Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's daughter Sharmila, who undertook a 72-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the unemployed youths of Telangana, ended her fast on Sunday.
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The ruling TRS is all set to retain the Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency, by-election for which was held on April 17.
Responding to a request by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Friday decided not to contest the by-election to a division of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Y.S. Sharmila, who plans to launch a new political party in Telangana in July this year, undertook a day-long fast here on Thursday to demand issuance of job notifications by the state government for the unemployed youth of Telangana.
Even as the campaigning for the by-election to Nagarjunsagar assembly seat comes to an end by Thursday evening, Telangana is gearing up for yet another round of elections this month end, even as the people are bearing the brunt of rapidly spreading Covid-19.
It looks like Y S Sharmila, daughter of former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, is getting more response
There were times when people were coming in drones voluntarily to the public meetings of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, during the peak of the Telangana movement, only to listen to his rabble-rousing speeches.
The last week's public meeting held by Y S Sharmila, daughter of former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, at Khammam was a massive success and generated a lot of euphoria among the public.
With the Telangana high court refusing to intervene in the public meeting to be held by Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Halia in Nalgonda town as part of campaign for Nagarjunsagar assembly by-election, the Congress is making last minute attempt to stall the meeting.
Telangana's Cabinet Minister and working president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday said it's the collective responsibility of all to take the current surge in Covid-19 cases seriously.
Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency is all set to witness a triangular fight among ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the April 17 bypoll.
It appears Y S Sharmila, who announced the launch of a new political party in Telangana, has chosen to follow the same strategy adopted by her brother Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy after he launched his YSR Congress party in 2012.
The defection of two Telugu Desam Party legislators into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi that led to the virtual closure of the TDP shop in the state seems to have hit hard the Congress party more than the TDP itself.
Officials on Friday found more golden ornaments from a plot in Telangana's Jangaon district where a treasure trove was discovered by a realtor while leveling the land on Thursday.
Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao has accused Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of being the mastermind behind the new regional party being floated by Y S Sharmila.