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...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is targeting the TRS because it filed a no-confidence motion against the Congress government, says TRS MLA Harish Rao. Harish also questioned the funds allotted to the CM's home district of Chitoor for a water supply project.
To protest against the arrest of TJAC and TRS leaders yesterday, in connection with the Sadak Bandh, on the national highway 44, TJAC leaders in Nalgonda carry out a jal satyagraha and get into the Suryapet lake.
The Alampur court refuses bail to TJAC chairman Kodandaram and eight other TRS leaders who were arrested yesterday for the Sadak Bandh or rasta roko enacted by the pro-Telangana parties on the Hyderabad-Alampur national highway 44. The court had remanded them ...
TRS leader Harish Rao says unless the Speaker allows him to make a separate statement in Assembly on the issue of arrest of TRS and TJAC leaders during the Sadak Bandh yesterday, he won't allow the House to function.
TRS and BJP leaders, who remained outside the jail and were not arrested during the Sadak Bandh yesterday, are organising protests across the Telangana region against the arrests and alleged police excesses. BJP leaders gathered out the Mahabubnagar jail where...
Top leaders of the TJAC and TRS were arrested during the Sadak Bandh yesterday and sent to jail after the courts remanded them to judicial custody till April 14. Many non-bailable sections were applied against them. Their lawyers have applied for bail and the ...
TJAC chairman Kodandaram, who led the joint effort from pro-Telangana parties in organising the blocking of the national highway 44 from Alampur to Hyderabad, spoke to media before he was sent to the Mahabubnagar jail. Kodandaram says their arrest violates the...
The Sadak Bandh being organised by the TJAC on the national highway found its echo at the campus of Osmania University, where the TGV students carried out a rally demanding release of arrested leaders.
The Sadak Bandh called by the TJAC is a success, says TRS MLA T Harish Rao. He was arrested by the police on the highway near Shamshabad and then released later. He says the fact that the state government had to deploy a large police force to stop the protest ...
TRS MLA Harish Rao was arrested by police at Shamshabad when he had come to participate in the Sadak Bandh that was called by the TJAC. TRS supporters stalled the police team and argued for over half-an-hour. Police had to use force to take Harish Rao into cus...
Is Anna Hazare, the man who brought the UPA to its knees at Pragati maidan, on the side of the TJAC? People who came to the location of the start of the day-long Sadak Bandh called by the TJAC today, were surprised to see a man in Gandhi cap and white attire s...
Within two hours of the start of the Sadak Bandh or rastra roko called by the TJAC on the highway from Hyderabad to Bangalore, police swooped on the leaders who arrived at the spot, and moved them away from the location. Etela Rajender, Jupally Krishna Rao and...
An SI from Warangal rural police, and posted to Mahabubnagar, as part of bandobast due to today's Sadak Bandh, called by the TJAC, died on duty when he was going in a jeep to reach site of an accident on the highway. SI Chinnappa died on the spot when their po...
TJAC chairman Kodandaram and other leaders were arrested on the route from Kurnool to Alampur. Also arrested earlier were Jupally Krishna Rao and former MP Jitender Reddy. At Shadnagar, KT Rama Rao and Harish Rao were arrested. TRS women supporters who blocked...
This is the situation at 6 AM in Shadnagar, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, on the day when the Telangana JAC has called for a Sadak Bandh to block the national highway 44 between Hyderabad to Alampur, a distance of over 180 kilometres. Police have imposed Sect...
This is the situation at 6 AM in Shamshabad, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, on the day when the Telangana JAC has called for a Sadak Bandh to block the national highway 44 between Hyderabad to Alampur, a distance of over 180 kilometres. Police have imposed Sec...
It is 6 AM at the Alampur toll gate on national highway 44. The TRS has called for a Sadak Bandh for over 11 hours on the 180 kilometer stretch between Alampur and Hyderabad. The Sadak Bandh is to once again give a signal to the Centre to take action on the de...
It is a national highway that connects 13 states, and stretches from Varanasi to Kanyakumari. But today an important limb of the national highway 44 would be closed for over 11 hours. The TJAC, and allied Telangana parties are determined to enforce their Sadak...
The TRS organised a bike rally today in Hyderabad to drum up support for its Sadak Bandh tomorrow on the Hyderabad-Bangalore national highway. TRS MLA KT Rama Rao says the Congress government has failed to even trace the culprits behind the Hyderabad blasts bu...
TRS is planning a rasta roko on the crucial Hyderabad-Bangalore national highway tomorrow. As a preventive measure, police have launched a spate of arrests of TRS leaders and their supporters.
