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Hyderabad: Braving the searing summer heat, Ministers, TRS leaders and party workers hit the streets to stage protests across Telangana on Monday demanding that the BJP government at the Centre procure the entire paddy produced during Yasangi season in the State. Minister and TRS leaders accompanied by party workers held placards and raised slogans against […]

Hyderabad: TRS MPs on Monday served notice to move a privilege motion against union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal for deliberately misleading the Parliament and Members over the issue of export of boiled rice to other countries. In a letter to Lok Speaker Om Birla, the TRS MPs including Prabhakar […]

Hyderabad: Standing by its statement of sparing no efforts to force the Centre to buy every grain of paddy produced in the State, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has decided to intensify its agitation on the paddy issue from Monday. The detailed plan of action was disclosed by the party working president and minister KT […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that under Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-I, road works covering a length of 568 km costing Rs. 9,906 crore were awarded in Telangana. Of these, works covering a length of about 336 km have been completed. In all, works covering 2,178 km were envisaged […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) continued to its tirade against the double standards of the BJP-led union government and demanded for a discussion on categorisation of scheduled castes in the Parliament. The TRS MPs moved an adjournment motion in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Thursday in this regard. After the motions were […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Wednesday demanded that the union government take up a nation-wide caste census and revise the reservations for various castes accordingly. The party moved a motion for suspension of rules to discuss caste census in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in this regard, reminding that the BJP government at […]

Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao found fault with Congress former president Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s remarks on the ongoing paddy procurement issue, terming that he was clearly misinformed and misguided on ground realities. Rahul Gandhi criticised both the TRS and BJP governments for politicising the issue. In a series of […]

Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s uninformed comments on the contentious paddy procurement issue on Tuesday triggered a war of words between the TRS and Congress leaders in social media platforms, with the pink party castigating the MP for not taking a stand on the crucial ‘One Nation, One Procurement’ policy sought by Chief Minister K […]

Khammam: Protests by Left and other political parties continued in erstwhile Khammam district on the second on Tuesday as part of the two-day nationwide strike. A massive protest rally was taken out by trade unions of the Left, TRS, Congress and other parties and a human chain was formed at ZP centre in Khammam. Municipal […]

Hyderabad: Amid the ongoing tussle between the Centre and the Telangana government over paddy procurement, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday triggered a social media war by accusing both the governments of harassing farmers. Finance Minister T Harish Rao and MLC K Kavitha among others gave a strong counter to Rahul Gandhi, slamming him […]

Hyderabad: The TRS legislators on Sunday slammed the BJP-led union government for being vengeful towards farmers and discriminating the non-BJP-ruled States like Telangana. They said with the fear that Telangana would overtake Gujarat in economic growth, the Centre was rejecting requests from the State for paddy procurement. Speaking to mediapersons at TRS Legislative Party office […]

Hyderabad: Contrary to his belligerent stand towards the State government, BJP MLA T Raja Singh on Saturday appreciated the TRS government for implementing Dalit Bandhu, which he said was a good scheme to uplift Dalits on all fronts. Speaking at an awareness programme with the beneficiaries of Dalit Bandhu scheme, Singh advised the beneficiaries to […]

Warangal: TRS leader and former Mayor Gunda Prakash Rao, former director SAAP, Rajanala Srihari and several others have staged a dharna in front of BJP district office here on Friday demanding that the Centre purchase paddy. They brought several bags of paddy in a bullock cart and dumped them at the office. Speaking on the […]

Hyderabad: Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Friday said the onus of making the Centre purchase the entire paddy crop from Telangana was on the BJP State leadership considering the assurances given by the party’s State president Bandi Sanjay as well as union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy. He reminded that the two had, […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal’s attempts at hiding behind a veneer of satire to run down the TRS government on the paddy procurement issue on Thursday is bound to boomerang on the BJP government at the Centre. Describing the Telangana government as anti-farmers was probably the ultimate faux […]

Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy alleged that the union government was showing discrimination against Telangana state when it came to procurement of paddy. He was speaking at a preparatory meeting over protests against the Centre’s stubborn attitude towards the state, here on Thursday. Addressing the TRS workers, Indrakaran advised the rural and urban civic […]

Khammam: Large scale protests against hike in the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG cylinders have taken place across the district on Thursday. TRS leaders and cadres took to the streets with protest rallies and burning effigies of the BJP government at the Centre. In Khammam the TRS ranks have taken out a mock funeral […]

Khammam: Protests have taken place across erstwhile Khammam district on Wednesday against the union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu. The protestors have accused the union minister of misleading the Lok Sabha in a reply to a question on March 21 pertaining to Telangana’s proposal for increasing the quantum of the reservation to […]

Suryapet: Tribal associations took out rallies across the district and burnt effigies symbolising the Centre protesting against statement of the union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu in Lok Sabha saying that the Centre did not receive any proposal from Telangana government seeking an increase in reservation for Schedule Tribes to 12 per […]

Suryapet: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Wednesday called upon the TRS members to take up door-to-door campaign to explain the people about the decisions of the Centre impacting the interests of Telangana state particularly denial of procurement of paddy. Speaking at Suryapet assembly constituency level meeting of the party held in Sumangali Function hall […]