The proposed Mission Kakatiya programme of the Telangana government aimed at restoring more than 20,000 minor irrigation tanks, smacks of a major scam on the lines of Jalayagnam taken up during YS Rajasekhar Reddy regime which was misused for swindling funds.
Two days after the sacking of Rajaiah, a Dalit activist, Bakka Judson filed an RTI application seeking the reasons for the dismissal of Rajaiah.
Barack Obama has once again spoken out against violence being perpetrated on various religions in India in the past few years.
Prior to bifurcation, it was promised that the newly carved Andhra Pradesh will be given special status. Though technically, it was the erstwhile Congress government that made the big promise, BJP which saw it coming supported the proposition.
To date, the TRS has not been able to prevent the spate of farmer suicides in its State. The situation is only bound to get worse in summer, with the CM KCR himself declaring that the farmers are going to face a potentially tough summer.
Do you know how much the AP CM is asking the Centre for construction of the new capital? Rs 20,000 crore and that is just in 'immediate assistance'. God only knows what the final figure would be.
Despite recent unilateral decisions of KCR such as the one to raze the existing secretariat, conducting an Eamcet separately, freezing the bank accounts of AP institutions or Telangana drawing excess water from Srisailam etc, not a single word of caution has been uttered by the Governor.
If one were to compare the manifesto of the AAP with that of the BJP, it is clear that Kejriwal has once again planned for some fantastic schemes, schemes that would require huge funding and are not easy to deliver on.
Can the media make or break a government? Maybe yes, maybe not! Arvind Kejriwal is a classic case study.
During the election campaign, Chandrababu announced an across-the-board loan waiver for farmers and promptly won the polls. However, after becoming the CM, Naidu put a lot of riders to his promise such as making Aadhar mandatory, loan waiver only up to Rs 50,000 and a host of other things completely diluting his promise.
Former Minister T G Venkatesh, who had switched his loyalty from Congress to Telugu Desam Party soon after Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, is known for his controversial remarks. And on Thursday, too, he lived up to his reputation.
The raging controversy surrounding Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's move to shift the Chest Hospital from Erragadda to relocate the State Secretariat there is all set to be thrown into the court of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
There is a saying in Telugu: “Devudu Varamichchina, Poojari Varamivvadu” (God grants boons, but the priest does not pass them on to devotees). Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao is now playing the rule of poojari for the people of Telangana.
Of course, one can attribute it to the work pressure, read his constant trips abroad and the fact that he is not yet operating from his state, though Hyderabad was meant to be the common capital for a decade.