Osmania University students today tried to organise a rally to Gun Park in support of tomorrow's Sadak Bandh being organised by the TRS on the Hyderabad-Bangalore national highway. They were stopped by the police at the OU gate.
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 ...
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, TDP leader Payyavula Keshav is first asked about the TDP staying away from the no-confidence motion that was tabled in the Assembly last Friday. Keshav clarifies why his party stayed away, which allowed the Cong...
During the debate on the no confidence motion tabled by the TRS and YSR Congress, Harish Rao listed out failures of the government. Congress MLA Kanna Babu lavished full praise on party leader K Chiranjeevi.
TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu launches a spirited attack on YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's party and the companies and wealth that Jagan had managed to accumulate in span of less than a decade. He also attacked the state government over the woeful power situation in t...
During the debate on no confidence motion, the Assembly witnessed a curious phenomenon: TDP versus YSR Congress, TDP versus Congress, YSR Congress versus TDP and Congress, and TRS versus Congress and TDP. TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu attacked the YSR Congress...
During the debate on the no confidence motion in the Assembly today, YS Vijayamma is left defending her husband YS Rajasekhara Reddy and son Jagan Mohan Reddy. The YSR Congress had tabled a no confidence motion against the Congress government. Earlier TDP's Mu...
YSR Congress MLA Shobha Nagi Reddy speaks in reply to Labour Danam Nagender's statement. Her statement was interrupted by the TDP MLAs, and Deputy Speaker Batti Vikramarka had to bring peace before Shobha got to resume her speech. Labour minister Danam Nagende...
It is one of the most heated debates in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. The debate over the no confidence motion and the speeches made by the leaders of the TRS and YSR Congress and their replies from the TDP and the Congress party frequently veer to personal att...
TDP's Payyavula Keshav and Mothkupalli Narasimhulu launch a spirited defence of their party chief Chandrababu Naidu. Motkupalli Narasimhulu quotes the Bible in the Assembly during the debate today on the no-confidence motion. Mothkupalli quotes the Bible to sa...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and TRS MLA Harish Rao had an heated argument over the relative lack of development in the Telangana region. Earlier the CM had shouted back at Harish Rao after he accused the CM of neglecting the region. In his retort Harish R...
An unusually angry Kiran Kumar Reddy stopped short of thumping his thighs like actor Balaiah does in his movies. The CM got hot under the collar when he was accused by Etela Rajender of neglecting the Telangana region. He was answering to the diatribes against...
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 ...
Civil Supplies Minister D Sudhir Babu presents the government measures on providing agricultural subsidies and inputs to farmers. He was talking during the debate on the no-confidence motion that was tabled today in the Assembly by the TRS. TRS MLA Harish Rao ...
An unusually angry Kiran Kumar Reddy stopped short of thumping his thighs like actor Balaiah does in his movies. The CM got hot under the collar when he was accused by Etela Rajender of neglecting the Telangana region. He was answering to the diatribes made by...
A very combative and unusually aggressive Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy replies to TRS MLA Harish Rao's diatribe against top political posts in the state being occupied by leaders from the non-Telangana region. CM says it was the Congress that made a person...
This is the start of the proceedings during the tabling of the no-confidence motion by the TRS against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. TRS leader Etela Rajender tables the motion that is followed by a head count. The MLAs of CPI, CPM, BJP, YSR Congress and t...
The real face of the TRS and the YSR Congress has been revealed in their efforts to table a no-confidence motion, says TDP leader Revanth Reddy. He said the motion moved by the TRS had no mention at all of the Telangana issue.
Shobha Nagi Reddy once lay at the feet of Chandrababu Naidu when she was in the TDP and now that she is in the YSR Congress party, she has no right to criticise the TDP party chief, says Seethakka, TDP leader.
TDP's Lingareddy and TRS' KT Rama Rao explain their respective stands on the no-confidence motion. The TDP is the chief Opposition party in the Assembly. The TRS attacks the TDP for acting in support of the ruling Congress. Srinivas Reddy of the BJP attacks th...
The Telugu Desam Party defends its stand on abstaining from supporting the motion of no-confidence, in the Assembly, against the Congress government. Bojjala and Devineni clarify why the TDP plans to abstain during today's motion.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi party, which moved a no-confidence motion against Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, has asked all Opposition parties to unite and support the motion. TRS MLA KT Rama Rao also blasted the Telugu Desam Par...
On the third day of the Budget session of the AP Assembly, Speaker Nadendla Manohar announces the tabling of two no-confidence motions, one from the TRS and another from the YSR Congress.
