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  1. KCR to go the Chiranjeevi way?

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    / April 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live K Chandrasekhar Rao is preparing to go the Chiranjeevi way. Reliable sources confirm that KCR has in principle agreed to merge Telangana Rashtra Samithi with Congress Party. KCR’s offer was made through a mediator to Congress high command during his recent stay in the national...

  2. Suicides, unfortunately a numbers game

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    / April 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The unfortunate spectre of suicides for the sake of a separate Telangana state returned to haunt India this week. Telangana agitators hoped the Centre would sit up and take note of young lives taking the extreme step, overwhelmed by emotion. But three deaths on Saturday went unnoticed as the media...

  3. 7 down, 17 to go in Andhra Pradesh

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    / March 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    For a party that did not even have a candidate initially to winning the seat by 1800 votes is certainly an achievement. By winning an assembly seat which forms part of K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP has punctured the TRS claim of being the sole spokesperson...

  4. All eyes on Kovur

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    / March 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Earlier this week, I was speaking to a senior leader of Telugu Desam who had just returned to Hyderabad after campaigning in Kovur in Nellore district for ten days for his party candidate S Chandramohan Reddy. “How does it look for you?” I asked. “Prasanna Kumar Reddy (who won on...

  5. TRS fishing in troubled waters

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The proposal of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) to field Kesava Rao as a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections is just an empty balloon being floated by K Chandrasekhar Rao to put pressure on the Congress that it renominate Kesava Rao for another term. Six seats are falling vacant...

  6. Lessons from Lucknow for Hyderabad

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    / March 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In 2009, I was at an election meeting in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, waiting for Rahul Gandhi to arrive when I found Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Man Friday grumbling. Let us call him Mr X here. Mr X started talking about how meetings like these were a waste of YSR’s...

  7. CPI ties up with TRS, dumps TDP

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    / March 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live As was widely expected, CPI has decided to throw its weight, for whatever it is worth, behind TRS in the coming by-polls. A powerful section from Telangana within CPI has been advocating an alliance with TRS for sometime now, and this section strongly feels that the...

  8. TRS survey says party will sweep T bypoll

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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live TRS will sweep the upcoming by-polls in Telagnana, according to a survey published by Namasthe Telangana paper. The opinion poll was conducted by Centurion Data Strategies. However, it was  not mentioned at whose behest the survey was undertaken. The separatist party will rake in 53.2 per...

  9. Telangana: An opportunity lost?

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    / February 11, 2012 / 7 Comments
    “What I did was simple. I declared that the British could not order me about in my own country”, I read Mahatma Gandhi saying, while reading up for my English exam the next day. The Non-cooperation and movement and the later Civil disobedience movement were the coolest schemes ever employed....

  10. PM has insulted people of Telangana

    Posted by K T Rama Rao
    / November 13, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By K T Rama Rao   We totally condemn the attitude of the Prime Minister and his statement that Telangana is not possible without consensus. The Prime Minister refuses to see the reality and is in a state of denial. They have got scant respect, utter disregard for the democratic...

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