The Telangana Rashtra Samithi targets the ruling party, Congress, claiming it has cheated them and the people of Telangana through its false promises of a separate state. The party leaders say they will meet the people of the region and tell them that the Cong...
TRS MLA KT Rama Rao said Telangana Congress MPs should follow the DMK MPs who resigned from the UPA over the issue of alleged genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
TRS MLA T Harish Rao gives a twist to the withdrawal of DMK from UPA and also the decision of its MPs to resign from the Cabinet. He quotes similarities between the issue of DMK raising the issue of Tamils in Sri Lanka to suicides by students for the cause of ...
YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayamma reads out from a prepared statement during the debate on the no-confidence motion. Her speech is followed by that of Labour Minister Danam Nagender who says it is unfortunate that the YSR Congress is supporting the ...
Telangana Congress leaders met at Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in Delhi and said that unless Centre takes a decision on the issue of Telangana, they will be forced to take drastic steps. The leaders also decided to seek active cooperation of S Jaipal Reddy in the iss...
Congress chief whip and Sangareddy MLA Jagga Reddy launches a scathing attack on TRS MLA T Harish Rao for trying to malign Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy for the award of the contract for the Polavaram project. Jagga was countered by TRS Ramalinga Reddy who ...
Vayalar Ravi should stop making irrational and ridiculing statements on Telangana, or else the women of Telangana would powder the Congress party into dosa-like batter, warns KCR. The TRS chief was reacting to the recent statements made by Central Congress lea...
Telangana Congress MPs held placards and protested outside the Parliament on the first day of the Budget session of the Parliament. They demanded the tabling of a bill on Telangana and also said there should be no comparison with the other movements for a sepa...
Telangana Congress MPs have met to chalk out a strategy to exert pressure on their party high command for taking a decision on the issue of separate statehood for Telanagana. They MPs are eyeing the party's need for numbers in the Budget session as the lever t...
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana has met top Congress leaders during his visit to Delhi for consultations over the issue of Telanagana. The Congress high command has also invited Chiranjeevi and other leaders from the state for discussions. Botsa will be back in...
The Congress government, which seems to be keen on resolving the Telangana crisis, has invited PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana and AP Governor Narasimhan to Delhi to talk about the issue and also find out about other issues plaguing Andhra Pradesh.
TDP showed photos to claim that Sharmila Reddy faked injuries. The allegations were made by Gali Mudukrishnama Naidu at a press conference. Gali said Sharmila faked injury in her leg during her padyatra in December. The injury had forced Sharmila to cut her pa...
Using photos of Sharmila Reddy visiting her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Chanchaulguda jail, the TDP questioned if Sharmila was really injured, or was just faking injury to her leg to cut short her padyatra last December. TDP's Gali Mudukrishnama Naidu sho...
Sharmila Reddy is back on the road. The sister of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy will continue her padayatra from today. She had to discontinue it on December 14 last year due to an injury. Expectedly, the TRS and dalits have raised objections to her...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Sharmila Reddy has no moral right to conduct a padayatra in the Telangana region, says Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha. She said that the YSR Congress party has not expressed a clear stand on the issue of Telangana and therefo...
Something big on the issue of Telangana is happening in the corridors of power in Delhi. CM Kiran Kumar Reddy landed today morning in Delhi, went direct to meet Ghulam Nabi Azad, and then Sonia Gandhi. The minute he got out, in went Sushil Kumar Shinde. Kiran ...
Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Sonia Gandhi at her 10, Janpath Marg residence in Delhi. The CM landed in Delhi today morning and on arrival, went directly to the house of AICC Andhra Pradesh incharge Ghulam Nabi Azad. The issue of the meeting was Telanga...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy reaches Delhi in a chartered flight. His first meeting would be with AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad. The Centre is consulting fresh leaders from the three regions on the issue of Telangana. The CM was accompanied on th...
The Congress High Command is now ready for what seems to be the final round of consultations on the issue of Telangana. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy had been called to Delhi for consultation and may leave in a chartered flight.
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, Anakapalle MP, Sabbam Hari, talks about the dilemma of a person elected on a Congress ticket working actively for a rival party, Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress party. Hari also answers questions of other YSR C...
