Hyderabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Elections to chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of 11 municipalities in Telangana were postponed on Monday as both the ruling Congress and main opposition BRS accused each other of resorting to undemocratic means to capture power in the urban local bodies.Elections in Yellandu, Sultanabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Kagaznagar, Ketanapally, Khanapur, Zaheerabad, Inderesham, Dornakal, Jjangaon and Thorrur have been postponed by the election authorities.Elections to 116…
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Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao claimed on Friday that the results of municipal elections made it clear that the political landscape of Telangana is undergoing a decisive shift. Reacting to the results of the elections for 116 municipalities and seven corporations, he stated that the saffron wave is marching ahead in Telangana“BRS is gone: A party that once dominated urban local bodies has witnessed a dramatic collapse. From a towering 1,341 wards earlier, it…
Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana’s ruling Congress party has won nearly 60 per cent of urban local bodies, the results show on Friday night.The Congress party captured power in 64 out of 116 municipalities and three out of seven corporations.Main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) bagged 13 municipalities, while Forward Block captured one urban local body.There were no clear winners in 38 municipalities. This triggered camp politics by both Congress and BRS to lure independents and othe…
Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana’s ruling Congress party has bagged at least 62 out of 116 municipalities and three out of seven corporations, as the counting of votes continued on Friday.Main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) captured power in 12 municipalities while Forward Block captured one urban local body.There were no clear winners in 37 municipalities. This triggered camp politics by both Congress and BRS to win over independents and others to get the posts of chairpersons and …
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said on Monday that the saffron wave is inevitable in the municipal elections in Telangana.Hitting back at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the BJP leader posted on social media that the saffron wave is inevitable and that the Chief Minister knows it.“His frustrated media interaction said it all. It increasingly appears that the CM’s script is being drafted in Darussalam. The language and political narr…
Hyderabad, Feb 8 (IANS) Telangana BJP President N. Ramchander Rao on Sunday accused Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of playing a “full-fledged communal card” in the municipal elections.He claimed that the Chief Minister is putting vote bank above the law by pushing for four per cent reservation for Muslims.“Congress is attempting to push a 4 per cent reservation for Muslims by any means necessary. This move is a direct insult to the framers of our Constitution, especially Babasaheb Dr B.R. Ambedk…
Hyderabad, Feb 8 (IANS) Officials of the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, raided a quack’s clinic in Karimnagar district and seized drugs illegally stocked for sale. Shahnawaz Qasim, Director General, Drugs Control Administration, said on Sunday that acting on credible information, officials raided the premises of quack Vemula Sai Krishna at Hima Bindu First Aid Centre, Gattubuthkur Village, Gangadhara Mandal.Sai Krishna was conducting clinical practice without proper qualifications. Dur…
Hyderabad, Feb 5 (IANS) Alleging a secret understanding between BRS and BJP for the municipal elections, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Thursday alleged that the BJP is taking ‘protection money’ to shield BRS leaders in various scams. He challenged the BJP government at the Centre to arrest former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and his son K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) in the Kaleshwaram and Formula E race cases, respectively.Addressing a public meeting as part of the Congres…
Hyderabad, Jan 27 (IANS) Though Telangana has been witnessing movement of tigers around human habitations, the big cats are consciously avoiding coming into contact with human beings and are not a threat to human life, the State Forest Department said on Tuesday. The department has been proactive since the entry of the tiger into districts like Peddapally, Karimnagar, Jagityal, Kamareddy, Siddipet, Yadadri, etc.In recent times, Telangana witnessed the movement of tigers in human-dominated landsc…
Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) There are 52.43 lakh voters in 118 municipalities and five municipal corporations in Telangana, reveals the final voter list published by the State Election Commission on Tuesday. The municipalities and corporations have 2,996 wards. The total number of voters is 52,43,023, comprising 25,62,369 men, 26,80,014 women and 640 others.Stepping up the arrangements for the upcoming municipal elections, the Election Commission has mapped and confirmed municipality-wise voters.Th…