Allotment of members through lottery in the Rajya Sabha to the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was completed on Friday in the chambers of the Chairman Hamid Ansari. As per the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 7 members have been allotted to Telangana and 11 to the residual state of Andhra Pradesh. Interestingly, the vocal supporters of the 2 States are allotted to opposite State. Keshava Rao of TRS has been allotted to Andhra while CM Ramesh and KVP have been allotted to Telangana. The vacant seats of N Janardhan Reddy went to AP quota. Members alloted to Telangana - Gundu Sudharani, (TDP) C.M. Ramesh (TDP) G Mohan Rao (TDP) V. Hanumantha Rao, (CONG) Palvai Govardhan Reddy, (CONG) Ananda Bhaskar ...

In a disgraceful way, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu in a press conference on Thursday afternoon admitted publicly that he personally fulfilled the promise of Polavaram made by UPA Govt through the ordinance. After about an hour, the news poured in that the President promulgated the Ordinance. This confirmed our story earlier that Venkaiah Naidu personally got the ordinance signed by President even while the union cabinet lied that they didn’t even discuss the issue. Venkaiah justified his act by saying that there is no controversy on the transfer of 7 mandals to Andhra and that all have agreed it at the time of passage of AP Reorg Bill. Then the natural question is why they had to lie about the ...

According to TRS sources, KCR is still deliberating on the final size and shape of his ministry. Broad details of the thought process are that he would swear-in with 2 deputy CMs from Dalit & Muslim communities and 12 other ministers, most of them who had previous experiences in being ministers. KCR will swear on June 2nd at 12.57 pm at Raj Bhavan. Both Harish Rao & KTR are expected to be in the cabinet. KCR seem to be keen to hand over at least 2 of the critical ministries like Power, Irrigation and Agriculture to Harish Rao as he sees his ‘hand-on’ approach a big plus to make progress in these areas that formed the backbone of the narrative of neglect ...

The Secretariat Telangana Employees Association (STEA) has raised serious objections over categorization of 207 officials as having origin in Telangana and demanded review of the entire process of division of employees. The objections came within a day of AP Govt. releasing a list of 1,865 Secretariat employees which categorized 1050 employees as that of Andhra and 805 that of Telangana. After giving a representation to general administration department (GAD) secretary SK Sinha, who promised review of the violations, the Association threatened any attempt to bulldoze their concerns would be met with complete boycott of the employees who faked their nativity. The employees took their concern to CM designate KCR. With this the TRS president has constituted a committee with four ...

The AP Govt. on Tuesday released a list of 1,865 Secretariat employees, from the cadre of additional secretary to DR&T assistant in all the departments, clearly specifying their “local status.” The top-priority memo issues along with this list asked for objections over status delcared by any of the employees to be conveyed to a Dy. Secretary. It said “In case, any employee, finds his local status incorrect or if anyone has reasons to believe that local status of any employee is incorrectly given, it is suggested that such employee or the person should send their representations to Dy. Secretary to Government (SU), GAD either in person or by mail (ds_su_gad@ap.gov.in), duly signed and stating the reasons why any local status ...