Telangana Congress MPs said their stance on resignations over delay in Telangana will continue despite the statement made by Congress spokesperson PC Chacko. K Keshav Rao said they welcome Chacko's statement but only partially, and their resignation letter wil...
Congress spokesperson PC Chacko's statement on Telangana has come in handy for the Telangana Congress MPS who were on the verge of resigning from their seats as well as the Congress party. But Chacko said the process of Telangana is on. Komatireddy clarifies o...
Congress spokesperson PC Chacko's statement on Telangana made yesterday has come in handy for the Telangana Congress MPs who were on the verge of resigning from their seats as well as the Congress party. But Chacko said the process of Telangana is on, and this...
Telangana Congress MPs are meeting in Hyderabad at the residence of K Keshav Rao. The MPs have already submitted their resignation to Sonia Gandhi today morning. But the hints of possible differences within this group of leaders has become the talk in politica...
Two Telangana Congress MPs, Madhu Yaskhi and Ponnam Prabhakar, had gone to Delhi after a call from the High Command. Once there, they said that they were not resigning from their seats or the party. This lead to the other five Telangana Congress MPs becoming r...
Four years ago, when Congress was desperately attempting to woo the voters in Andhra Pradesh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi made a promise to take up the issue of Telangana and give a separate statehood to it as quickly as possible. However, she has failed to a...
Police cases have been filed against KCR for his speech at Indira Park on Monday. The TRS chief's attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family and on people from the Seemandhra region led to a rash of cases being filed in Guntur by Samaikyandhra activists, Congress leade...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy's press conference, called as a show of strength and anger within the Congress party, over the speech made by TRS chief KCR at Indira Park, saw attendance of nearly all Telangana Congress ministers. But missing from the press m...
Ponnam Prabhakar and two other Congress MPs will be going to Delhi to meet the Congress High Command to express their anger over the delay in taking a decision on the issue of Telanagana and to hand over their resignations. Seven MPs had announced on Monday th...
Telangana Congress MPs reach Delhi after the call made by party general secretary Vayalar Ravi. These MPs had been threatening to resign and held meetings over the last two days in Hyderabad. K Keshav Rao had said yesterday it was not possible for them to rema...
Seven Congress MPs from the Telangana region threaten to resign from the Parliament if the government does not announce separate Statehood. Their resignation would put the UPA government in a precarious position at the Centre. Meanwhile, TRS chief K Chandrasek...
Centre Stage | Congress leaders are facing the ire of the locals over their party's failure to deliver a Telangana State. They are now ready to put pressure on the party president Sonia Gandhi, so that a decision is soon made. Seven MPs went through a long hur...
TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao's vitriol on Monday at the 'Samara Deeksha' at Indira Park on the Congress leadership both at the State and the Centre angers the party. The TRS on its part justified KCR's statements saying the Congress had no moral right to talk...
TRS chief KCR's speech at Indira Park where he attacked the Nehru-Gandhi family and called PM Manmohan Singh no better than a 'chaprasi' has riled Congress leaders. Leading the attack are PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and MP Vundavalli Aruna Kumar.
At least three cases have been filed against TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. Nearly all State Congress leaders have attacked KCR for his speech at Indira Park during 'Samara Deeksha'. Specifically the attack on Sonia Gandhi and Nehru-Indira has led to a rash of...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy launches a counter-attack on TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for his speech lampooning the Nehru-Gandhi family at his 'Samara Deeksha' speech at Indira Park. The CM recalled the sacrifices of the Nehru-Gandhi family and of Sonia ...
Feeling the heat and expressing their concern over their future, seven Congress MPs threaten to resign over the Telangana issue. They will be submitting their resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi tomorrow. It has however not been clarified whether th...
Congress MPs from Telangana, who are under increased pressure, are all set to tender their resignations to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. The Congress leaders are confident that Sonia Gandhi will be able to offer some sort of solution to the lingering crisis.
Congress MP Vundavalli Aruna Kumar launches an attack on KCR on Tuesday for his speech at Indira Park during the 'Samara Deeksha' of the TJAC. He says KCR is a just a regional leader and does not have the stature of talking ill of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
The Telangana crisis continues as seven Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh have said that they will send their resignation letters to party President Sonia Gandhi on January 30. The MPs said they would go ahead with their move and reach New Delhi tomorrow to sub...
