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Jagan likely to get bail today?

  Finally, CBI appears to be clearing way for Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bail. Today, it submitted a Memo in the court declaring that it has completed its investigation on Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets cases. It also told the court that it did not find any evidences of quid-pro deals in Sandoor Power, Carmel Asia, Brahmani Infra tech, PVP Business Ventures, Classic Reality Company, Mantri developers, Saraswati Power and Industries, RR Global Enterprises and Jubilee Media Communications companies.   However, CBI said these companies have violated some FERA norms and regulations. So, CBI is going to handover its reports to ED and IT departments recommending appropriate action on these companies.   CBI has made it clear that its investigation on Jagan’s disproportionate assets cases is completed. The CBI court is going to declare its decision on Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bail today. Since, the CBI has completed its investigation and told the court and its latest statement may create a positive atmosphere for Jagan.

AP NGOs case adjourned

  The arguments on AP NGOs strike in High Court continue even on the 5th day today, but couldn’t be concluded. The court adjourns the case to Tuesday. AP NGOs has reiterated their stand on continuing the strike until Center revokes its stand on bifurcation of the state. The NGOs are ready to appeal in Supreme Court, if the High Court verdict comes against them.   However, their legal fight in the court is creating unseen pressures on the Seemandhra political executives, who still do not want to quit their posts. They feel isolated by the people and high command as well. Hence, the MPs believe that there is no other option left for them except to resign to their posts.   There is divided talk over resignations. Some of them argues that once the Center makes it official by forwarding the T-note for state assembly approval, it would be apt time for quitting the posts, which they believe will have a good effect on the party and people as well. However, seven MPs have already took Speaker appointment on 11.30 AM on 24th for approving their resignation letters submitted earlier.

Terrorists attack on Kenyan Shopping Mall

  A group of Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorists armed with assault rifles and grenades barged into the 4 storied West Gate Shopping Mall in Westlands neighborhood of Kenyan capital Nairobi and killed more than 68 people including two Indians, Canadians Chinese and French nations on Saturday and held hundreds of people in hostage. Around 175 people were injured in the terrorists’ attacks. Sridhar Natarajan and Nehal Verkaria are the two Indians killed by the terrorists.   The terrorists, who barged into the crowded shopping mall have opened fire killing at least 50 people on the spot and held the rest in hostage. According to Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku, there are around 15 terrorists inside the shopping mall and holding hundreds of hostages. Kenyan Police and armed forces have rescued around 1000 people till Saturday evening. Some fortunate people, who hide in safe places during the attacks, were able have a miracle escape from the shopping mall on Sunday. According to them, the terrorists are in full control of basement and 3rd floor of the shopping mall.   The motive of the attack is in retaliation to Kenyan armed forces operations held in 2010 in Somalia. The al-Shabaab group claims for the attack and hostage. A military spokesman reported on Twitter that by 11 p.m., "most of the hostages have been rescued and security forces have taken control of most parts of the building."  

‘Save Andhra Pradesh’ meeting details

  'Save Andhra Pradesh' meeting held by AP NGOs at Vijayawada on Friday has become a grand success with more than one lakh people participation. The meeting has made it clear that the fight is not for Hyderabad alone, but for keeping the state united. It also owes to continue the agitation till the Center revokes its decision of bifurcation the state.   Chalasani Srinivas flayed TRS president KCR for sowing seeds of hatred among Telugu people with his rude statements. He said the people of the country honors Mother Theresa but couldn’t respect Sonia Gandhi, who is dividing the people. APSRTC union leader Narayana has owed to standby APNGOs’ president Ashok babu and to continue the strike till the Center changes its mind on bifurcation.   Students JAC leader Devineni Avinash has said the students are ready for any sacrifice to stop the Center from dividing the state. He is all praise to womenfolk for their determination and support in continuing the fight. He warned the T-leaders not to take the Seemandhra people for granted. They can give fitting reply to them.   Karem Shivaji has objected T-leaders quoting Dr.Ambedkar’s name for strengthening their arguments of creating Telangana state. He said Dr.Ambedkar has advised only to divide the Presidencies into smaller states on linguistic base but never suggested to divide the states that were once divided.   Several others, who spoke in the meeting, have explained about the problems that Seemandhra people would face if state is divided. They demand the Center to take the people into consideration and not the politicians or else the people are going to teach a good lesson to it in the elections.

