TRS demands nine-hour power supply

The party stages protests across region demanding uninterrupted power for farm sector

— Photo: Uppu Damodar

Struggle for power: TRS district unit leaders staging a dharna in front of the Collectorate in Karimnagar on Saturday, demanding continuous nine-hour power supply for the farm sector.

KARIMNAGAR: The TRS Karimnagar district unit leaders staged a dharna in front of the Collectorate here on Saturday demanding the State government to distribute nine hour continuous power supply to the farm sector to protect the standing crops.TRS district president and floor leader in the assembly Etala Rajender, legislator V. Lakshmikantha Rao, MLC N. Laxman Rao and others participated in the dharna.

Erratic supply

Flaying the State government for erratic power supply to the farm sector, they noted that several transformers keep getting damaged in the district due to voltage fluctuations. They demanded government to immediately replace the damaged transformers with new ones.They also demanded the government to purchase the cotton crop from the farmers by providing minimum support price and to provide fresh loans to the farmers whose loans hadbeen waived.

1,000 transformers

Nizamabad Staff Reporter adds: The TRS workers and leaders staged a dharna in front of the Revenue Divisional Office demanding, among other things, seven hours uninterrupted power supply to the farm sector, here on Saturday.Addressing the gathering, the TRS leaders urged the government to sanction 1000 transformers to each district to avoid the recurring damage to electric motors, take measures to repair the damaged transformers within 24 hours.

Support price

Thy also demanded for arrangement to payment of remunerative prices to red jowar, cotton, paddy and sugarcane.The party district president A.S. Posetty, leaders G. Ganga Reddy, M. Rajender Reddy, Vishalini Reddy, S. Lakshmi and Tariq Ansari attended.

Source : The Hindu.

KCR on `thanksgiving' trip in Karimnagar and TRS legislator Etala Rajender and others accompanied him.

Assures villagers of solving their problems on priority

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Receives petitions and has one-on-one interaction

Thanks them for upholding `Telangana pride'

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RESPONSIVE ACTION: TRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao receiving petitions from villagers in Ramannapalli of Sircilla mandal on Monday during his visit to the village as part of his `thanksgiving' programme. - Photo: R.Raju

KARIMNAGAR: TRS president and Karimnagar MP K Chandrashekhar Rao formally launched his `thanksgiving' programme to the voters of the Karimnagar Parliament constituency on Monday evening from Ramannapalli village of Sircilla mandal.

The villagers accorded him a warm reception in Ramannapalli and Desaipalli villages amid drum beats. He hosted a community lunch in Ramannapalli and received several petitions from the villagers and assured them of solving their problems. He had a one-on-one interaction with the petitioners in both the villages.

Advice to parents

He suggested the parents of children suffering from heart ailments to visit Hyderabad so that he would talk to the Yashoda Hospital management and provide the treatment to the children. He also sanctioned community halls and roads in the villages from his MPLADS. He also promised a tricycle to a disabled person on the occasion. He assured of transforming villages, which had unanimously passed a resolution to cast their votes in favour of TRS in the byelection.

Thanks people

Mr Chandrashekhar Rao thanked the people for electing him with a thumping majority and upholding the `Telangana pride.' He said that he would be grateful to the people of Karimnagar for casting their vote in favour of Telangana in spite of the Congress spending crores of rupees in the elections. He said that his re-election with a thumping majority was a blow to the Congress. He also assured of transforming his Karimnagar constituency on all fronts.

In Desaipalli village, he received petitions from the villagers. Women complained to Mr Rao stating that the authorities had begun cutting power supply after the byelection in the district. The TRS president said that they would organise a dharna programme in Sircilla town to pressure the Government to provide assured quality power supply.

He said that he would participate in the dharna in Sircilla demanding assured power supply to farmers and other sections. TRS legislator Etala Rajender and others accompanied him.

Don’t hold back students from attending TRS meetings: KCR

Youth called upon to participate in Statehood movement

Photo: R. Raju

Single-point agenda: TRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao addressing the party’s student wing meeting in Karimnagar town on Saturday. -

KARIMNAGAR: TRS president and Karimnagar MP K. Chandrashekhar Rao has launched a scathing attack against Congress leaders for obstructing the participation of students in the TRS student wing meetings by threatening the college managements.

