Former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham, who has been struggling to find an excuse to revive the agitation for Kapu reservations, has found it, when the police arrested five youth, who were accused in the violent incidents that took place during the Kapu garjana meeting held at Tuni in January this year.

Mudragada on Thursday launched indefinite fast, which is his old tactic, at his residence in Kirlampudi, demanding that the arrested youth be released immediately.He wondered why the government had arrested the youth in the name of participating in the violence, when it had gone soft with more violent groups like Naxalites and terrorists.

“Did you not release Naxalites from jail in the past following the kidnap of IAS officers? Did you not release the extremists to rescue an MLA? Did the government not release dreaded terrorists for the sake of the daughter of a Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir? What happened to the rules then? If you talk about rules, our jails would have been clogged with agitators,” he argued.Padmanabham, who is spearheading the stir for reservation in education and jobs in Andhra Pradesh to his community, had earlier accused Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of “ignoring” the assurances given to Kapus.

Here is an embarrassing news for those people who crave for media’s freedom. of expression. The AP financial minister, Yanamala Ramakrishnudu told the media men yesterday that the AP government would acquire Sakshi newspaper and Sakshi news channel within two or three days. He also added the union government gave its nod for acquiring Sakshi media while the President of India had given his approval.

Sakshi is one among the few media in AP which focuses on government’s failures. It is also being said that MSOs of coastal district have already stopped telecasting Sakshi channel’s programs today, in connection with Mudragada’s deeksha. Earlier, sincere journalists like Kommineni had to walk out of a top news channel for raising voice against ruling party’s blunders in administration. People of AP are requesting the government of AP to respect media’s freedom of expression.

Telangana Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to have adopted a new strategy to weaken the main opposition TDP and Congress further by dividing the districts in more numbers. Earlier, KCR proposed to create 13 or 14 new districts in addition to the existing 10 districts. After holding several talks with party leaders, KCR had reportedly come to an understanding that the two opposition parties are maintaining strong hold in some districts even after many senior leaders and MLAs from TDP and Congress joined TRS in the last two years.

KCR is of the view that the only weapon to root out the opposition parties permanently is to change the geography of every district. He was informed that Congress is still maintaining a strong hold in Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy, Mahabubnagar and Khammam. While TDP is strong in Karimnagar, Warangal and Medak districts.

Sources said KCR reportedly asked his party leaders and officials to divide the districts based on the strength of the party. Now, the Telangana CM wants to create 20 more new districts as against his earlier decision of 13 or 14. clear picture on creation of new districts would come out in a month time. KCR wanted the function of new districts from Dasara in October this year only.