No roll back on Telangana: Congress

  Congress high command has once again made it clear that there is no change in its decision of creating Telangana state. “The forthcoming assembly elections in five states will not be an excuse to postpone the bifurcation process. Even Seemandhra MPs, Ministers resignations can’t stop the process. Telangana note will be submitted before Cabinet meeting after taking formal approval from party Chief Sonia Gandhi and PM Dr.Manmohan Singh. Once the note is approved by the Cabinet it will be forwarded to state Assembly. Later, the government will form a Group of ministers to address all the issues mentioned by the Antony Committee,” said the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tiwari yesterday to media at the end of the Cabinet meeting.   The Seemandhra Union ministers like Chiranjeevi, Pallam Raju, Killi Kriparani, Kavuri Sambhasiva rao, JD Sheelam etc, who claim themselves closely associated with Congress high command couldn’t argue that they are unaware of all these decisions taken by their party. When they are holding equivalent posts that of Manish Tiwari, who disclosed all these things, they can’t bluff the people that they were not taken into consideration by the Congress high command.   Hence, his statement makes it clear that the center is as firm as it was on the day one of its announcement on bifurcation, but the Seemandhra MPs and Union Ministers have been keep bluffing their people to escape critism.  

Surprise move by Center on Hyderabad

  Today, the Center has made a surprising move by approving ITIR project worth Rs.2.20 lakh crores for Hyderabad. The project will be implemented in two stages till year 2038. With this Hyderabad will become a major IT hub in the country.   However, the timing of the announcement makes everyone, especially T-leaders suspect about its intentions on Hyderabad. They suspect is the center is trying to lure them by offering such a huge package to make Hyderabad as Union territory. If, the state is divided, then Andhra Pradesh is to be given first preference for such allocations, but Center is granting it to Telangana, even before starting the bifurcation process. This makes many eye brows raise about its intentions. Will the T-leaders take this bait and allow the Center to declare Hyderabad as UT or reject it? Let us see what the idea behind this big bait is.

Development proposals approved by state cabinet

  After a long interval of 3 months, the state cabinet meets today at Secretariat presided by Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Except, six Seemandhra and two Telangana ministers rest of the ministers have attended this meeting.   Minister for Panchayati Raj criticized CM Kiran Kumar Reddy for letting the AP NGOs continue their strike and asked for his explanation about the steps taken by the government to stop the strike. Kiran Kumar Reddy, in his as usual cool manner replied that the same actions have been taken by the government that it has taken while dealing with T-NGOs month long Sakala Janula Samme. Kiran Kumar Reddy said the government did not show lenience with AP NGOs.   Then the cabinet has approved the proposal for up-grading Gannavaram airport with an estimated cost of Rs.280 crores, out of which Rs. 110 crores will be spared for land procurement and rest for developing the infrastructure. The cabinet also granted 7 new polytechnic colleges to the state. The meeting concludes around 12.45 pm.

