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The former Minister said that they had developed Siddipet into a green town with consistent efforts for over 20 years and that the felling of trees would harm the environment

The Commission said that six members were engaged in an "inappropriate act" by tying a rakhi to Rama Rao, who visited the office in response to a summons issued by the Commission.

Union Minister Kishan Reddy said lake encroachment had been going on in the city for a long time but both the parties never took initiative to clear it

Every death caused due to lack basic facilities and treatment in the hospital should be treated as government sponsored killing. He demanded an ex gratia of Rs.10 lakh in such deaths, said the former Minister

BRS leader Sunitha Lakshma Reddy appealed to the Commission to take up suo moto issues such as attack on the two women journalists at Kondareddypalli and stand up in support of women in the State.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao demanded that the State government cancel the Toll, Operate, Transfer (TOT) lease and call for fresh bids immediately.

During the elections, the Congress party had promised to increase the assistance to Rs.12 lakh per beneficiary and rechristened the scheme as Ambedkar Abhaya Hastham.

The Congress government in Telangana found itself in an embarrassing situation after launching a new emblem for the Sports Authority of Telangana that was discovered to be a freely available image downloaded from the internet.

BRS demanded that the crop loan waiver benefit to be extended to all farmers up to Rs.2 lakh of their outstanding debt in banks as promised by the Congress during the Assembly polls

As part of the state-wide agitation, the BRS leaders including party MLAs, former MLAs, other public representatives, district presidents and workers participated in dharnas staged in constituency headquarters

In Adilabad, BRS district president Jogu Ramanna, participating in a protest, slammed the government for failing to implement the scheme to all farmers as promised at the time of polls.

Agitating farmers entered an argument with the police when the latter prevented farmers and forcefully shifted them from the spot.

The former Minister would also participate in the State-wide protests being organised by the BRS at Alair to hold the State government responsible for its failures to implement the crop loan waiver

BRS has called for a protest across Telangana on Thursday to demand that the state government completely waive off Rs 2 lakh crop loans of all farmers without any restrictions.

The Congress had also found fault with the location of the Yadadri plant, saying that it was far from coal mines which could lead to coal transport costs of over Rs.800 crore per annum, and went to the extent of terming the project unviable.

They alleged that a large number of farmers were excluded from the list of crop loan waiver beneficiaries list. They warned that if the government failed to provide crop loans waivers to all the farmers, they would intensify the agitation

The ED officials acknowledged the complaint and are expected to review the allegations.

Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, who defected to Congress, has been appointed as Agriculture Advisor of State and IAS officers were transferred following orders issued on Tuesday.

Tension prevailed as the the Congress attempted to take a rally via the MLA camp office, where the BRS was organising a meeting with cadre and farmers on the loan waiver issue in Siddipet on Tuesday.

The beneficiaries of the scheme form barely 22 percent of the total farmers. Loans availed by 172 farmers were still to be waived off.