The Telangana government is likely to wind up the ongoing budget session of the state assembly by Tuesday or Wednesday, on the pretext of increase in the number of cases of Coronavirus.
Fresh from the victory of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the just concluded MLC elections from two graduates’ constituencies in the state, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced an increase of 30 per cent in the salaries of all the government employees.
After two successive poll reverses, Telangana's ruling party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has bounced back in the elections to the State Legislative Council wresting a seat from the BJP and retaining the other.
The victory of Surabhi Vani Devi, daughter of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, in the MLC elections under Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates’ constituency is a sort of morale booster for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
The way Telangana Rashtra Samithi won the election to the MLC seat from Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates’ constituency is a sort of wake-up call for veteran Congress leader and former minister K Jana Reddy, more than anybody else.
Surabhi Vani Devi, daughter of former Prime Minister of India P V Narasimha Rao, won the election to Telangana state legislative council from Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates’ constituency on Telangana Rashtra Samithi ticket, after four-days of laborious counting process.
Telangna Rashtra Samithi working president and state information technology minister K T Rama Rao may lead a team of his cabinet colleagues to Visakhapatnam soon to study the ongoing agitation against privatisation of Vizag Steel Plant.
An interesting development took place at the Lotus Pond office of Y S Sharmila, daughter of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, in Hyderabad on Friday.
Bleak future is staring at former Osmania University professor-turned-politician M Kodandaram, as it has almost become certain that he is losing the elections to the MLC seat from Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda graduates’ constituency.
When popular television personality and journalist Teenmaar Mallanna contested the by-elections to Huzurnagar assembly seat one-and-a-half years ago, he got just 894 votes, which was lesser than the votes polled under NOTA.
The counting of votes in the elections to the two MLC seats from graduates’ constituency in Telangana is going on at a snail’s pace and it will take at least one more day to get the final result.
Telangana finance minister T Harish Rao on Thursday presented the annual budget of the state for 2021-22 at an outlay of Rs 2.30 lakh crore, with a projected revenue surplus of Rs 6,743 crore.
There is no other enemy for the Congress party in Telangana. Its own leaders are sufficient to sabotage the party’s prospects in any elections.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which lost its Lok Sabha seat in Nizamabad to Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 general elections on the issue of setting up of turmeric board, has now got a new weapon now.
Former MP from Chevella Konda Vishweshwar Reddy on Monday dealt a huge shock to the Congress party by announcing his resignation from the party, which has already been facing a series of electoral debacles in the last few years.