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HYDERABAD: TPCC chief B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Wednesday directed his party cadre to intensify the "Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod" campaign launched by AICC leader Rahul Gandhi. He urged the cadre to take out statewide rallies to expose irregularities in electoral rolls ahead of Independence Day. The TPCC chief, along with AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan, held a video conference with the DCC presidents. The conference was also attended by ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Adluri Laxman Kumar. He said that the "Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod" campaign will be carried out in three stages, starting with a candlelight rally on August 14. He said that elected representatives at all levels should participate in the protest to be held between August 22 to September 7 to expose the "BJP-ECI collusion". He said that there will be a national-level campaign from September 15 to October 15. The TPCC chief also directed the DCC chiefs to appoint village-, mandal-level committees. He also requested the party leaders to actively engage in rain relief- related activities.
Mumbai: A day after leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi alleged "match fixing" between BJP and ECI, state Congress chief Harshawardhan Sapkal on Sunday demanded narco tests on chief electoral officer (CEO) S Chockalingam and then additional CEO Kiran Kulkarni to expose the truth in Maharashtra's "vote theft" in the 2024 assembly election.Sapkal said it is BJP and CM Devendra Fadnavis who have jumped in with rebuttals, instead of the election watchdog. Fadnavis had on Saturday called Rahul's allegations an outright lie and in an article published in a national newspaper and a ...Read More >
Mysuru: Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly R. Ashoka has called All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Mallikarjuna Kharge as 'accidental AICC President' mocking his statement that nobody should speak about change of Chief Minister in the State and as it is not easy to understand the thought process of the High Command. "It appears that the Congress has given another 'accidental leader' to the nation. The first one was Dr. Manmohan Singh. Though he was the Prime Minister of India, he had no power. Another is Mallikarjuna Kharge, the present AICC President. ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): While hearing the Directorate of Enforcement's (ED) arguments on a money laundering complaint in the National Herald case, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court raised certain queries to the ED about the shareholding of Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and whether the Congress party was a victim, as it had given a loan to AJL. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju submitted that there was a conspiracy to siphon off the assets of AJL, a company with assets worth Rs 2000 crore, a fact known to Congress leaders. Special Judge Vishal Gogne heard the arguments at lengt ...Read More >
Itanagar, Jun 7 (PTI) The flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh improved on Saturday with water levels of most rivers receding, even as 33,000 people in 24 districts remained affected, officials said. Twelve people lost their lives and one person went missing in rain-related incidents, including landslides, after the monsoon set in, they said. In its daily report, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said 33,200 people in 215 villages remained affected due to floods and landslides in the state. The water levels of most major rivers and their tributaries were showing a receding trend o ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A group of unidentified assailants allegedly linked to the BRS attacked the Mahaa News channel office on Road No. 76 in Jubilee Hills here on Saturday. Reportedly armed with sticks and stones, vandalised property and causing injuries to several staff members. The assault, carried out in broad daylight, has sent shockwaves across journalistic, political and civil society groups, raising concerns over press freedom and democratic rights in Telangana. The attack occurred shortly after BRS working president and MLA K.T. Rama Rao in a post on social media criticised a bulletin aired by ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Odisha on July 11, as part of the Congress party's national campaign. The Congress leader is likely to attend a public rally titled 'Save the Constitution' to be held at the Baramunda Ground in Bhubaneswar. The rally will also be attended by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge and party General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal. Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Bhakta Charan Das on Tuesday shared the update, confirming the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday alleged Sonia and Rahul Gandhi wanted to usurp the assets of Associated Journals Limited (AJL), a Rs 2,000 crore company, the publisher of National Herald newspaper. Special judge Vishal Gogne was hearing the submissions on the point of cognisance in the National Herald case. Additional solicitor general S V Raju said a conspiracy was hatched to form Young Indian Private Limited in which the Gandhis held 76 per cent shares to usurp the assets of AJL, which took a Rs 90 crore loan from the All India Congress Committee (AICC) desp ...Read More >
Hyderabad: In light of a widening rift between Minister Konda Surekha and numerous legislators from the erstwhile Warangal district, the Minister, accompanied by her husband and former MLC Konda Murali, met with AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday. Reaffirming their unwavering loyalty to the party, the couple accused 'turncoats' from other parties of undermining their position within the Minister's constituency in Warangal. They have demanded stringent disciplinary action against these detractors, alleging their involvement in "anti-party" acti ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday said authorities cannot go against demolition orders issued by courts and stressed that displaced residents have been provided accommodation.Her words came in the wake of the recent Madrasi Camp demolition for which the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has criticised her. AAP has targeted Gupta, and alleged that the displaced Madrasi Camp residents were provided homes in faraway Narela, and those lack basic amenities.Attending an event to mark the construction of a Jan Sewa camp at a slum cluster in the Haiderpur area, Gupta told reporters: "In t ...Read More >
