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Hyderabad: Lashing out at BJP State president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, TRS MLC and Rythu Bandhu Samithi Chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said the former lacks basic knowledge about food grain procurement. At a time when the Centre went on record saying farmers suicides had come down drastically in Telangana, the BJP State leaders were […]
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Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal (GHMC) Council meeting was adjourned following a verbal duel between corporators of the TRS and the BJP. The Mayor had to adjourn the house after Champapet corporator Madhusudan Reddy from the BJP allegedly insulted the TRS party stole and also criticised TRS corporators for wearing them. Ironically, it was when […]
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Hyderabad: The ‘Maha Dharna’ organised by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Delhi for farmers, garnered nation-wide attention as well as support from various parts of the country on Monday. While the streets of Delhi in the surroundings of Telangana Bhavan where the dharna was held, were filled with flex boards and pink flags, the ‘#OneNationOneProcurement’ […]
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Hyderabad: In a deliberate and brazen attempt to misguide the farmers of Telangana on a day when Telangana took the battle on paddy procurement to New Delhi, union Parliamentary Affairs Minister V Muralidharan on Monday asserted that Centre was willing to bear the entire paddy procurement cost. This is in sharp contrast to what union […]
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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Kisan union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has extended support to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (TRS) protest in New Delhi on Monday and said he will participate in the demonstration demanding that the Central government procure paddy produced in Telangana. Excerpts from an interview: Q: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s demand for uniform […]
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Hyderabad: The political heat in New Delhi will go up several notches on Monday when the entire Telangana State Cabinet, elected representatives of TRS and party leaders embark on an unprecedented day-long ‘Maha Dharna’ against the BJP government at the Centre for its discrimination towards the State in paddy procurement. TRS President and Chief Minister […]
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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Kisan union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has extended support to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (TRS) protest in New Delhi on Monday and said he will participate in the demonstration demanding that the Central government procure paddy produced in Telangana. He also pitched for the uniform procurement policy that is being demanded by […]
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Hyderabad: A determined TRS intensified its agitation against the BJP government at the Centre on its biased paddy procurement policy on Friday, when party leaders, activists, farmers and the general public hoisted black flags atop their residences and major junctions across the 12,769 gram panchayats in the State. They took to the streets in some […]
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Khammam: Following the call given by TRS working president KT Rama Rao the party ranks have displayed black flags at their residences all over erstwhile Khammam district on Friday. Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, Khammam and Kothagudem TRS district presidents Tata Madhusudhan and K Kantha Rao, the local MLAs have asked the party cadres to […]
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Warangal: TRS cadre held protests wearing the black badges, hoisting the back flags and also taking the symbolic ‘funeral procession’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Centre’s decision not to purchase the paddy produced in Yasangi season. As a part of the ongoing protests, TRS party members including the farmers led by Geesugonda TRS […]
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Nalgonda: The TRS members and farmers on Friday hoisted black flags on their houses and burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the main centres of many villages across the district as a part of a protest called by the TRS against the decision of the Centre not to procure paddy of […]
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Hyderabad: Continuing its stir against the Centre over the paddy procurement row, the TRS on Thursday staged protests across the State. The entire party cadre including Ministers, MPs, legislators and other leaders led the protests which were held in 32 district headquarters demanding the union government procure the entire paddy from the State during the […]
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Nalgonda: Home Minister Md. Mohamood Ali on Thursday termed Narendra Modi government as “dushman government” for showing discrimination towards Telangana state. Participating in the protest organised by the TRS at Clock Tower Centre in Nalgonda, he said that Telangana state was achieved through 14 years of long agitation. He reminded that some forces tried to […]
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Khammam: TRS ranks staged protests across erstwhile Khammam demanding the Centre to procure yasangi paddy produced in Telangana. In Khammam a ‘Maha Dharna’ was staged in support of the demand. Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, ZP Chairman L Kamal Raju, the party MLC Tata Madhusudhan, MLAs, K Upender Reddy, S Venkata Veeraiah, L Ramulu Naik, […]
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Karimnagar: Telangana Rashtra Samithi activists organised an innovative protest by pouring water on a buffalo, symbolising the insensitivity of the Center to the plight of farmers on the paddy issue, in Karimnagar on Thursday. Since the central government was not responding to the state government’s repeated appeals and protests for procurement of paddy from Telangana […]
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Protest leads to massive pile-up of vehicles on highways leading to Mumbai, Nagpur, Vijayawada and Bengaluru
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Khammam: The district TRS leaders have planned to stage a ‘Maha Dharna’ at dharna chowk here on Thursday. A preparatory meeting in that connection was held at Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar’s camp office here on Wednesday. SUDA Chairman B Vijay Kumar, senior leader Gundala Krishna, TRS city wing president P Nagaraju and others addressed […]
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Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) launched a struggle demanding the Centre to procure paddy produce only for the benefit of the agrarian community of Telangana. He was speaking at a rasta-roko of the party held on Hyderabad-Nagpur national highway at Kadthal village here on Wednesday. He raised […]
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Hyderabad: The cadres of Telangana Rashtra Samithi along with farmers on Wednesday staged a rasta roko on four national highways at Sangareddy, Nirmal, Suryapet and other districts as part of a series of protests on paddy procurement. Braving the scorching temperatures, they sat for a dharna demanding that the Centre procure the entire paddy from […]
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Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday alleged that both the State and Central governments were trying to play political one-upmanship on the paddy procurement issue. “It is the responsibility of both TRS and BJP government at the State and Centre respectively to procure paddy produced by farmers’ in the State,” he said, speaking […]
