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Hyderabad, Dec 11 : TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday dedicated the emphatic victory of his party to the people of the state and said the election results would enable it to play a crucial role in national politics.
"We dedicate this victory to the people of Telangana.
This is a positive vote for us," Rao, who is set to return as chief minister for a second term, told a press conference.
The Telangan Rashtra Samithi has secured a two-thirds majority, winning 81 seats out of the total 119 as per the latest vote count in the assembly elections.
The TRS was leading in six others, leaving the others way behind.
According to results and trends available at 5 pm, the Congress won 15 seats and was leading in four while ally TDP bagged two seats.
"We are going to play a very crucial role in the national politics...and we will show...we will give a new definition to the national political scenario," he said, as TRS workers broke into celebrations.
"Today's results...Telangana has shown the way to the whole nation. Today, Telangana stands (as) a non-Congress,non-BJP state," Rao added.
Rao has been one of the votaries of a broad-based non-BJP and non-Congress federal front, and the win would further fortify his position as a regional satrap.
According to results and trends available at 5 pm, the Congress won 15 seats and was leading in four while ally TDP bagged two seats. PTI
Hyderabad, Sep 6: Amid indications of early polls in Telangana, the state cabinet is scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon, a top government official said.
"The Cabinet meet will be at 12.30 pm. I will not be able to share the agenda," Chief Secretary S K Joshi told.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is scheduled to address a press conference at 2.30 PM, official sources said.
Indications are that the cabinet would recommend dissolution of the Legislative Assembly.
Rao is expected to meet Governor ESL Narasimhan with the recommendation. Soon after, he will address the press, the sources said.
Sources in the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) had yesterday claimed that the government has more-or-less made up its mind on dissolution of the assembly, whose term ends next year.
Speculation has been rife about the dissolution of the assembly and early polls for over a fortnight now.
Legislative Assembly polls in Telangana are scheduled to be held simultaneously with Lok Sabha elections next year, but the ruling TRS reportedly sees political benefit in delinking the two polls.
The party captured power in the state in the maiden assembly elections held in May 2014, winning 63 of the 119 seats. (PTI)
Hyderabad, Jul 28: The Telangana government has decided to take up a census of the backward class (BC) population in the state.
A decision in this regard was taken at the meeting of the Telangana cabinet yesterday.
"To take up census of BC population in the state at once," a release from the office of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who chaired the cabinet meeting, said.
A scheme of eye-testing for all the citizens ("Kanti velugu") would also be launched across the state on August 15, it said.
The state cabinet also approved the appointment of special officers in place of those heads of gram panchayats, whose term was coming to an end soon, it added.
According to the release, land not exceeding one acre would be allotted to all recognised political parties at the rate of Rs 100 per yard for construction of their party offices and these party offices would be exempted from property tax.
In accordance with guidelines of earlier governments, land allotment to TRS party in 29 districts for constructing party offices in district headquarters has been approved, it said.
Also, in addition to the existing residential schools for the backward classes in the state, 119 new schools, one per Assembly segment, would be established, it added. (PTI)
Hyderabad, Apr 2: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has instructed the officials
concerned to be on high alert as the state is experiencing widespread rain and
thunderstorms with hails.
The Chief Minister also instructed officials to make
estimates of the crops losses due to the rain and hail storms.
Mr Rao spoke to Chief Secretary S K Joshi on the untimely
rains, hail storms and their impact on the crops losses in the State.
He instructed that estimates about the crops losses suffered
due to untimely hail storms for the past 15 days and losses to be suffered in
the days to come to be prepared. Since the government is ready to give Input
Subsidy to farmers who suffered losses, reports should be prepared and sent to
the government forthwith.
Based on the instructions from the CM, Mr Joshi spoke to all
the District Collectors over phone and asked them to prepare reports on the
crop losses. The CS has instructed that officials’ teams should visit the
affected places to assess the damage, an official statement here said on Monday. UNI
Kolkata, Mar 19: Speculation for a grand anti-BJP alliance across India before the 2019
Parliamentary elections is gaining momentum with the scheduled official meeting
of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and his West Bengal
counterpart Mamata Banerjee here a few hours from now.
The all important meeting is seen as a major step forward
towards an Opposition unity, barely a day after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N
Chandrababu Naidu spoke to AITC supremo on phone.
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) sources today said Telugu
Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu spoke to party supremo Mamata Banerjee to
convey his good wishes and on the future move of the TDP against the BJP-led
NDA government at the Centre.
Incidentally the TDP today moved no-motion confidence motion
against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government in Parliament.
Ms Banerjee, who has been vociferously opposing the Modi
government right from 2014 and led campaign against GST, noteban, Nity Aayog
and various issues related to AADHAR CARD, has already welcomed the Telugu
Desam Party's decision to quit the NDA.
She also urged all opposition parties to work closely
together against "atrocities, economic calamities and political
instability", let loose ballegedly by the BJP government. UNI
New
Delhi, Nov 10: Reacting sharply to the alleged "minority appeasement"
of the Telangana government in declaring Urdu as the second official language
of the southern state, BJP leader Dr Subramanian Swamy on Friday gave a clarion
call to Hindus to unite and "throw out the KCR regime".
"I appeal to Hindus of Telangana to unite....Next elections forget about
being Kamma and Reddy and vote unitedly and throw out him (Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhara Rao)," Dr Swamy told a television channel. The senior BJP leader said the TRS chief and the Telangana's decision is
motivated by the theory that while Muslims can be led towards to vote as a 'block', the Hindus will continue to
remain "divided". "....that is why he is not caring about
Hindus," Dr Swamy said. The sharp reactions from the senior BJP leader came within minutes the news went
viral that the Telangana government would make Urdu the "the second
official language of the state of Telangana". UNI
New Delhi,
Nov 3: Hyderabad will host a three-day conference to discuss urban
transport challenges and solutions from tomorrow.
About 1,000 policy makers including Mayors and Municipal Councilors from the
five southern States, administrators, experts, urban planners, researchers and
technology and service providers from over 20 Indian States and 25 foreign
countries will converge at the iconic HITEX City in Hyderabad for the three day
Conference from tomorrow to discuss issues, challenges and solutions related to
transport and mobility in the cities and towns.
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu will inaugurate the ‘Urban Mobility India
Conference and Expo’ tomorrow.
Telanagana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao and Union Minister of Housing
& Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri will also address the inaugural session
setting the tone for deliberations over the next three days.
Hyderabad was decided as the venue for the tenth UMI Conference and Expo by Mr
Naidu last year when he was the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation, an official from Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said here
on Friday.
Hyderabad is hosing this Conference for the first time since UMI Conference was
introduced in 2008. This Conference is being organized jointly by the Union
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of Telangana and CODATU, a
French Transport Institute.
UMI Conference aims at promoting dissemination of information and exchange of
ideas on urban transport and mobility issues and the best practices being
followed in the cities across the world.
At the Hyderabad Conference, initiatives and experiences in respect of various
aspects of urban transport of 86 cities including 36 foreign cities will be
presented as case studies for detailed discussion. UNI
Hyderabad, Dec 11 : TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday dedicated the emphatic victory of his party to the people of the state and said the election results would enable it to play a crucial role in national politics.
