Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Wednesday said the state government will soon propose two separate Bills to enhance the reservation for backward classes to 42 per cent, and introduce sub categorization of Scheduled Castes to correct the historical underrepresentation of the communities and ensure balanced distribution of reservation benefits.
Rao referred to his daughter K Kavitha’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Delhi Liquor Scam to convince them that his party was not colluding with the BJP.
The Chief Minister today visited Tukkuguda, the venue for the public rally of the Congress on April 6 which will be attended by party MP Rahul Gandhi. The Congress manifesto in Telugu will be released on the same day.
Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao wanted to join NDA,
The summons comes close on the heels of former Deputy CM of Delhi and senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia's arrest by CBI in the case.
Under part of this strategy, Rao today reached Ranchi to meet Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren who heads the Grand Alliance government in the state.
Telangana is faced with a major agrarian crisis. Farmers are being asked to switch from paddy to other crops in the rabi season because there would be no takers for paddy. The government announced on 18 October that it would open 6,500 procurement centres to purchase paddy produced during kharif. So far, the government has opened only 2,500 centres.
Reams will continue to be written on the BJP party machine, its life-and-death approach to contesting elections, and its determined bid to expand its political footprint across the country. But the GHMC results are also in a sense a microcosm of the lay of the electoral land across a majority of states.
Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao said the government was ready to spend any amount to ensure that nobody in the state starves.
There would be no curfew-like situation during the lockdown but more than five persons would not be allowed to assemble, he said.
