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 ...

Modi showed what he meant by his oft repeated belief – ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’. In the very 1st cabinet meeting, Modi’s Govt passed an ordinance instead of choosing to discuss the issue pertaining to a State’s border in Parliament. And worse, it lied about it in the press conference soon after the cabinet meet saying the issue pertaining to the ordinance wasn’t even discussed! See Ravi Shankar Prasad, the law minister lying on Camera here - The Ordinance became public news only after 24 hours when it reached the President. It is such a shame a Govt. which got such an overwhelming mandate can’t deliberate and decide in this democracy and instead chooses the ordinance path to alter a ...

A PIL has been been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act that led to creation of the new State of Telangana. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and A K Sikri today refused urgent hearing of the PIL, filed by V R Krishna Iyer Free Legal Aid Committee and ordered that it be tagged along with other similar petitions on the issue. Advocate G Venkatesh Rao, appearing for the committee, sought urgent hearing of the PIL by citing media reports that said that a “war room” is being created to drive out persons, who do not hail from Telangana, from Hyderabad. “Let it be tagged with other similar petitions,” the ...

A day after KCR said “We are setting up a war room to combat the menace of Seemandhra employees producing fake domicile and nativity certificates to remain in Telangana. The Telangana employees must be vigilant and prepare the list in their respective department to show who is from Seemandhra and who is from Telangana. Let us build our own database and ensure that the distribution of employees is based on that,” in a meeting with several employees’ unions, including the Telangana Gazetted Officers Association (TGOs), Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Assocaition (TNGOs), Telangana Electricity Employees JAC and Telangana RTC Employees JAC at Kompally, TRS started the ‘War Room’ in Telangana Bhavan. With discontent among Telangana employees over allocation of Seemandhra employees to ...

CM-Designate KCR clearly told AP Chief Secretary PK Mohanty, who met him on friday, that Telangana State Govt. won’t foot the bill of AP Govt expenses in Hyderabad for the period it serves as Joint Capital. AP Govt. will function from Hyderabad for few years before it moves to it’s new capital in Andhra and the administration facilities it will share with Telangana Govt. include the secretariat, assembly buildings, guest houses and housing facilities for all elected MLAs, bureaucracy & other Govt. machinery. All PSUs operating for AP Govt. are shared and their administrative & employee facilities in Hyderabad too are shared. Each year, expenses for these facilities run into thousands of crores but nothing the reports prepared by CS ...