The United States recently updated its travel advisory for India. The Ministry of External Affairs acknowledged the update. The US advises its citizens to exercise caution due to crime and terrorism. Certain areas are marked as high-risk. The advisory level for India remains unchanged. It has been at level 2 for several years.Travel advisories are periodically issued by countries based on their "assessment of various factors", and "we have noted" that the US has updated the travel advisory for In ...Read More >
Bhopal, Jan 17 (VOICE) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Madhya Pradesh minister Vishvas Sarang on Friday accused the Congress of using Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's name for its "survival" in politics.Sarang, who is the Sports and Youth Welfare Minister in Chief Minister Mohan Yadav-led Cabinet, said history reveals that the Congress has shown respect neither towards Dr. Ambedkar nor the Constitution framed under his leadership. "Jawaharlal Nehru even tried to stop Dr. Ambedkar's entry into the Parliamentary and for that, he conspired to defeat him in the general elections. Nehru insulted Dr. Am ...Read More >
Karimnagar: The state government is making significant progress in tackling the unemployment problem, while simultaneously fostering regional development, said irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Karimnagar district in-charge, here on Monday. He was addressing a rally that was taken out by the Congress for the Graduate MLC seat candidate V. Narendar Reddy from SRR College grounds to the collectorate, where he filed his nomination papers. Present on the occasion were TPCC chief B. Mahesh Kumar, ministers Duddilla Sridhar Babu, Ponnam Prabhakar, Konda Surekha, Seethakka and Jupally Krish ...Read More >
After the banned CPI (Maoist)'s general secretary Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in an encounter with security forces on May 22, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated that Naxalism will be eliminated from the country by March 31, 2026. In the Congress-ruled Telangana, however, B Mahesh Kumar Goud, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, says that the government should not use iron fist to wipe out Maoists but deal with them through "legal and constitutional means". He has urged the Centre to hold "peace talks" with the Maoists and declare a "ceasefire" w ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Saturday claimed that Maharashtra's democracy was "butchered" in the 2024 assembly polls. He was referring to an article in the Indian Express by Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, who alleged that the Maharashtra polls were a "blueprint for rigging democracy". In the article, Gandhi said this poll "match-fixing" would next happen in the Bihar elections and "anywhere the BJP is losing". "With irrefutable facts and unflinching clarity, Rahul Gandhi has exposed a chilling truth: the mandate of the people in Maharash ...Read More >
Srinagar, June 7: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, on Saturday, congratulated the University of Kashmir for getting an A++ grade in the NAAC inspection. The Lt Governor extended his heartiest congratulations to the Vice Chancellor, faculty, staff, and students of the University of Kashmir for attaining the prestigious A++ Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), and securing an outstanding Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.68 on a seven-point scale. Calling it a proud moment for J&K UT, the Lt Governor said, "The A++ Grade places the Un ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: In a sharp reaction to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's criticism of Telangana Congress' appeal for initiating talks with Maoists, TPCC chief B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Monday wondered why a ceasefire and peace talks were not possible with left wing extremists, who are Indian citizens. He asked: "When the same is possible with Pakistan with the intervention of US President Donald J Trump, why not with Maoists?" Speaking to the media on Monday after inspecting the arrangements for the proposed public meeting on July 4 at LB Stadium alongside ministers Ponnam Prabhakar, Vakiti Srihari, M ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Sigachi Industries said on Wednesday that the blast at its facility at Pashamylaram in Telangana resulted in the death of 40 people and left 33 injured. The company issued a brief statement, the first since the blast rocked the facility at Pashamyalaram industrial area in Sangareddy district near Hyderabad on Monday. "It is with anguish that we share details of the accident that occurred at the Sigachi Industries facility in Pashamylaram, Telangana, resulting in the loss of 40 valued team members and one that left over 33 injured," it said. "Our thoughts are with those affected b ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge arrived in Hyderabad on Thursday to attend the Samajika Nyaya Samarabheri public meeting at LB Stadium on Friday. Ahead of the event, he will participate in the TPCC Political Affairs Committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and others welcomed Kharge at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. Ministerial aspirants lobby Kharge A few Congress MLAs -- Prem Sagar Rao, Malreddy Ranga Reddy, Balu Naik and Ram Mohan Reddy -- aspiring for mi ...Read More >
Hyderabad: After a carefully calibrated Cabinet expansion, providing representation to marginalised sections, the senior Congress leadership reached out to aspirants who did not make it to manage internal party dynamics. While legislators like Sudarshan Reddy, Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, Malreddy Ranga Reddy, and Premsagar Rao -- all from upper castes -- aspired for Cabinet posts, the party prioritised social justice by inducting Dr Gaddam Vivek Venkatswamy, Adluri Lakshman Kumar, and Vakiti Srihari. The induction of three ministers -- two from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community and one fro ...Read More >