After presenting to the Assembly Speaker a notice of no-confidence against the Congress government, is the TRS trying to similarly drum up support in Delhi with MPs from non-Congress parties?
Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly today received two notices to table a no-confidence motion against Kiran Kumar Reddy-led government. One was from the TRS and the other from YSR Congress. The Congress, however, is confident of its numbers, but is tense about...
In a frank chat with the media, on the sidelines of the second day of the Budget session, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy says that he is not unduly worried about the no-confidence motion being tabled by the TRS and the YSR Congress. The CM also hinted at a r...
TRS MLA KT Rama Rao explains the injustice to the Telangana region and the state from the Centre in the recent Railway and Union Budgets. He also said the CM failed to obtain the requisite amount of funds for cyclone affected areas of the state.
The TDP has asked its MLAs to remain neutral during the no confidence motion in the Assembly. The TRS has issued notice of no confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government that could come up for discussion in the Assembly tomorrow.
Congress has pointed out that the TRS in its no confidence motion did not mention a word on Telangana in the notice given to the Speaker. The Congress government may face a no confidence motion in the Assembly tomorrow.
The second day of the Budget session of the Assembly was adjourned following hungama. Five parties submitted a joint motion of no-confidence against the government of Kiran Kumar Reddy. But after Speaker disallowed the motion citing rules, the House was thrown...
On the second day of the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, the TRS MLAs rushed to the well of the house and raised slogans against the government of the Kiran Kumar Reddy. They were joined by the TDP MLAs, but they had different reasons for their ...
TDP leader Mothkupalli Narasimhulu speaks after an adjournment during the second day of the Budget session of the Assembly. Mothkupalli demanded release of water for irrigation for Nalgonda and Warangal districts. He said the state government had failed to use...
TRS leader T Harish Rao renewed his demands that the TDP support his party's no confidence motion against the Congress government. Harish reminded TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu of his statement during the padyatra in which he had said the Congress government nee...
Danam Nagender of the Congress says there were just niggling problems in the administration of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government and that the TRS had no clarity or agenda in tabling a no confidence motion.
TRS leader Etela Rajender explains to the media the reasons for his party submitting a notice of no confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
The YSR Congress today issued a notice for no confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. But the motion was disallowed to be tabled today by the Speaker who cited rules that required the notice to be given at least one hour before the start of...
Twenty-five MLAs of the TRS signed on the notice of no confidence motion the party submitted to the Speaker on the second day of the Budget session. The TRS motion was supported by 2 BJP MLAs, CPi and Nagam Janardhan Reddy's party.
This Budget session was to be marked by issues of power shortage and Telangana. But the attention is on the moves of TRS and YSR Congress, who are planning a motion of no-confidence against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. The government is gearing up to shor...
TRS is miffed with the TDP, the main Opposition party in the state Assembly, for declining to support its no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. KCR called TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu a chameleon, said the party's founder NTR would be a...
TRS has tabled a no confidence motion against the state government of chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. But TDP refused to be a part of it. KCR called TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu a 'chameleon' for not helping to bring down the Congress government, it arch riva...
The TRS, and earlier the YSR Congress, sought to use the no confidence motion as a means to blackmail the Congress government and hence the TDP had decided not to support the motion being tabled by the TRS, says Chandrababu Naidu. But TRS chief KCR attacked th...
Congress MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy blasts the TRS MLAs for throwing paper balls on Governor ESL Narasimhan during his address on the first day of the Budget session today. Ponguleti demanded action on the MLAs for their behaviour.
On the first day of the Budget session of the Assembly, Governor ESL Narasimhan delivered his address, that was disrupted by paper balls from the TRS and walkout by the TDP. Chandrababu Naidu says the address has become a mere formality and chief minister Kira...
TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu said the no confidence motion being tabled by the TRS in the budget session is just to seek to blackmail the state government. He also said the YSR Congress supported the motion since it was just seeking to pressure the government...
TRS leader T Harish Rao said state Assembly should have brought forth a resolution on the issue of Telangana in its Budget session. He said the other parties had failed to cooperate to pass an Assembly resolution on the issue that could be sent to the Centre.
The Business Advisory Committee of the state Assembly met today with the Speaker Nadendla Manohar in the chair. In the BAC, the TRS demanded that the Assembly pass a resolution on the issue of Telangana that could be sent to the Centre.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekar Rao confirms that the party is all set to bring in a no-confidence motion against the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh. The state's Budget session will begin today and is expected to be a very stormy one.
TRS MLAs lobbed paper balls at Governor ESL Narasimhan during his address to the Assembly at the start of the Budget session today. TRS said the address did not contain any mention of the demand for Telangana, and pointed out to the unprecedented presence of s...
