Hyderabad, May 6 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday alleged that Telangana is slipping back into agrarian crisis under Congress rule.He also alleged that the Congress government has not implemented even one of the 34 promises made in farmers’ declaration unveiled four years ago.Addressing ‘Rythu Sangrama Sabha’ at Warangal, he demanded immediate procurement of farmers’ produce and accountability on unfulfilled promises. He declared that the …
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Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday urged the Congress government to wake up from its “deep slumber” and take immediate steps to ensure the procurement of farmers’ produce across Telangana. He criticised the state government for its complete inaction despite large quantities of paddy, maize, groundnut, and other crops already arriving at market yards.KTR visited multiple procurement centres in the undivided Warangal district on Tuesday …
Hyderabad, May 4 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Monday visited party leader Manne Krishank at Sangareddy Jail, where he is lodged in a case relating to alleged assault on a Congress party worker.Several senior leaders of the BRS accompanied Rama Rao during this visit.Krishank and seven of his associates were arrested on April 24 in Hyderabad for allegedly assaulting a Congress worker over a social media post.KTR, however, termed his arrest illegal. He clai…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Telangana’s minister for revenue Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said on Sunday that the state government is implementing the promises made to farmers in the farmers’ declaration released as part of the Congress party’s election campaign by senior leader Rahul Gandhi.He claimed that the ‘farmers’ friendly’ government is fulfilling the assurances one by one by implementing various programmes. He stated that paddy and maize crops are being procured at Minimum Support Price, w…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Sunday attacked Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for what he called betraying nearly 14 lakh students from BC, SC, ST, and minority communities over fee reimbursement. In a detailed letter addressed to the Chief Minister, he alleged that grave injustice is being meted out to the students.KTR stated that Government Order (GO No. 7) is a “dark and deliberate attempt” to dismantle the fee reimburse…
Hyderabad, April 30 (IANS) The Election Commission of India has approved Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS) as the name of Kalvakuntla Kavitha’s new political party. Kavitha’s office said on Thursday that the Central Election Commission has officially given the TRS name to Kavitha.It said officials handed over a letter granting permission to the party at Kavitha’s residence in Banjara Hills here.Kavitha had, last week, launched the new political party as Telangana Rashtra Sena (TRS). However, the…
Hyderabad, April 29 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday condemned Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy over his reported remark that he derives “sadistic pleasure” when opposition parties criticise him. Addressing a gathering at Telangana Bhavan, KTR termed the reported statement as “shameful” and accused the Chief Minister of being insensitive to public suffering.He said that people across the state, distressed by what he described as fail…
Hyderabad, April 27 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao on Monday said that political parties come and go, reacting to the formation of Telangana Rashtra Sena by his sister K. Kavitha.”Parties come and go. There is no need to pay much attention to it,” he said while replying to queries at a press conference here.Referring to certain remarks made by Kavitha about BRS president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), KTR said that many people speak abo…
Hyderabad, April 27 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said on Monday that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has a past but no future.He predicted that BRS, which turned 26 on Monday, will not survive. He had an informal chat with the media in Assembly premises.Revanth Reddy remarked that BRS headed by former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is no longer viable.He compared the BRS with a dead body. “No matter how much make-up is done to a dead corpse, it will not rise,” he …
Hyderabad, April 27 (IANS) Telangana Minister for Minority Welfare Mohammad Azharuddin and Professor M. Kodandaram Reddy on Monday took oath as members of the state’s Legislative Council.Council Chairman G. Sukhender Reddy administered the oath to them at an event held in the Assembly building.Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, his Cabinet colleagues, state Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud and other leaders of the ruling Congress party attended the event.Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla on Sunday n…