The decision by the Union civil aviation ministry for naming the domestic terminal at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad after the late N T Rama Rao has already triggered a fight in the Telangana assembly on Friday which finally passed a resolution that urged the Centre to maintain status quo. 

Some members have reportedly slammed this decision as cultural invasion by the Seemandhra leaders and a resolution was passed since it was done without consulting the Telangana state government. KCR stated Telangana had suffered immensely due to cultural invasion from Seemandhra and added how unfortunately even after the bifurcation, the Centre wants to name the domestic terminal of the airport, ignoring late PM P V Narasimha Rao, Komaram Bheem and others.

However, the TDP’s floor leader E Dayakar Rao said that if NTR is not from Telangana and his name cannot be not given the airport, then the same principle should also apply to Rajiv Gandhi, who is definitely not from Telangana. The leader said that if there should be no name of NTR, then even Rajiv’s name shouldn’t be there!

CBN “Akarsh Mantra” creates political disturbances in both YSRCP and TDP camps in Kurnool district. TDP plans to implement “Akarsh” programme against YSRCP 6 months after the general elections. YSRCP Nandhyala SPY Reddy and Kurnool MP Renuka’s husband Neelakantam have already joined in TDP. It seems that other YSRCP MLAs might follow them within few days. 

Some of the former leaders of TDP who joined in Congress and YSRCP have interested to join in TDP in the district. YSRCP has won 11 Assembly out of 14 in the district. KE Krishna Murthy won Pattikonda Assembly and became Deputy Chief Minister of the state. TDP leader’s domination continued after KE’s victory in the district. CBN ordered the officials for immediate respond to solve the issues raised by TDP in charges than YSRCP MLAs. 

Knowing this inconvenience, YSRCP MLAs thought to join in TDP. Reportedly, Nandikotkur YSRCP MLA is looking towards TDP. 5 YSRCP MLAs from Kurnool and Nandhyala Parliament Segments are in touch with NTR Trust Bhavan. TDP leaders are trying to convince existing TDP in charges before YSRCP MLAs enter into the party.

Well, yes Modi has got a plan for everything he does for the country. The United States of America, President Barak Obama is invited to preside over the Republic Day ceremony for the very first time. It seems he will be the chief guest on the ceremony. This kind of relationship between the USA and India is truly a positive sign of development and safety during any kind of emergency in the country. 

In the past, Modi being Gujarat CM has been rejected with visas but after Modi became the PM, Obama himself invited him to the USA. Well, Modi seems to be believing about the power that USA is got and seems banking on it with good terms. However the news was tweeted by Modi : “This Republic Day, we hope to have a friend over…invited President Obama to be the 1st US President to grace the occasion as Chief Guest.” 

However, Obama’s acceptance of invitation has been confirmed on twitter:”President Obama will meet w/ @narendramodi and Indian officials to strengthen and expand the U.S.-#India strategic partnership”. Surprisingly, Obama is the first president of USA to attend the Republic Day celebrations.

Ahead of GHMC elections, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has shifted his focus on the development of Hyderabad. As part of it, KCR said that the Telangana government is ready to shell out Rs 100 Crore for cleaning Hussai Sagar.

At the same time, he said the government is going to constitute a high-level committee with Chief Secretary as its head to “Clean” Hussain Sagar and “Develop” Hussain Sagar. Within the Rs 100 Crore budget, Rs 40 Crore would be spent only on bulding skyscrapers around Hussain Sagar. KCR said that the works of constructing skyscrapers would be made on war footing basis.

If rumour mill is to be believed, IAS officer Smita Sabharwal will soon take charge as the Nalgonda district collector. Buzz is that KCR is contemplating to depute Smita as Nalgonda Collector considering the requests coming from the district on Industrialization. KCR had earlier asked all the district collectors to send the details over government lands for industrialization. 

Smita, a 2001-batch cadre IAS, is the youngest and the first officer appointed into KCR’s peshi soon after KCR sworn in as the Chief Minister. She is presently working as additional secretary in CM KCR’s peshi and handling Irrigation, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development. She has experience of working as collector for Medak and Karimnagar districts in the past. 

Smita is popular for her sympathy towards Telangana people and Telangana movement. She has hit the headlines during felicitation of parents of martyrs of Telangana movement on the eve of Telangana formation day. This is when she caught everyone’s attention.

Everyone is aware of the rivalry between TDP and YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. However YSRCP today took major decision to give issue based support to ruling NDA govt at the Centre. YSRCP parliamentary committee which met at its president Jagan Mohan Reddy’s residence took the above decision.

Later speaking to media its Parliamentary party leader Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, said the party discussed about the stand to be taken in the coming winter session of the Parliament starting from Monday. He said they have decided to give issue based support to BJP led NDA govt and raise issues of farmers deaths in Telangana, special status to Andhra Pradesh and relief to hudhud cyclone victims.

He said they will once again request speaker to consider disqualification of its MPs SPY.Reddy and Kottapalli Geetha who switched sides. Incidentally its rival TDP is the alliance partner of NDA and is ruling Andhra Pradesh.

Telangana Government is running for money to implement welfare schemes in the state. But it seems government wouldn’t get enough revenue for welfare and development activities. Finance Minister Etela said that Telangana Government set a target of collecting 6500 crores by the end of current Fiscal Year through selling the lands in Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts. It’s not possible for the Government to collect such huge revenue within four months of the Financial Year. 

Telangana Government has identified and collected the details like occupied lands and lands in litigations from the revenue department. 22K acres of the land are illegally occupied in Ranga Reddy district. In Hyderabad district, around 10K acres of Government land was occupied. Now Government wants to receive the money through regularization. 

Telangana Government has proposed to organize committee on fixing the fees for regularization of the Government lands. There are 1421 applications still in pending for regularization of the Government lands. All these applications are below 300 square yards. Revenue officials expect 1000 crores of revenue to the Government by regularize. Government need to take decision of some Society lands including Ayyappa Society.

The stalemate between the government of Telangana and L&T Company, which is constructing the metro rail project, has finally almost ended as the government assured the company that it would bear the additional cost if the company agreed to change the alignments in the pre-declared metro route. 

Metro project’s MD NVS Reddy told media that CM KCR assured to bear the additional charges and they have already started assessing the loss in case the changes are invoked in the route map of metro. “The KCR is keen on building the Hyderabad as universal city. He also mentioned some changes in the pre-designed metro route assuring the additional cost. We’ve started assessing how much it takes and will convey an amount once it is over, and will also go according to that plan” he said.