Kolkata, June 28: A political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal after a woman accused Padma Shree awardee monk Kartik Maharaj, who is posted with the Murshidabad unit of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, of allegedly raping her 12 times for six months in 2013. As per the police complaint lodged by the woman, Kartik Maharaj raped her multiple times 12 years ago promising her a job at a local school. The ruling Trinamool Congress is highlighting the issue in a major way and accusing the BJP of being silent on it since the accused monk had been reportedly close to the saffron party. The woman accusin ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Infighting within the ruling Congress party came out in the open in Karnataka on Tuesday, with MLAs from Deputy Chief Minister and State Congress President D.K. Shivakumar's camp calling for a leadership change in the state. The development has gained significance as AICC General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala is holding one-on-one meetings with party MLAs for the second consecutive day in Bengaluru. Iqbal Hussain, MLA from Ramanagara and a close associate of Deputy CM Shivakumar, openly stated that there is a need for a change in ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 1 (ANI): Amid mounting speculations of possible change in state leadership, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday clarified that the dicussions held during the recently concluded meeting of Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala with party MLAs were not about cabinet reshuffle, but instead it was concerned with organisational aspects of the party. 'AICC general secretaries are meeting to discuss party organisation issues and accept requests from MLAs, but there is no discussion about changing the CM or expanding the cabinet,' Shivak ...Read More >
Hyderabad: With an aim to strengthen the Congress in the state further, All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge will be addressing the meeting of party's village presidents and other leaders at L B Stadium on Friday. Touted to be unique and the first of its kind in the country, this gathering was named as 'Samajika Nyaya Samara Bheri'. It is expected to be attended by some 15,000 participants, mostly partymen from party heads at village level to ministers and top state leadership. Kharge, who is the chief guest of this key event, arrived in the city on Thursday evening. He ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 4 (ANI): Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday came down heavily on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) over its pitch to reconsider the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution while saying that it was 'all talk'. He dared and challenged RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale and top leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the centre to remove the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble. 'Days before, I heard that some RSS person said that we should remove Secular and Socialist words from ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 4: Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha Friday said that he was proud to see women breaking barriers in agricultural sciences and technology. In his address at the 6th convocation ceremony of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K), the LG said, "Proud to see our daughters breaking barriers and achieving success in Agricultural Science and Technology. It reflects a bright future for J&K and the nation." During the convocation, of the 5250 degrees of undergraduate, master's, and PhD, 2661 degrees were awarded to women, of the 150 stu ...Read More >
After the banned CPI (Maoist)'s general secretary Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in an encounter between Maoists and security forces on May 22, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated that Naxalism will be eliminated from the country by March 31, 2026. In the Congress-ruled Telangana, however, B Mahesh Kumar Goud, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, says that the government should not use iron fist to wipe out Maoists but deal with them through "legal and constitutional means". He has urged the Centre to hold "peace talks" with the Maoists and declare ...Read More >
Imphal, June 7 (UNI) Three militants were nabbed in separate incidents during the last 24 hours in Manipur, police said on Saturday. Manipur Police arrested a militant from Moidangpok Awang Leikai from Khumbong Bazar under Imphal West District, they said. Security forces arrested a militant from the Elangkhanpokpi Mayai Leikai area under Kakching district. Security forces apprehended a militant from Wangoo Samushang in Bishnupur district and elected members from Kumbi area. In an operation, one M16 rifle, one bolt-action rifle, three pull-mechanism rifles, three improvised mortars, and fiv ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Ravindra Chavan is all set to become the next Maharashtra BJP chief as he filed his nomination for the post of party's state president on Monday. Mr. Chavan presented the nomination forms to Union Minister Kiran Rijiju, who has been appointed as a central observer for the elections by the BJP. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and outgoing party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule were present on this occasion. With no other nomination being filed for the post, Mr. Chavan is certain to become the next state president of Maharashtra BJP, said party leaders. The ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: TPCC president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Thursday alleged that former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and former minister T Harish Rao pursued a lopsided policy during the BRS regime, which allowed the Andhra Pradesh government to go ahead with the Godavari-Banakacherla (G-B) project, harming Telangana's interests. Addressing the media, Mahesh Goud alleged that KCR, during a visit to former minister RK Roja's residence in AP, had promised to turn Rayalaseema into "Ratanalaseema" while compromising Telangana's share in Godavari waters. The TPCC chief also targeted the BJP for not a ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge is believed to have asked the Congress government in the state to go for local body elections only after implementing 42 per cent BC reservations as promised. Addressing the TPCC Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting held here on Friday, Kharge also set specific targets for the party -- winning local body elections as well as the Jubilee Hills bypoll. The PAC meeting was also attended by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, his Cabinet colleagues, TPCC chief B Mahesh Kumar Goud, AICC general secretary KC Venugopal and AICC Telangana in-charge Meena ...Read More >