AP NGOs to hold meeting at Vijayawada today

  Media, which completely dedicates to APNGOs’ ‘Save Andhra Pradesh’ Hyderabad meeting from morning to evening, seems lost its interest in detailing today’s meeting to be held at Vijayawada. Probably, the sensational-news-hungry media might have given a wide coverage to Hyderabad meeting, because it was a showcasing of power by the Seemandhra people and considers it a confrontation between two regions. However, since there would be no such tense moments in today’s meeting, media limits its coverage time to meeting duration only.   Krishna district Samaikyandhra JAC is making elaborate arrangements for the meeting to be held at PWD grounds in Vijayawada at 4 pm Friday. They are expecting around 1 lakh people to the meeting. Several associations like Vijayawada Hoteliers’ Association, Vijayawada Chamber of Commerce, Lawyers’ Association and Indian Medical Association etc are extending their full support to this meeting.   The meeting will go on the same lines of its Hyderabad meeting, while taking review of the developments and situation between the two meetings. Apart from NGO leaders, experts will explain about the problems that may arise if the state is divided in various sectors like irrigation, agriculture, medical and education etc. The organizers of the meeting have announced that though they are keeping all political parties at same distance, if any political leader of any party wants to attend the meeting, they will be welcomed.

Filmy tale of T note.

      Price rise, inflation, law and order situation would be the main focus points in the coming elections. However, the saga of Telangana might turn out to be a real decisive issue when Andhra Pradesh is concerned.   While the common man in the state continues to suffer with paralyzed administration, political leaders seems to be busy cashing in on all opportunities with selfish agendas. Even after 52 days of CWC decision, Rayalseema and Coastal Andhra continues to be paralysed with innovative protests. Heated arguments, exchange of words, name calling seems to be the norm among leaders instead of finding a solution.    The tale of T-note seems to be taking filmy twists and turns. Highly placed sources close to CM camp reveal that there is nothing to worry. "We are not expecting anything to happen soon. The note is still under process. The entire process will take atleast a month, " sources say. The same has been voiced by Seemandhra MPs who have been lobbying in Delhi.  After yet another round of meeting at war room MPs informed media that, "Digvijaya Singh assured us that cabinet note on Telangana will not be tabled until Antony Committee submits the report." Union home minister Shinde also was quick to react saying T note will not be placed in Cabinet meeting as he "has not read through it." However, home ministry sources inform that, Hyderabad is the bone of contention which is definitely giving sleep less nights to politicians.      It is a known fact that CM had made his stand clear by telling high command that there will be lot of problems if state is divided, Hyderabad being the biggest problem.  Like each trouble has a solution, Congress is looking at possible solutions to please the common man and their legislators from the state. While 10 years common capital is still on cards, sources say that home ministry is likely to propose setting up of a counsel for Hyderabad. While Telangana protagonists are crying foul, they have made their stand clear that nothing less than 10 districts with Hyderabad as capital is acceptable to them. At this stage it clearly seems like too many cooks are spoiling the Biryani. Patience running out in common man who is out on streets might not be happy to enjoy the biryani!!   

Akkineni Nageswara Rao 90 Birthday

      Akkineni Nageswara Rao Birthday: Legendary actor Dr Akkineni Nageswara Rao is celebrating his 90th birthday today. Popularly known as ANR, this legendary actor has started working in Telugu movies since 1941. In his 72-year acting career, he pre-dominantly worked in Telugu cinema and has received nation’s highest award for films, ‘Dada Saheb Phalke Award’. ANR has also received NTR National Award in the year 1996 and he is one of rare actors who received Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibushan and Padma Sri Awards. ANR has acted in more than 256 Telugu movies and 26 Tamil movies. ANR was one of the actors who insisted on creating a base for Telugu films in Hyderabad after the formation of Andhra Pradesh. Join your hands to wish the legendary actor ANR on his birthday.

YSRCP to conduct Dharna at Assembly

  YSR congress, which is spearheading with Samaikyandhra agitation, will be conducting a dharna at Assembly on Friday demanding Samaikyandhra. YSRCP leaders led by party honorary president Vijayamma, after garlanding ‘Telugu Talli’ and Dr.Ambedkar statues will march towards Assembly, where they will stage dharna till evening.   Kodali Nani, a senior leader of the party has told the media that their fight will continue till the Congress party rolls back its decision of bifurcation of the state. He flayed Chandrababu for playing double-game with people of Seemandhra by conducting Atma Gourava Yatra, while refusing to withdraw his consent letter given for dividing the state.   YSR Congress party appears to be planning to take their Samaikyandhra agitations to further level with this Dharna program. If so, TDP may also follow the path and may conduct dharnas and rallies in Hyderbad. Ultimately, these developments may provoke TRS and the T-people, with which the situation may worsen further.

