Hyderabad: 

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurated a new Secretariat building, 265 feet tall and built over 10.5 lakh square feet in a sprawling 28 acres, in Hyderabad today. “Today is a red letter day in the history of Telangana,” he said after inaugurating the structure.

“The marvel structure of the new Secretariat is the epicentre of the state administration. I feel blessed and fortunate to have inaugurated the wonderful new secretariat,” he added.

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TS BJP president and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, national general secretary Tarun Chugh, Rajya Sabha MP K. Laxman and other leaders inspected the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium at Fatehmaidan to supervise the arrangements being made for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting with the theme ‘Self Respect for the BCs’ scheduled to be held on Tuesday. Earlier, the leaders launched the party campaign vehicles with digital screens for the Assembly elections at the Exhibition Grounds on Monday.

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Hyderabad: 

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a special flight to Hyderabad to meet Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today. On the face of it, it was a lunch meeting. But the timing was crucial – a day after Rahul Gandhi’s declaration that the Congress will not ally with any party close to the state’s ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi and the crisis in the Opposition over the events in Maharashtra.

BRS sources insisted that Mr Yadav’s visit to Hyderabad shows that the Opposition parties realise the importance of KCR and the BRS in their attempt to take on the BJP.

Interestingly, Mr Yadav said on his way to Pragathi Bhavan that they have to find ways to dislodge the BJP government and this was an effort to work towards it. The BRS working president, KT Rama Rao,  however, recently said their effort cannot be to dislodge any party but should be on issues. He also equated the Congress and the BJP, saying both need to go.

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Jagtial: 

Calling Rahul Gandhi a “paper tiger” and one who does not understand local politics, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Chief Minister KCR’s daughter K Kavitha on Saturday continued her attack against the former Congress president as the countdown begins for the Telangana Assembly polls. She also asked the Wayanad MP to reflect on his public statements after Gandhi accused the Telangana government of corruption at a poll rally earlier this week.

“Rahul Gandhi is not a ‘Babbar Sher’; he is a paper tiger. Because whatever anybody writes and gives it to him, that is the only thing he will read and go away with. He does not understand the local situation, he does not understand local politics, and he does not respect or understand the local traditions or culture of this region,” She told ANI on Saturday.

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Hyderabad: On September 18, at a massive rally at Gajwel, the constituency of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), A. Revanth Reddy, president of the state Congress party, sent a strong message to both the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): that the Congress under his leadership would not only strongly challenge the TRS in Telangana, but also the saffron party’s space in the opposition. 

The rally had been organised by the Congress as part of the Dalit Girijana Atma Gaurava Dandora, a gathering of Scheduled Castes and Tribes, in KCR’s home constituency.

While most politicians make grandiose claims in their speeches, it appears that Revanth Reddy is serious about his challenge. After taking over as the state Congress president on June 26, he charted out a marathon agitation from October 2 to December 9 named dharma yudhamor holy war against KCR for reneging on the promise made by his party during the statehood movement to address the problem of unemployment. KCR, who has now been chief minister of Telangana for seven years, was then the face of the statehood movement with his three electrifying promises – neellu, nidhulu, niyamakalu (water, funds jobs).

Revanth was given the reins of the state Congress after the Grand Old party lost two state elections in a row as well as a huge number of its lawmakers to the TRS. For example, when the Congress won 19 assembly seats in the 2018 elections, as many as 12 of them quit and joined KCR’s party.

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The announcement on June 26 that former minister Jupally Krishna Rao, ex-MP Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy and 30 other leaders were deserting the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) for the Congress in Telangana has given a boost to the grand old party ahead of assembly elections due by the year-end.

After back-to-back meetings between president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and other senior party leaders in New Delhi, Rahul welcomed the BRS defectors, led by Srinivasa Reddy, at a large rally in Khammam on July 2. Krishsna Rao and others are to be welcomed formally at another rally in Mahbubnagar later. At the Khammam rally, Rahul mocked the BRS as “BJP Rishtedaar Samithi” and claimed that a Congress win in the Telangana assembly election was a certainty. “The resounding victory of the Congress in Karnataka was propelled by poor people, farmers, labourers, youth, Dalits and minorities vexed with misrule there. The same thing is bound to happen here,” Rahul said. He promised to provide Rs 4,000

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