Vundavalli Aruna Kumar launches a strong attack on K Chandrasekhar Rao who spoke against the State and Central Congress leaders at the 'Samara Deeksha' meeting on Monday. He says every Congressman is hurt with KCR's speech that attacked Nehru, Indira Gandhi an...
TRS has now gone abashedly ahead with bashing the Congress party leaders, both at the state and at the Centre. At the 'Samara Deekhsa' of the Telangana Political JAC at Indira Park in Hyderabad on Monday, KCR alid it thick and fast on the Congress leaders from...
Congress MPs from Telangana on Monday threatened to resign from the party as the protests intensified. Under attacks from the TRS and the Telangana Political JAC, the Telangana Congress MPs have decided to capitulate. The MPs said they will send in their resig...
Under attack from the TRS and T-JAC, Congress leaders - MPs and MLAs - are under pressure. The TRS and T-JAC have declared an open confrontation with Congress MLAs and MPs from the region following Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement on the delay in a decision on Tel...
State ministers from Telanagana region met in the chambers of K Jana Reddy on Monday afternoon. Talking to the media after the meeting, Jana Reddy said the High Command is seized of the situation in the state and also urged the people to be patient. He was als...
This is the fifth part of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao's speech at the 'Samara Deeksha' of the Telanagana JAC at Indira Park on Monday. It is his first speech after the Centre decided to delay the announcement of the decision on Telangana. Full of anger and s...
TRS's Chandrasekhar Rao says that the revenue from Telanagana region is three times of that from the Andhra region. The TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was addressing a gathering at the 'Samara Deeksha' of the Telanagana JAC at Indira Park on Monday. It is his f...
This is third part of the TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao speech at the 'Samara Deeksha' of the Telanagana JAC at Indira Park on Monday. It is his first speech after the Centre decided to delay the announcement of the decision on Telangana. Full of anger and sar...
This is second part of the TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao speech at the 'Samara Deeksha' of the Telanagana JAC at Indira Park on Monday. it is his first speech after the Centre decided to delay the announcement of the decision on Telangana. Full of anger and sa...
This is TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao's first speech after the Centre decided to delay the announcement of the decision on Telangana. Full of anger and sarcasm, KCR unleashes fire on Congress leaders from the state and Centre, and calls Prime Minister Manmohan...
BJP Spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman says that the BJP is supportive of Telangana and also said the party had asked the government to table the bill in the parliament in 2009, when the talks of the formation of Telangana began. She added that the NDA would also...
Protests erupt across Andhra Pradesh, as the Central government fails to reach a decision on carving a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh. The government postpones the final word on the contentious issue, even after Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shind...
The 36-hour 'Samara Deeksha' organised by the Telangana Political JAC at Indira Park saw tense moments on Sunday night when Telangana Congress MPs K Keshav Rao and Ponnam Prabhakar arrived at around 10 PM. Angry crowds stopped their cars. It took pleading from...
The decision on Telangana is eagerly awaited by all and if statements are to be believed, the core party is leaning towards the newly elected Vice President Rahul Gandhi's decision about it and will accept what he decides.
Telangana Congress MPs have got active after the statement made by Ghulam Nabi Azad on a purported delay in the decision on the issue of Telangana. They have written a letter to Sonia Gandhi saying that they would be put in a difficult position if the decision...
Telangana Congress inisters are in a fix. Just as they were able to console their constituents and pro-Telangana protesters, came the statement of the AICC incharge of Andhra Pradesh Congress affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad that the decision may be delayed well beyon...
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi faces the task of handling the sensitive Telangana issue. The Congress leaders have so far been inept at handling the issue and it remains to be seen how the Congress scion handles it. The Congress core group is set to meet...
Top leaders of Congress met at the residence of Sonia Gandhi. At the top of the agenda was the issue of Telangana, the second day the issue is being discussed at the top echelons of the Congress. Here is how the scenario would unfold: this group could take a d...
'Our estimate from the meetings at Delhi is that a delay is possible in the decision over Telangana, and people in all the three regions need maintain harmony, peace and patience, to allow the issue to be resolved', says K Jana Reddy. This senior Congress lead...
