Former Minister Jupalli to Join TRS For Telangana

Former endowments minister Jupalli Krishna Rao is all set to quit the Congress and join Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Sunday to take up separate Telangana cause in a big way. Along with him, six former ZPTC and MPTC members and some minority cell leaders, besides hundreds of his followers are also likely to join the TRS in Hyderabad.

Sources said hectic parleys are on in Jupalli’s constituency of Kollapur where the former minister has been camping for the last three days to mobilize supporters.
Though Jupalli had contemplated joining TRS two months ago, his supporters dissuaded him. Observers said Jupalli had made his intentions clear on Thursday itself during a press conference at Kollapur when he said he won't hesitate to quit the Congress in support of the Telangana cause. Highly-placed sources told that Jupalli is also in talks with Nagarkurnool MP Manda Jagannatham to woo him to the TRS camp.

Sources said Jupalli held a secret meeting with KCR a week back where he expressed his willingness to join the party. Analysts said since Jupalli hails from the same community (Velama) of KCR, switching of sides from Congress to TRS should be a smooth affair. Insiders said the main reason for Jupalli joining TRS is the total dominance of district politics by minister D K Aruna. Ever since Jupalli resigned as minister on May 30 this year, Aruna has been trying to dominate him. She even got him arrested when he tried to undertake a padayatra in her Gajwel constituency. Upset over the allocation of endowments portfolio, Jupalli first tendered his resignation letter to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi on March 3 this year. Sources said Jupalli is also planning to join former minister Komatireddy’s indefinite fast in Nalgonda.
 

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.