Chennai, April 15 (IANS) Tamil Nadu is set to witness widespread protests on Thursday after Chief Minister M. K. Stalin called for a statewide black flag demonstration against the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise and constitutional amendments.Urging people to express their dissent, Stalin appealed to citizens across the state to hoist black flags in their homes and public spaces. “Let black flags rise! Tamil Nadu will fight, and Tamil Nadu will win,” he declared in a strongly worded soc…
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Hyderabad, April 15 (IANS) Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha on Wednesday warned of a movement on the scale of the Telangana agitation if the BJP-led Centre attempts to weaken the state’s democratic representation under the guise of delimitation.The former MP said that the South, which led the nation in economic growth and family planning for decades, should be rewarded and not punished.“The voice of the people of Telangana cannot be diluted under the guise of delimitation. Our positio…
Hyderabad, April 15 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working President K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday warned the Centre that if delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies results in injustice to South India, this will trigger a massive movement in the region.He made it clear that if the delimitation exercise is conducted in a manner that diminishes the representation of the Southern states, it will not remain merely a political process or a legislative amendment; rather, it will trigger a power…
Hubballi (Karnataka), April 7 (IANS) Amid the speculation over Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, assuming the role of Karnataka Chief Minister, the State Congress President stated that “time will answer everything.” On the fuel situation in the state he said that two ships carrying fuel from Gulf countries went to Gujarat and not Mangaluru or Kerala ports and accused the Centre of “looking only towards North India and neglecting South India.”When asked by the media at the Hubballi airport o…
Davanagere, April 6 (IANS) Responding to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s criticism against the Centre, Union Minister for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Monday accused the Congress of trying to create divisions by raising a “North-South states” narrative over the issue of Lok Sabha constituency delimitation, and launched a sharp attack on the Chief Minister. Addressing a press conference in Davanagere, Joshi rejected Siddaramaiah’s allegation that the BJ…
Bengaluru, April 6 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara, commenting on the proposed delimitation of Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies by the Centre, stated that population should not be the sole criterion for the exercise.Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Monday, Parameshwara said the reason Karnataka is likely to get fewer Lok Sabha seats — around 66 — is due to population being used as the primary criterion. “North India has a higher population, and that is why we are get…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The fall of the National Thowheed Jamath (NJT), which masterminded the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, came as a major relief for the security agencies. The NJT had not only spread its ideology in Sri Lanka, but was active in the southern states, especially in Tamil Nadu. While the NJT remains largely defunct today, the agencies are keeping close tabs on operatives linked to the outfit, prior to its fall.Intelligence inputs suggest that some former operatives are loo…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday raised concerns over a proposed Bill to increase the size of the Lok Sabha, claiming that it could widen the disparity between northern and southern states and place the latter at a political disadvantage. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took to social media platform X to criticise the proposal, alleging that the government plans to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha by 50 per cent, along with a proportional rise in the number of seats…
Hyderabad, March 30 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced on Monday that the state government will introduce a special mechanism to curb food adulteration. Voicing concern over the growing problem of food adulteration, he said the proposed system would be similar to the recently launched enforcement models, such as EAGLE and HYDRAA, to curb drugs and lake encroachments, respectively.In an interaction with media persons, he stated that the government should study existi…
Bengaluru, March 27 (IANS) Terming the Centre’s move on fuel prices as an election gimmick, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Friday alleged that petrol and diesel prices would be increased again immediately after the elections.Addressing the media at the KPCC office and later speaking to reporters at his residence, Shivakumar said: “As soon as the elections are over, the Central government will again raise petrol and diesel prices. They have done this before too. All of thi…