“We are peacefully conducting the meetings. You cannot suppress the movement with threatening. The Congress would be wiped out of the region and would not get deposits in the coming elections,” he remarked.

Peaceful path

Addressing a mammoth TRS student wing meeting in Ambedkar stadium in Karimnagar town on Saturday, Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao pointed out that “the TRS is a fire and if you touch it you will be reduced to ashes.” Calling upon the students to participate in the Telangana Statehood movement during their spare time, he however cautioned them against taking to violence and asked them to adopt a peaceful path for achieving Telangana in a diplomatic manner.

“The Telangana statehood would be a reality only through political strategy”, he maintained. Flaying the State government for talking about the development of Telangana region, he said that the development of Telangana was the civil right and formation of separate State was its birth right.

He launched a scathing attack against the State government for completing the Yogi Vemana University and Rajiv Institute of Medical Sciences of Kadapa district on a priority basis neglecting the Telangana and NIMS universities of the region. “Is this the development of Telangana region?” He demanded that the Congress Ministers take measures to complete Telangana and NIMS universities and show their sincerity.

Share of water

Expressing concern over the neglect of Telangana region on all fields, he said the government would not disclose our share of water in Krishna and Godavari rivers and it would not provide us employment by implementing the GO 610. “We are left with boggubai (coal mine), Dubai and Mumbai for employment of local youth,” he said.

Social justice

He said that the separate Telangana Statehood movement was launched only to stop immigration of labour, stop suicides by the farmers and weavers. He said that in a separate Telangana State they would provide social justice to all sections of the society. TRS district president Etala Rajender, MP Vinod Kumar and others were also present.

Source : The Hindu.

TRS demands adequate power, fertilizer supply - TRS district president and Legislator Etala Rajender and other leaders participated...

‘Government going back on promises made during elections’

Staging protest: TRS dharna in front of the Collectorate in Sangareddy on Monday.

ADILABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Monday staged a dharna in front of the district Collectorate demanding supply of fertilizers in adequate quantity lifting of power cuts and control of inflation.

Party leaders including Ch. Suhasini Reddy in their address to the agitating activists charged the government of going back on the promises made during the last elections. They criticised the government for failing to meet the demand for fertilizers in the district besides failing to supply power and control rising prices of essentials.

The agitators later submitted a memorandum to the Collector.

Diesel supply

Karimnagar Staff Reporter adds: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi Karimnagar district unit activists have staged a massive dharna in front of the Collectorate here on Monday demanding the government to provide adequate power supply, fertilizers and diesel to the farmers in the district. TRS district president and Legislator Etala Rajender, Medaram Legislator Koppula Eshwar, TRS leaders Surabhi Bhum Rao, N. Laxman Rao, Katla Satish and others participated.

Massive rally

Earlier, the TRS activists took out a massive rally from the Kaman cross roads to the Collectorate raising slogans against the government for failing to provide adequate power supply to the farm sector.

TRS chief inspects flood damage - Nayini Narasimha Reddy, Etala Rajender and others accompanied the TRS chief.

Announces party's relief to victims' families

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Chandrasekhar Rao accuses State Government of failing to bail out flood-hit families in time

Construction of houses, repairs to irrigation tanks sought

Rehabilitation package sought for project displaced

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HELPING HAND: TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao consoling flood-affected people in Karimnagar town on Wednesday. - Photo: R. Raju

KARIMNAGAR: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and former Union Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has alleged that the Government was again betraying people of Telangana region in providing relief to the people and farmers affected by the rains and floods in the district.

The TRS chief visited flood-affected villages of Illanthakunta, Sircilla mandals and also Karimnagar town on Wednesday to inspect the flood damage and console the affected families. He also announced an ex gratia of Rs. 10,000 each to the bereaved family members on behalf of his party and distributed the same to five families in Illanthakunta and Sircilla mandals.