TRS MLA KT Rama Rao has said the efforts of the Telangana Congress MLAs to make their High Command see things their way has failed totally, and that the High Command has succumbed to power and money of the Seemandhra MLAs. He was referring to the non-committal...
Stunned by Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that the decision on Telangana may not come before January 28, Congress Seemandhra leaders have decided to stay put in Delhi and re-start lobbying for the sake of keeping the State united. And they have got lucky today: ...
The bandh called by the Samaikyandhra parties and groups on Wednesday saw a moderate response. Educational institutions and business establishment observed voluntary closure. KCR's effigy was burnt in Kadapa. In Vijayawada, students formed a human chain. In Ti...
It's back to protests over the issue of Telangana. Over the last few weeks the wait had been for the Centre to make its decision on Telangana by the end of a month - a deadline given by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. But now with confusing signals emanatin...
Ghulam Nabi Azad has set a cat among the pigeons. Just when the talk was that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde would take a decision on Telangana by January 28, AICC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh Congress affairs, Azad, created a late night flutter yesterday by ...
The Congress High Command in Andhra Pradesh has been invited to attend the Congress core committee meeting at Delhi, and has been asked to attend without fail. The call from Delhi assumes significance in view of the decision on Telangana that is expected to be...
Delhi keeps a dignified silence over the Telangana issue as conflicting views were expressed by its members regarding the issue. For over last few days, Congress leaders from competing regions of Seemandhra and Telanagana camped out in Delhi, meeting up with t...
The answer to when and who will take the final call on Telangana is here. Sonia Gandhi will be the final authority to say a yes or no to Telangana. She will be forwarded a submission made by the Home Minister to her on the issue. Sushil Kumar Shinde's ministry...
Congress' Seemandhra leaders met Andhra Pradesh Congress party affairs in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. The leaders informed that Azad listened to them carefully and asked them to keep strengthen the party and also work to see that Congress wins the elections in 20...
Congress leaders from the Telangana region today met Union Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Delhi. They said they informed Shinde about demand for Telangana state, the unnecessary option of bringing forth a package for development of Telangana. They also d...
Congress leaders from Seemandhra today met Congress general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and said they apprised him of the historical and cultural reasons on why the state should remain united. The leaders of Seemandhra Congress sai...
Congress leaders from Telangana today met the Home Minister at his North Block office in Delhi. Emerging out of the meeting they said they explained to Sushil Kumar Shinde the issues and the injustice to the Telangana region. The leaders also discounted the ar...
Seemandhra leaders today met Manmohan Singh in Delhi and submitted a memorandum to the PM. Speaking after the meeting, minister Shailajanath said they told the PM that only a united state would lead to development of the people and said there were neglected ar...
Is there a gag order on the Seemandhra Congress MPs? When asked why Seemandhra MPs had gathered at the house of MP Ananta Rami Reddy, all Panabaka Lakshmi and the portly Rayapati Sambasiva Rao had to say: He called us over for lunch and the food was good.
Congress' Seemandhra leaders, number about 20, and including MPs and MLAs met general secretary Vyalar Ravi in Delhi to bring to his notice the popular sentiment for keeping Andhra Pradesh united. It was the same Vayalar who had disparaged the earlier movement...
Achil Vandhavai | Congress' Chitan Shivir did not discuss several issues like Telangana much to the disappointment of many regional leaders. Was the meet effective or was it just an ego trip for the Gandhi family. Also discussed, acute power shortage in Tamil ...
Telangana Congress leaders, who were expecting a debate, a mention, or at least a nod on the issue of Telangana from the high command during the Chintan Shivir of the Congress in Jaipur, were disappointed. Not one word was spoken about it. On the other hand, t...
Congress leaders of the Seemandhra region reach Delhi to put pressure on the High Command for not allowing a division of the State to create Telangana. Landing in Hyderabad, these leaders say there are many backward areas in Rayalaseema and also north coastal ...
Congress's Seemandhra leaders are camping in Delhi over the last week, trying to make the Congress High Command see reason in their demand to keep the state united. The Centre is expected to take a decision on the Telangana issue by December 28. The Telangana ...