The Telugu Desam Party boycotts the Governor's address to the state Assembly at the start of the Budget session. TDP leaders address the media to explain the reasons for the boycott, specifically the government's failures to honour its promises made during ear...
The TRS has decided to field a motion of no-confidence against the Congress government of Kiran Kumar Reddy. However, the TDP is not in favour of this decision. An angry TRS takes TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu to task over the party's stance. TRS leaders also re...
Paper balls rent the air at the start of speech by Governor ESL Narasimhan. The Budget session 2013 starts with national anthem, followed by the speech by the Governor. The speech, delivered amidst constant shouts by pro-Telangana parties, lays out the governm...
The Congress is ready with a strategy to combat the Opposition in the Budget session that starts today. The TRS has given a notice to table a motion of no-confidence against the government of Kiran Kumar Reddy. But TDP has remained lukewarm to the proposal and...
The award of the Polavaram project to Russian company Transstroy and the Supreme Court clearance to the Babli irrigation project of the Maharashtra government across the Godavari river are likely to dominate the Budget session that begins today.
Tight security will be in place for the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. More security personnel, CCTV cameras and other security paraphernalia have been put in place, especially as it comes just a few weeks after the blasts at the capital's Dils...
The Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly begins today with an address by the Governor ESL Narasimhan. The sessions ends on March 28. On March 18, Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy will present the vote on account Budget. The Assembly will then re...
The party formed by Jagan Mohan Reddy after he stormed out of the Congress blaming the High Command for side-lining him, the true heir of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, completes two years. For nearly a year now, its president is in jail, and his mother, the honorary p...
Chandrababu Naidu says that the public should now realise that the YSR Congress party and the Congress are in cahoots. He was referring to the statement by YSRCP's honorary president YS Vijayamma that her party would support the Congress after the 2014 general...
Among the leaders who attacked the YSR Congress party's honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi over her interview was Nara Lokesh. Lokesh used twitter to criticize Vijayamma's statement in that interview in which she had said her party would support the Congress ...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy faces a no-confidence motion tomorrow in the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh state Assembly. The motion is being tabled by the TRS which claims it is seeking support from parties such as the BJP, YSRC, CPM and others. Take...
YSR Congress' honorary president YS Vijayamma's interview to an English newspaper that her party was ready to support the Congress after the 2014 general elections has stunned the politics in the state. The TDP says YSR Congress had been exposed as also its pr...
TRS has decided to field a no-confidence motion against the government of Kiran Kumar Reddy in the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. It has sought help from the BJP, CPM, MIM, and other parties to ensure the government falls. The TRS says the moti...
TRS has said it will threaten the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly unless a motion for formation of Telangana is tabled in the Parliament. TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said his party would field a no-confidence motion in the Assembly against the ...
Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao attacks YSR Congress YS Vijayamma, YSR Congress party's honorary president over her suggestion in an interview that she was ready to support the Congress after the 2014 elections. He says the Congress has not asked for t...
The YSR Congress party has come out with a clarification on the statements made by the party's honorary president YS Vijayamma on their party's support to the Congress after the 2014 general elections. Party leader Ambati Rambabu says the interview given by Vi...
TRS leader KT Rama Rao finds fault with the reported statement of YS Vijayamma, the honorary president of the YSR Congress party, that her party would support the Congress in the 2014 general elections. He said the YSRCP is trying to save its president Jagan M...
YS Vijayamma's interview to a newspaper that her party, the YSRCP, was ready to come to an arrangement for the 2014 elections, has revealed the true face of party, says the TDP. P Keshav says YS Vijayamma and Jagan Mohan Reddy reveal their true nature only to ...
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...
TRS attacks the credentials of Transstroy of Russia which was awarded the contract for the Polavaram project last Saturday by the state government. T Harish Rao shows documents that he claims that the experience certificates of the joint venture partner of Tra...
During the discussions for the formation of the Standing Committee of the Andhra Pradesh state Assembly, TRS MLA Harish Rao had a heated argument with Congress leader and chief whip Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, which turned ugly with the former shouting at the la...
Soma company filed a case today in the High Court in the award of the Polavaram project to Transstroy of Russia and its joint venture. The petition was filed citing the hurried, and what Soma called, illegalities in the award of the tender last Saturday. Trans...
Construction company Soma has gone to the High Court against the awarding of the Polavaram project to Transstroy. The tender was awarded to Transstroy on Saturday evening by the Chief Minister after he received reports on the verification of Transstroy's certi...