Chiranjeevi, Dasari Tussle Comes to Fore Again

The tussle between former central minister Dasari Narayana Rao and cine actor turned politician Chiranjeevi has come to fore once again. Though Dasari tried hard to retain his Rajya Sabha seat for the second time, party high command preferred to send Chiranjeevi to RS in his place. Moreover, Chiranjeevi is likely to be accommodated in the central cabinet as well. All this has caused heart-burn to the former minister, who considers himself to be more deserving than the newcomer in to the party, Chiranjeevi.

A cold war was going on between Dasari and Chiranjeevi since long, as both of them belong to the same community and hail from Palakollu in West Godawari district. First Chiranjeevi cut in to Dasari's community vote bank by floating Praja Rajyam Party. Then he merged it with Congress, which has again resulted in reducing Dasari's prominence in the party. Naturally, the miffed Dasari is now contemplating to retaliate and show his might to the party. For this, he is planning to revive his long-defunct Udayam newspaper and also to make a satirical film on the Congress culture, inform the sources. However, Dasari's detractors say that it is quite common for him to resort to 'blackmail' politics, whenever he is ignored by the party.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.