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Through its wicked plans, the BJP was desperate to win the Munugode bypoll, which was now touted to be the costliest bypoll in the country, he added. Photo: IANS

He was speaking at a protest organized by the TRS in Sansthan Narayanpur, where party activists burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In Adilabad, activists of the TRS staged a sit-in on the National Highway 44 and then burnt effigies of the saffron party. They criticized the BJP for adopting anti-democratic ways to collapse the government formed by TRS.

Besides staging dharans and rasta rokos, effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar were burnt in different places.

The protest, which was held at the new bus station in Sangareddy on Thursday, saw the TRS cadre carrying out a 'funeral procession' Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

He was allegedly offered an amount of Rs.100 crore apart from Central Government civil contract works and other positions for monetary benefits.

Demanding a probe by a sitting High Court judge or the Central Bureau of Investigation into the entire episode, Laxman said his party never lured any TRS MLA to switch over to BJP for monetary gains.

The CCTV footage is from the farmhouse in Aziznagar near Moinabad. The probe so far has indicated that prime suspect Nanda Kumar alias Nandu contacted the four TRS MLAs from an unknown phone and was not using his personal phone.

The case is booked under various Sections of Indian Penal Code and other laws.

Ministers V Srinivas Goud, Gangula Kamalakar, A Indrakaran Reddy , MLC Seri Subhash Reddy and other leaders participated in the rastaroko staged at Choutuppal on Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway.

Accusing the TRS of trying to implicate him in the case , Kishan Reddy said he was unnecessarily being dragged into the issue.

Nalgonda: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday charged that the TRS and BJP were trying to win in Munugode by-election by distributing money and liquor to the voters. At a media conference in Kompally, he said that both BJP and TRS candidates were not new to the people of Munugode […]

Hyderabad: The Aziznagar farmhouse operation of the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be the party’s latest version of the 2015 cash-for-votes scam, in which the Telugu Desam Party had offered Rs.50 lakh to buy the vote of a nominated legislator in the election for the Telangana Legislative Council. Interestingly, the BJP was TDP’s ally then […]

Hyderabad: A covert operation by the Bharatiya Janata Party to buy four legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi was busted on Wednesday, with the MLAs themselves calling in the police, who arrested three persons with a huge amount of cash from a farmhouse at Aziz Nagar on the Moinabad Road. According to Cyberabad Police […]

While the morphed photograph drew ire from the weavers community, Batthula Narayana, a weaver whom the MLA visited in Munugode constituency earlier this week, condemned the false campaign.

Ananda Bhaskar, in a letter to BJP national president JP Nadda on Wednesday, said the Union government had ‘vigorously shown a step-motherly treatment towards Telangana and grabbed away several rightful opportunities from Telangana’.

Hyderabad: The script is exactly the same. And so are the tricks. Barely days after leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi), right from KT Rama Rao to T Harish Rao and Talasani Srinivas Yadav spoke how the people of Munugode would have to be wary of a sympathy drama that the […]

Hyderabad: Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav urged the people of Munugode constituency not to fall for the sympathy drama being enacted by the BJP ahead of the ensuing byelection. He said that even after getting elected, if the TRS government failed to improve the prevailing conditions in the constituency, the people could defeat the […]

The BJP last week cleared its last list of candidates, denying the party ticket to 11 sitting legislators, shifting seats of two ministers, denying nomination to one minister, whose son has been fielded from that constituency, and swapping seats of two veterans owing to infighting.

India is known all over the world for its centuries-old syncretic culture and ethos of assimilation. They define the essence of the idea of India. However, the recent string of hate speeches, targeting minorities, comes as an affront to these core values. Against this grim backdrop, it is heartening that the Supreme Court has taken […]