IM terrorist Tabrez sent to judicial custody

  Akthar alias Tabrez, one of the two main accused in Dilshukh Nagar twin bombs blasts case, who was nabbed by the NIA sleuths along with another terrorist Yasin Bhatkal recently at Indo-Nepal boarder, has been produced before Nampalli Court yesterday. Replying to a question by prosecution, he said he is aware why he was detained. He said his father is providing legal assistance to him. Earlier, during NIA interrogation, he is reportedly admitted his role in the twin bomb blasts case. The court has sent him to judicial custody till October 17th. He was immediately shifted to Charlapalli Jail amid tight security. NIA has moved a petition in the court seeking ten day custody of the terrorist for further interrogation in connection with Dilshukh Nagar twin bombs blast case.

Are Seemandhra MPS really going to quit

  Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde virtually gave a big shock to Seemandhra leaders, who until now been assured by their high command that it will not go ahead with bifurcation process without addressing their apprehensions and issues raised by them.   However, today Shinde has announced that T-Note is ready on his table long time ago, but he could not go through it as he is not coming to office since last one week due to ill health. He said he will complete his part of work and get it ready for submitting in the Cabinet meeting.   Seemandhra MPs are quite angry for being kept in dark all these days. So, they threaten to resign to their posts, the next moment Home Minister forward the T-Note to Cabinet meeting. Lagadapati Rajagopal, Anantha Venkata Ramireddy, Sai Prathap, Undavalli have took the appointment of Speaker for 24th of this month to submit their resignations.   However the question is shall they disobey their high command? Can their high command afford to lose them that collapse the government? Let us see what they will cook for tomorrow.

Congress leaders meeting ends with stand-off

  As predicted, the meeting between Seemandhra and Telangana Congress leaders concludes without any agreement on bifurcation. Leaders representing Telangana region have insisted their counterparts to obey the CWC decision and to co-operate for creating Telangana state formation.   Seemandhra leaders, who stick to their Samaikyandhra stand, have argued that people of both regions can prosper only by remaining united. They offered to review and rectify the mistakes taken place in implementing Gentlemen Agreement and other agreement made after formation of AP state.   However, T-leaders have said it is too late to talk about those violated agreements. They said if the Seemandhra leaders are willing to co-operate for Telangana state formation, they can proceed ahead with their talks.   Seemandhra leaders also argued in the same lines asking to agree for Samaikyandhra. Hence, the meeting concludes with a stand-off on bifurcation. However, they have unanimously agreed to defend their party Chief Sonia Gandhi from their rival party attacks.   Ganta Srinivasa rao, Erasu Pratap Reddy, MLC Rudraraju Padma Raju, Jana Reddy, Sridhar babu, Basavaraju Saraiah and some others attend this meeting held at Ministers’ quarters, Hyderabad.

Dinesh Reddy welcomes CBI inquiry

  In wake of CBI inquiry initiated against his disproportionate assets, following the Supreme Court’s orders, DGP Dinesh Reddy holds press meet today to clear the air. He stated that he is not worried about CBI inquiry because he doesn’t have any disproportionate assets. He said he will come clean in the CBI inquiry. “Even before, I assume this post several complaints have been lodged against me with Home Ministry to stop my appointment. Then, a case was filed in Supreme Court against me by an officer for finding fault with him forgery case. Out of the 542 sale deeds that he mentioned in his petition filed against me, I am involved in only one sale agreement of 7 acres of land,” said Dinesh Reddy. If, he is confident of his clean record, then the CBI inquiry into his assets will be really helpful to him, if it gives him a clean chit. However, if he was found fault by CBI, then it will the beginning of his downfall.

