Britain witnessed a medical wonder when a pregnant man has delivered a baby. 21-yr-old pregnant man has delivered a baby girl who is healthy and happy. Hayden Cross is the man…err..woman who made this unthinkable happened. Hayden was biologically female (named as Paige) who later opted for sex-transition to become male.

He had been living legally as a man for three years and was already part-way through hormone treatment to transform from a woman to a man. But the full transition was paused after the UK’s state- funded National Health Service (NHS) refused to carry out a 4,000-pounds process to freeze his eggs – which he hoped would enable him to have children in the future.

Hayden Cross, from Gloucester, had said earlier, “I faced the prospect of not becoming the man I’m supposed to be, physically, or a dad. So I didn’t feel like I had any choice but to have a baby now then get back to transitioning.” “In September I got pregnant by a sperm donation. I found the donor on the internet. I looked on Facebook for a group and found one — it’s been shut down now,” Cross had said.

Cross delivered baby girl on June 16 at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The girl is named as Trinity-Leigh. Cross is expected to complete his transition to male soon.

YSR Congress Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced to tour the state on foot (PADAYATRA) from Oct 27th. He would be covering 3000 kilometers over a period of six months. The padayatra will start from from Idupulapaya of YSR Kadapa district where late YSR was laid to rest.

Sounding election bugle at the conclusion of two day party plenary in Guntur, Jagan also announced 9 promises

1. To sanction Rs.12,500 per year to the farmers who own less than 5 acre land for four years. Cumulatively the benefit to each farmer would be Rs.50000 under Rythu Bharosa scheme. This will benefit 86pc of total farmers in AP (66 lakh farmers in number). A fund of Rs.3000 crore would be setup to stabilize the prices of farm produce.

2. For 89 lakh DWACRA women a complete loan waiver scheme would be implemented in four phases under YSR Asara scheme.

3. Old Age Pensions would be increased from Rs.1000 to Rs.2000 per person.

4. Under AMMA ODI scheme students from 1st to 5th class will be given a stiphend of Rs.500 per month to a maximum of two children per family. For 6th to 10th, each student will get Rs.750 and Intermediate (+2) students will get Rs.1000 per month. The money would be straight away paid to the mothers.

5. Under Housing scheme, all the poor people irrespective of caste, creed and religion will get pacca houses in five years. 25 lakh houses will be constructed for the benefit of poor.

6. Arogyasri scheme, which was initiated by late YSR will be implemented with renewed vigour by allocating necessary funds in budget. Special monetary benefit would be extended to family if the patient is the sole bread earner. Special pension to be given to Kidney patients.

7. Fee reimbursement scheme will be implemented without any conditions and each student will be given Rs.20000 per annum for expenses.

8. All the pending irrigation projects including Polavaram will be completed on war-footing.

9. Total prohibition of liquor will be implemented in three phases. Initially the liquor shop number will be reduced drastically while curbing illegal liquor shops. Liquor rates would be increased exorbitant in second phase. In third phase, Liquor will be made available only in five star hotels at higher tariff. Legislation will be made to punish those who manufacture or sell liquor with seven year imprisonment.

Opposition YSR Congress Party has attempted something that it hadn’t done before – party plenary. While this seems to have brought certain seriousness to YSRCP as a political party, what’s clearly lacking is substance. Going by the speeches of its crucial leaders, the sole purpose of plenary is to demean CM Chandrababu Naidu and his government. And YSRCP need not have a reason to take on government. It blindly blamed Naidu for everything – good or bad – in his government. Quite literally. Too much play of words, phrases, trying to please galleries, but little did Jagan or his leaders realise that it would all backfire and comeback to them. Going by its plenary, Power is the sole aim of the party. And the only approach it found is to defame Chandrababu.

Plenary is to discuss the functioning of party, its achievements for public, its movements and issue-based, objective criticism of government. But what YSRCP plenary offered was total opposite. So, what is plenary for? To curse Naidu. Its evident when its party senior leader Ummareddy Venkateswarlu caught red-handed on camera while he was passing Jagan’s orders to Roja to ‘abuse’ Naidu. This was quite open and left Jagan red-faced. Right from Sharmila to Jagan to all its leaders, everyone took a dig at Naidu.

If it’s not enough,Jagan Reddy has released a book on Chandrababu Naidu’s corruption where he alleged that Naidu is involved in a whopping 3.75 Lakh Crore of corruption and Jagan didn’t stop there. He went onto dub Chandrababu as the ‘Emperor of Corruption’. These are evoking laughs as the money that Jagan quoted was far far higher than the total of state’s budget in the three years of TDP rule.

These are just a drop in an ocean. Kodali Nani, Roja, Radha and many leaders of YCP just stuck to personal comments limiting the whole plenary to Jagan’s personal rivalry with Naidu. The whole purpose of plenary seem to be about power, politics, party and Prashant Kishore. It apparently least bothered about people and policies. Looks like, it all helped Jagan to satisfy his ego while his leaders belittling Naidu, TDP. The moot question is whether the plenary has any impact on the image of YSRCP in people or not.

YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy has declared that he has a lot of faith in the abilities of political strategist Prashant Kishor and expressed confidence that the latter would help the party come to power in 2019.

Jagan introduced Prashant at the party plenary meeting being held in Guntur on Sunday.

Speaking in this regard, YS Jagan said that Prashant Kishore would lend his support to YSRCP to sweep away Chandrababu Naidu and TDP’s rule from the state and win the 2019 elections.

Mentioning that Prashant had backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2014 elections, Nitish Kumar’s victory and even in Punjab with Captain Amarender, the YSRCP Chief said that now his party will be garnering the support from the political strategist for the 2019 elections and take directions with his expertise.

While it was Y S Jaganmohan Reddy all the way at the two-day plenary of the YSR Congress party that concluded in Amaravati on Sunday, the highlight of the session was his sister Y S Sharmila, who showed up at the party meeting along with her mother Vijayalakshmi after a long time.

Sharmila, who took the mantle of the party when Jagan was in jail between 2012 and 2013, evoked thunderous applause from the party cadre when she addressed the plenary.

Introducing herself as the daughter of Rajanna and sister of Jaganana, YS Sharmila in her speech said that YS Rajasekhar Reddy proved himself as farmers’ favourite by introducing schemes including waiver of loans, waiver of power dues, free power supply and focusing on Irrigation projects.

She further said that during YSR rule, poor people were given free houses, patients were given life through Arogya Sri and 108 while also introducing fees reimbursement scheme.

Mentioning that Jagan was following the footsteps of YSR theoretically, Sharmila said that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu cheated students, farmers and DWARKA women with his false promises.

Speaking at the YSRCP Plenary meeting being held in Amaravati on Sunday, Sharmila said that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu cheated the people of AP during the elections in 2014 but now the public is aware of his falsehood and he cannot come to power again in the 2019 elections.

Citing a Telugu proverb, Sharmila said Chandrababu can’t cook the dal except the one and only dal – Pappu in Telugu while calling Nara Lokesh as ‘Pappu’.

She concluded her speech by saying that the strength of YSRCP is the faith people have on Jagan and that the future of Andhra Pradesh is YSRCP.