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The counting of votes began at 8 am in the state.

Andhra Pradesh PCC president Shailajanath and other leaders had demanded the extension of Hyderabad as the combined capital for both States for another 10 years.

Meanwhile, deviating from the annual practice of planting 19 crore to 20 crore saplings under the programme, this year the State government will be planting only 13 crore saplings, citing different reasons, including availability of sites.

Many family members of the martyrs demanded the Congress government to issue identity cards, allot 250 square yards house plots and Rs.25,000 monthly pension as promised in the manifesto.

Blaming the Congress for the death of 370 people in 1969 and over 1000 during the second phase of the Telangana movement, the senior BJP leader demanded former Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tender an apology for the deaths of the people of Telangana.

Sonia Gandhi Wishes Telangana Rapid Development on State Formation Day

As long as the history of Telangana exists, Sonia Gandhi would be recognized and respected as the mother by Telangana society.

Instead the Congress government should strive in executing works for public welfare that could not be taken up by the past government, he said here on Friday.

However, the Congress MLA said all the people, who had fought for Telangana irrespective of their political affiliations, would be felicitated on June 3.

He reminded that the Congress should blamed for backwardness of Telangana and sufferings of its people in undivided Andhra Pradesh over the decades.

As part of the State Formation Day celebrations, the Chief Minister will unfurl the national flag at Parade Grounds at 10 am and receive the guard of honour of the police forces, besides releasing the State song on the occasion.

However, it did not took serious objection to removal of the iconic Charminar from the emblem, stating that it was built by foreign ruler, whereas Kakatiya Arch was built by Indian rulers.

Addressing a news conference along with Anil Jadhav, MLA and Johnson Naik, BRS leader at Telangana Bhavan, he said the farmers were made to stand up in serpentine queues waiting for their turn just to buy one or two packets of cotton seeds.

They are leaking news and deciding the masterminds and culprits, with no concrete evidence. Such allegations without evidence, will not stand legal scrutiny," he said.

The BRS leaders find the release of such crucial information as highly suspicious and indicative of strategic timing meant to overshadow the Congress government’s ongoing issues.

Govt to insist on affidavit for tenant farmers

The party slammed the Congress-led government in the State for putting lives of people at stake for the financial gain of the ruling party and its leaders.

He said Congress leaders who were collecting bribes from people from various sectors, had raised curtains for the massive scam involving the Chief Minister's Office and senior Congress leaders from Delhi.

Addressing a news conference at Telangana Bhavan, he said that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy had managed to fool the electorate during the Assembly elections with 420 false promises.

Telangana maintained a strong focus on capital expenditure, allocating 26.6 per cent of its budget to it, second only to Andhra Pradesh (40 per cent).