Jagan MLAs Resignations: Botsa Trying to Take Advantage

According to informed sources, APCC president Botsa Satyanarayana is trying to take advantage of the 26 resignations submitted by MLAs loyal to Jagan Mohan Reddy. The chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is reluctant to face byelections now and Botsa is trying to use this opportunity to consolidate his aim of becoming the next CM.

After announcing that the Congress is in favour of byelections, Botsa had his protege and whip Kondru Murali meet assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Friday morning and urge him to accept the resignations of the Jagan loyalist MLAs so that the move would hasten bypolls. Murali also went to the extent of telling the media after the meeting that he had discussed the resignations issue with the Speaker and that the Congress was sure to win all the seats if the bypolls are held. However, Manohar later denied that he had discussed the resignations issue with Murali when the latter called on him and added that his decision on the resignations will not be influenced by political parties or its leaders.

According to sources close to the PCC chief, he is pressing for bypolls so that it can improve his chances of becoming the CM in the near future. If the Congress fares well in the polls, the PCC chief can take the credit while if it does poorly, the blame would be on the chief minister. But either way, it would give an opportunity to Botsa to go to the people along with Chiranjeevi and build his position ahead of assembly elections in 2014 or a snap poll ahead of it.

On the other hand, from the CM's point of view, byelections at this juncture would pose problems for him rather than strengthen his position. "Due to poor revenue collections, the state coffers are empty and because of this the CM is not in a position to announce any pre-election sops. Therefore, delaying the possibility of facing the people now would be in the best interests of Kiran Kumar," said a CM aide.
 

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.