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  • Tension grips State BJP leaders and cadre

    Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in the cadre and leaders since Monday morning over the issue of change of State BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar and handing over it to Union Minister G Kishan Reddy.

    The State leaders are keenly watching the developments in Delhi as Bandi would be inducted into the Union Cabinet and Kishan Reddy would be the new party chief. While Reddy, who is reluctant, remained in the national capital, Bandi left for Delhi on Monday morning, say party sources, though he was informed that he would be going to Mumbai for religious purposes.

    The change of guard has been denied time and again by both Reddy and party national secretary and State party in-charge Tarun Chug; but, differences cropped up within the party between those who have recently joined leaders, like Eatala Rajender, and others, who wanted the party to move forward aggressively against the BRS.

    “Eatala has made it clear to the national party leaders that he and several others had joined BJP with the sole objective of defeating Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS. Any soft-pedalling of BJP towards BRS would not be acceptable to them,” said a former MP.

    Also, the newly joined leaders are insisting that the State party leadership should endear all sections of people and get along with every section to maximise the winning chances of the party in the ensuing assembly elections.

    This amounts to pointing fingers at Bandi’s Hindutva rhetoric, and his repeated assertions that he would continue to talk about it.

    Against this backdrop, the party’s national leadership is holding talks with senior State leaders on the issue. However, the issue has stuck since it did not get the approval of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been appreciative of Bandi leading the party ever since he was appointed.

    It is learnt that a final decision on the thorny issue has been hammered out and placed before Modi for his decision; it is expected to be announced anytime on Monday or Tuesday morning. When contacted the party State in-charge and other BJP MPs continue to remain tightlipped on the issue.

    In Hyderabad, former MP and BJP national executive member AP Jithender Reddy who has been playing a crucial role in organising the Praja Sangrama Yatra as well as the party’s by-elections reportedly called for a meeting of BJP leaders, like former MP Vijayashanti, Eatala, and others following the developments in Delhi.

    Meanwhile, there is an uneasy calm among the cadre and several district leaders over any change of guard at this time.

    Many have been batting for continuation of Bandi; this was conveyed to the national leadership. A top source told to The Hans India, “it is a fact that discussions are on in the party on change of State party chief. Change or no change would be decided before Modi’s public meeting in Warangal,” he added.

  • Srivani Trust Fund controversy: Opposition parties question BJP leader’s stand

    Srivani Trust Fund controversy: Opposition parties question BJP leader’s stand

    Tirupati: TDP leaders criticised TTD for releasing halfbaked white paper on Srivani Trust funds. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, TDP Corporator RC Munikrishna, Tirupati parliamentary constituency official spokesperson V Surendra Naidu and city general secretary Mahesh Yadav have said that TTD has not provided full-fledged information in white paper. They demanded to release a complete white paper on Srivani Trust along with details of all other properties, bank deposits, donations being received through donors etc., TTD should reveal its total worth of assets to the public, they said.

    The TDP leaders also flayed BJP official spokesperson G Bhanu Prakash Reddy for supporting TTD’s stand on Srivani Trust funds and questioned whether he is a spokesman for BJP or TTD. They also questioned the motive behind his stand on the issue when all opposition parties have pointed their fingers at TTD. Other leaders RP Srinivasulu, SVM Sridhar, A Venkata Reddy and others were present. Rayalaseema Porata Samithi convenor P Naveen Kumar Reddy also criticised the TTD for depositing Srivani Trust funds in private banks which he claimed were against the rules. He too questioned the BJP leaders for their support to TTD over Srivani Trust funds.

    Meanwhile, Jana Sena party Tirupati constituency in-charge Kiran Royal took the behaviour of Bhanu Prakash Reddy to Union Home Minister Amith Shah and BJP president JP Nadda in taking TTD side and supported its stand through a statement on Srivani Trust funds. In a tweet, he requested them to look into the issue and take action on the senior BJP leader.

  • Houses of BJP leaders, party offices come under mob attack in Manipur

    Houses of BJP leaders, party offices come under mob attack in Manipur

    GUWAHATI: In strife-torn Manipur, leaders of ruling BJP and its offices are increasingly becoming the targets of frenzied mobs.

    Throughout Friday evening and night, mobs made multiple attempts to target the houses of lawmakers and BJP offices in the Imphal Valley.

    A BJP mandal office in Thongju was vandalised by a mob but another attempt to target the party office at Sinjemai was thwarted by security forces. The alert forces also foiled attempts from mobs to target the houses of minister Thongam Biswajit and BJP state president A Sharda Devi.

