will get any. ...

This time it is the turn of Modi Govt. to implement the infamous Chapter 8 on Telangana. Modi’s Cabinet on Tuesday discussed the Polavaram ordinance transferring 7 mandals of Khammam Dist in Telangana to AP and forwarded it to the President. The Andhra minister in cabinet Venkaiah Naidu personally carried the ordinance to the President and got it signed by home on Wednesday afternoon. And all this is done in secret, presumably to avoid a ‘law and order’ situation in Telangana! The Cabinet decided they will keep the ordinance a secret and blocked all news about it in National media. In fact, the law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad even lied to press, soon after the Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, by saying ...

KCR held a 5 hour meeting with retired engineers yesterday and discussed about the present conditions and his plan for irrigation in his Telangana. Reiterating that Irrigation is his Govt’s top priority, KCR conveyed the group in the meeting at Telangana Bhavan that he would waste no time in fastening to Palamuru–Ranga Reddy lift irrigation scheme which has the potential to create 10-lakh acre ayacut in Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda districts. He seems to have conveyed that he is exploring options to get ‘National Project’ status for this from Center. “Let us complete all the 26 pending projects in Telangana in two years’ time. For the completion of these projects Rs 18,000 crores will be needed and it would help ...

Chandrababu Naidu is often projected by media as a hi-tech CM and we are told he is well-versed in dealing with big businesses and attracting them to invest during his rule. He often speaks how he roped in Microsoft etc into Hyderabad IT. So it comes as a shocker when he said TRS started a war room to start a war and that it is not war but peace that we need now. He further challenged that he would himself go to the war room and see what TRS would do! Someone please tell Naidu that War Room is a synonym for a brainstorming room which is well-equipped with IT and Communication means. It is a control centre or a ...