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The defection of Pocharam Srinivas Reddy at the behest of Revanth Reddy, has seen the BRS demanding Srinivas Reddy to resign and seek re-election as a Congress nominee.

Addressing a press conference, Kishan Reddy said the Centre holds 49 per cent in Singareni and that it was its responsibility as much as it was of the Telangana government to protect the interest of Singareni.

Addressing a news conference at Telangana Bhavan, BRS MLAs said the political loyalties of Pocaharam were always linked to the net benefits he was assured of by a political party.

Former minister Niranjan Reddy pointed out that the government was yet to finalize the modalities for implementation of Rythu Bharosa.

The party leaders demanded him to resign to his MLA post and seek re-election from Banswada electorate.

MLA Chintha Prabhakar said that BRS Chief K Chandrashekhar Rao had launched insurance protection to all the party cadre, to support the families.

The party demanded Bhatti Vikramarka to withdraw his statements unconditionally, terming them baseless and misleading.

CM Revanth Reddy formally offered Congress party scarf to the former Speaker and his son Bhaskar Reddy and welcomed them into party fold

Sources decline to comment about the motive behind Revanth Reddy's visit to the BRS leader's residence

He said Prof Jayashankar dedicated his life to spread the Telangana ideology and played pivotal role in the struggle for Telangana statehood. In a statement, Chandrashekhar Rao termed Prof Jayashankar as the guiding force behind the last leg of Telangana statehood agitation.

The indecisive stand of the government on the issue of bonus for paddy is likely to play havoc with the crop planning during the season.

BRS corporators strongly objected to the Mayor's changing of loyalty by joining Congress from BRS and shouted slogans displaying placards while the meeting was going on.

Praveen Kumar said catapulting a state from the abyss of 5000 MW deficit to the peaks of 20,000 MW capacity was no mean achievement.

He said the BRS would launch State-wide agitation against any such attempts. Addressing a press conference at Telangana Bhavan here on Wednesday, Eshwar pointed out that many students from disadvantaged backgrounds rely on these schools for higher education and better opportunities.

During the Badi Bata programme at Kulcharam mandal headquarters on Wednesday, the BRS cadre protested accusing the officials of ignoring protocol as they did not arrange chairs for the BRS MPP and ZPTC on the stage.

Harish Rao pointed to the brutal killing of G Sanjeev in Utkuru mandal of Narayanapet district, and the public stabbing of Sameer in Hyderabad's Balapur as alarming examples of increasing violence.

The engineering college was sanctioned by the previous BRS government but the current dispensation was not making any move to open the college even after six months.

Harish Rao pointed out that 1.6 lakh students from poor and weaker sections were enrolled in 422 junior colleges across the State.

Speaking to mediapersons at Telangana Bhavan here on Tuesday, Jagadish Reddy explained that without the Chhattisgarh agreement, the State would have paid Rs 17,000 crore for the same amount of electricity.

The BRS leader suspected that the RTC clarification was an attempt to shield the Transport Minister by stating that neither the State government nor the Transport Minister had any role in the process.