Veteran Congress leader the coastal districts and one of the two representatives of the Andhra Pradesh Congress at the all-party meeting on Telangana in Delhi, Gade Venkat Reddy, says it is baseless that the Congress party is in favour of Telangana. Gade along...
For the Congress, Andhra Pradesh represents both an opportunity and a crisis. On one hand it is the ruling party, the Opposition TDP is in disarray, and as ruling party it has all the powers to ensure that it comes back the third time. But on the other hand, t...
The two-day long Congress conclave, titled 'Chintan Shivir', will begin today in Jaipur. The conclave is expected to discuss the 2014 general elections, rise of Jagan Mohan Reddy, Telangana statehood, direct cash transfer scheme, and the issues of women securi...
The Telangana Joint Action Committee's silent protest at Hyderabad's Gun Park has ended. The T-JAC was sitting in protest demanding the Centre take a favourable decision on the issue of Telanagana. The 'deeksha' was also meant to put pressure on the Centre, an...
Congress minister TG Venkatesh speaks to media after the end of the meeting of Seemaandhra leaders in Hyderabad today. Venkatesh said the meeting adopted an unanimous resolution of demanding from the Centre that the state stay united. But there were difference...
Congress Seemaandhra leaders met today at MLA Quarters in Hyderabad. Congress MLAs, MLCs and MPS were present. Minister Shailajanath read out the short resolutions decided at the meeting. Reading out in English, Shailajanath said nothing short of united Andhra...
At Delhi, Union Home Secretary RK Singh called to the North Block the state's top IAS and IPS officers for a meeting. The agenda was not disclosed and passed off as a meeting on Maoist activity. But given the fact that a decision on Telangana is expected soon,...
Telangana JAC leaders sat on a silent protest today at Gun Park in Hyderabad. The protest was to force the Centre to take notice of the issue of granting a separate Telangana, and comes weeks before the Centre is expected to announce its verdict in the all-par...
Malladi Vishnu makes a point about relative support for Telangana issue and how a decision to divide the state doesn't benefit the Congress. He says the Congress party won in the Ramachandrapuram and Amalapuram by-elections due to the Congress indecision on Te...
Seemandhra MLAs and MLCs are meeting in Hyderabad's MLA Quarters today to discuss the fallout of any decision that the Centre may take by the end of this month on the issue of Telangana. The TRS has threatened to disrupt the meeting. The Telangana JAC says it ...
It is a decision that is the most eagerly awaited in the recent history of Andhra Pradesh. The Centre will make its stand clear on Telangana by the end of this month. It will decide if the State will be divided, with ramifications for the people, resources sha...
Parties who do not have any links with Andhra Pradesh have come out in support of Telangana. BSP chief Mayawati has said she is in favour of smaller States and during her time a resolution was passed to divide Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati also added that should the...
Senior Congress leader D Srinivas met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday evening and urged her not to go back on the Telangana demand this time around. Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh was also present at the meeting. e meeting has set off sp...
Congress Seemandhra leaders are expected meet the Congress High Command today demanding to keep the state united. Earasu Pratap Reddy, TG Venkatesh and Ghanta Srinivas are at the forefront. The meeting comes in the wake of nearing of the deadline for Home Mini...
Congress minister Danam Nagendar says he has received clear signals from the High Command over the division of the state for the formation of a Telangana state. Danam also told media that Hyderabad would continue to remain the capital for the divided states fo...
Labour minister Danam Nagendar makes a sensational revelation on the issue of Telangana. He tells the media that he has received indications from the Congress high command that a separate Telangana state would be granted but with Hyderabad to be a temporary ca...
YSR Congress party has been accused of being the mastermind of the recent statements of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi that attacked the Hindu religious sentiments. Mysoora Reddy, the YSRCP spokesperson formally says he condemns the speech made by Akbaruddin and al...
Are Akbaruddin Owaisi and his elder brother Akaruddin Owaisi trying to stoke communal passions so as to checkmate the formation of a separate Telangana state? The MIM set about its rallies and meeting across the Telangana region to explain to its supporters wh...
Wrestling with a one-month deadline to resolve its stand on the Telangana issue, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi organised a meeting of senior leaders on Thursday to review the current situation and deliberate on the issue. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde announc...