    In other incidents, gunfire was reported from Kwakta in Bishnupur district and Kangvai in Churachandpur district throughout Friday night. A mob raided the Iringbam police station in Imphal West district to loot weapons but did not find any. The crowd was later dispersed by the Rapid Action Force.

    Earlier, mobs attacked the houses of three lawmakers.

    On May 25, the house of minister Konthoujam Govindas was vandalised. This was followed by the burning down of the official residence of minister Nemcha Kipgen last Wednesday. Then on Thursday night, the private residence of Union Minister of State for External Affairs RK Ranjan Singh was torched.

    After a series of untoward incidents in Imphal, Army, Assam Rifles and Manipur Rapid Action Force intensified joint patrolling and area domination activities. The forces prevented rioters from congregating till late Friday night. They fought a pitched battle with a mob after the latter had torched a warehouse owned by a retired senior police official. Two civilians were injured.

    Curfew is in force in several districts but mobs are congregating almost every day in Meitei-majority Imphal Valley to target the properties of lawmakers. Locals said people are venting their ire out on the streets as the government failed to check rising inflation, restore normalcy and take actions against militants involved in the violence.

    Some MLAs, mostly from BJP, are camping in New Delhi to seek an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. One of them, Thokchom Radheshyam Singh, said they would request Modi to take all steps for restoring peace in Manipur.

    Meanwhile, the Twitter account of Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) says “@ITLFMediaCell’s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand.”

  • Telangana BJP leaders welcome hike in MSP of various crops

    Telangana BJP leaders welcome hike in MSP of various crops

    Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP leaders, including president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and others have welcomed the Union Cabinet’s decision to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of various crops stating that the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again proved that it was biased towards farmers.

    Bandi said the party’s aim was to double the price of crops compared to the previous government.

    “It is commendable thatthe Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to increase the minimum support price of all crops.

    An increase of Rs 143 perquintal of paddy will benefit Telangana farmers a lot. During the UPA regime, the price of paddy was Rs 1,360/quintal,but recently it was hiked to Rs 2,183.

    This means that the minimum support price for paddy has increased by Rs.823.

    He said the Centre has increased the price of cotton crop from Rs 540 to Rs 640, groundnut to Rs.527, green gram to Rs803, Sesame to Rs 805, Tur to Rs 400.

    The minimum support price of green gram has been increased by 10.4 per cent toRs 8,558.

    The BJP national vice-president DK Aruna said the Centre has been continuously increasing the MSP to provide at least50 per cent profit on crop investment. The MSP on paddy has been increased by Rs 143/quintal. Due to this decision,farmers of Telangana would be getting special benefits, she said.

    The party national executive members Garikapati Mohan Rao,Vivek Venkatswamy stated that the move would benefit the State farmers.

  • House arrest of BJP leaders in Khammam

    House arrest of BJP leaders in Khammam

    Khammam: After the arrested of BJP state unit chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar by the police at Karimnagar. The district police alerted and house arrested to a number of party leaders in the erstwhile Khammam district.

    The party district unit chief Galla Satyanarayana and Kisan Morcha state president Kondapalli Sridhar Reddy and other party leaders were arrested by the police.

    The leaders condemned the arrested party chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar. They alleged the BRS government wontedly troubled the party leaders in house arrests. They said the government failed to conduct all examinations including SSC.

    They demanded to make an inquiry with the sitting judge.

  • One arrested for pelting stones at the convoy of BJP leaders

    One arrested for pelting stones at the convoy of BJP leaders

    Guntur: Guntur Urban SP K Arif Hafeez said that the controversial remarks made by former minister and senior BJP leader Adinarayana Reddy against Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy led to the protest staged by the YSRCP activists in Amaravati on Friday. Addressing the media at DPO in Guntur city on Saturday, he said, when tension prevailed, the police swung into action and brought the situation under control in Amaravati.

    He said provoked by the comments made by Adinarayana Reddy, irate YSRCP activists pelted stones at the convoy in which the BJP national secretary Satya Kumar was traveling. He further said Satyakumar did not come out from the car.

    He said the police have identified the accused Nitin who pelted the stones at the convoy and arrested him based on the footage of CC cameras. Replying to a question, the SP said that the YSRCP activists had no intention to pelt stones on Satyakumar’s car on the seed access road in Amaravati and added that their intention was only to register their protest. He said they will take action against those who abused the Chief Minister as per the Supreme Court’s guidelines. The police registered the complaints lodged by the BJP leaders and YSRCP leaders at Thullur police station and took up investigation.