Is BJP to ready for a patch-up with Yeddi

  Karnataka former CM Yeddyurappa, who was forced to step down on corrupt charges also quits BJP and takes upon it in the recent Assembly elections. Though, he couldn’t win the elections he has played spoilsport against BJP. Later he regrets for coming out of BJP and hence has been desperately trying for a patch-up. He is leaving no chance to come close to it. But, his tainted political background scares BJP and keeps it away from him until now. Especially senior BJP leader LK Advani opposes his readmission into party.   However, it doesn’t stop him from trying to return to party fold. Then he changed his game plan and chooses Narendra Modi, who is named for the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party. He believes that if he can woo Modi, no one including Advani can stop his reentry into party. Yeddurappa showers praises on Modi and hints that his party supports him as PM of the country. He also states that his party is willing for poll alliance with BJP, which will be helpful to both.   It is learnt that though he is able to cut into ice, BJP do not wants to jump for him with assembly elections for the five states are round the corner. It fears any move in his favor would provide a weapon to its rivals. However, its silence is also considered to be a kind of positive response.   Despite his tainted political back ground, BJP couldn’t afford to maintain enmity with him because of the strong support powerful Lingayat community that he enjoys. Hence, BJP may make a move for a patch-up with the tainted just before the 2014 general elections, as it badly needs maximum number of MP seats to claim power at Center.

Seemandhra and T-Congress meeting in progress

  A meeting between Congress ministers of both regions begins short while ago at Ministers’ quarters in Hyderabad. Ganta Srinivasa rao and Erasu Prathap Reddy from Seemandhra and K.Jana Reddy and few others from Telangana have come to attend this meeting.   The meeting is intended to develop consensus between leaders of both regions and then to chalk out the issues between Seemandhra and Telangana regions aroused of bifurcation decision. If, they could make any progress in their talks, definitely it is going to help the Congress party, rather than the people of the state. But, the rigid stand taken by leaders of both sides may not give enough scope for proceeding ahead with negotiations.   Moreover, none of them can give any assurance to the other on any issue because they don’t have backing of the people. The delay taking place in bifurcation process and the Congress high command gradual turn around on its announcement makes Telangana people fume on the Congress leaders. At the same time, Seemandhra Ministers reluctance to step down from their posts and Congress party’s determination to divide the state, makes Seemandhra people fume on the Congress leaders. Hence, the leaders who sat for meeting now with their counterparts may not afford to compromise on any issue related to bifurcation of the state.   So, the meeting may ends up without any significant developments. At the most they may unanimously agree to meet again soon.

AP HC recalls order

In a first ever in history, AP HC recalls its order staying compensation to Muslim youth wrongly accused in 2007 Mecca masjd blast case. The bench has now decide to make the beneficiaries as respondents in the case and given them 2 weeks notice after high a fresh order may be expected.

Demand for T-MPs, Ministers’ resignation

  So far, Samaikyandhra activists have been demanding the Seemandhra MPs and Ministers to quit their posts in wake of Home Minister Shinde’s statement about his readiness to submit T-Note in the Cabinet meeting. However, including CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, Veerappa Moily and the Seemandhra MPs and Ministers have been assuring the people that T-Note will not be submitted to Cabinet in the near future. As if acknowledging their assurances the cabinet meeting has been cancelled for some other reasons.   Therefore, now the ball falls in the T-Congress leaders’ court. So far, they have been boasting that because of their efforts, Center has declared Telangana formation. But, the TRS and T-JAC leaders, who become impatient with the delay taking place in bifurcation process, now asking them what they are doing to speed-up the process. Former minister Komati Reddy Venkata Reddy has demanded for their resignations.   He said if the T-Note is not submitted in the Cabinet meeting, then they should immediately step down from their posts, otherwise he will ask the T-people to stage dharnas in front of their houses. He demands the T-leaders to stress the UPA government for speed-up the bifurcation process before it succumbs to Seemandhra leaders’ pressures.