Demands

Talking to newsmen, he demanded that the State Government provide an ex gratia of Rs. 3 lakhs to the families of the people who were killed in the floods. He also demanded construction of houses to all those who lost their houses and a special package to take up repairs of minor irrigation tanks which breached because of poor maintenance by the Government. He also sought removal of sand dunes from the fields on a war-footing.

He alleged that the State Government has betrayed people of the region by not extending Rs 1.5 lakhs compensation to those who lost their lives during the August rains in the district.

Restore pump sets

Referring to the reports about the washing away of some 700 to 800 agricultural pump sets in the floods in the Peddapalli division, he demanded that the government distribute the pump sets to the farmers. He also sought a special package for the fishermen community.

He also sought suitable rehabilitation package for those who were displaced due to the proposed Mid Manair Dam (MMD) reservoir in the district.

The TRS legislators -- Nayini Narasimha Reddy, Etala Rajender, V. Lakshmikantha Rao, K. Lingaiah, K. Eshwar and others accompanied the TRS chief.

Shri Etala Rajender said that the victory in the Council election had proved that the Telangana statehood movement was spreading across the region

Satyanarayana secures a lead of 9,985 votes in Council election

TRS candidate elected from graduates constituency


JUBILANT: TRS candidate and journalist R Satyanarayana surrounded by his supporters after his election to the Legislative Council from the Karimnagar graduates constituency on Monday. — Photo: R.Raju

KARIMNAGAR: TRS candidate and journalist R Satyanarayana has been declared elected as the Legislative Council member from the Karimnagar Graduates Constituency (Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad and Medak districts) on Monday evening.

The counting for the Karimnagar Graduates Constituency began on Sunday morning and continued till Monday evening. Mr Satyanarayana secured a total of 32,007 and his nearest rival Congress candidate Komatireddy Mohan Reddy secured 22,022 votes. Mr Satyanarayana secured a lead of 9,985 votes in the elections. Former MLC V Jagapathi Rao secured 12,873 votes, while BJP candidate P Venkatanarayana Reddy secured 8937 votes.

Invalid votes

Against a total of 67,965 votes polled, about 2418 votes were invalid. A total of 26 candidates remained in the fray. In the total valid votes of 65,547 the TRS candidate secured 32,007 votes and the quota required was 32,774 votes. But the candidate who secured highest votes in the elections was declared as elected following the directions of the Election Commission.

Speaking on the occasion, the TRS candidate termed the victory as Telangana people's victory. He said that the people of Telangana had once again expressed their demand for Statehood in this election. He demanded the UPA Government to take measures for the formation of Telangana.

TRS district president and Kamalapur MLA Etala Rajender also said that the victory in the Council election had proved that the Telangana statehood movement was spreading across the entire region.

Later, the TRS leaders took out a massive victory rally from the Ambedkar stadium to the Telangana Martyrs Memorial in the town with pomp and gaiety. Mr Satyanarayana and others paid floral tributes at the Martyrs' Memorial.

Local journalists, who expressed their solidarity, also participated in the victory procession.

Rousing reception for TRS president in Karimnagar

KCR receives petitions, makes many promises

THANKSGIVING: TRS president and Karimnagar Member of Parliament K. Chandrashekhar Rao interacting with the villagers in Medipalli mandal on Tuesday as part of his thanksgiving visit. — Photo: R. Raju

KARIMNAGAR: TRS president and Karimnagar MP K. Chandrashekhar Rao visited Medipalli, Korutla, Kathalapur, Chandurthi, Vemulawada mandals of the constituency on Tuesday to thank voters.

Villagers accorded him a warm reception everywhere. Women applied tilak on his forehead.

Villages reverberated with slogans of `Jai Telangana' during his visit.

He interacted with villagers, received petitions and promised to solve problems. He thanked the public for re-electing him with a thumping majority.

Beedi issue

He said that he had spoken to the Union Health Minister regarding removal of the skull and crossed bones danger mark on beedi packets. Mr. Reddy reiterated that he would strive to protect the interests of several lakh beedi workers of Telangana.

He also said that he would strive for a drinking water scheme so that each village in Karimnagar would get ample water. TRS district president and legislator Etala Rajender were present.