T Employees Strike Notice Puts Cabinet in Dilemma

A group of ministers from the 'scratch' cabinet (as T-region ministers submitted resignations and many of the remaining abstained) met on Thursday to discuss the state government's response to the employees strike notice from August have concluded that the demands raised by the unions do not fall under the purview of the state. Deputy chief minister Damodar Raja Narasimha chaired the meeting in which finance minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy and revenue minister N Raghuveera Reddy also participated.

Government employees working in the Telangana region have served strike notices to the government saying that they would go on strike from August 17 if the Centre fails to announce formation of separate Telangana State before August 1. Officials from general administration, finance, revenue, education and services have informed the Cabinet sub-committee that demands raised by the employees are in the purview of the central government and state can do nothing about this.

The group of ministers discussed the modalities to be followed in case of inviting employee unions for talks. Finally, it was decided to leave the issue to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to decide on talks with unions. The state government has received two notices, one from Secretariat employees four months back and another recently by T-employees' joint action committee. Since most of the service matters were resolved, the ministers were left with no clue on what to discuss with the unions if at all talks are initiated.
 

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.