Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is likely to hold mid-term elections to the state assembly next year, if one were to read between the lines of his statements made on Thursday.According to Leader of Opposition in Telangana State Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir, KCR clearly hinted at holding mid-term Assembly elections in 2017. He pointed out that the Chief Minister, while addressing the second anniversary celebrations of Telangana Formation Day on 2nd June at Parade Grounds, promised irrigation of one crore acres of land by 2022. Similarly, he promised a drought-free State by 2022.

“KCR got a mandate only till 2019. Therefore, he should speak about projects or schemes that he intends to complete by 2019. By saying 2022, KCR gave a clear hint that he might go for mid-term elections for State Assembly anytime in 2017. Only by this logic, he would get another term till 2022, if he wins the polls,” he said.Shabbir Ali said that the Telangana was all set to face “mini-elections” soon. KCR has engineered defection of 23 MLAs, two Lok Sabha MPs and over a dozen MLCs belonging to opposition parties to TRS.

Although Speaker S. Madhusudan Chary has delayed the decision on disqualification petitions filed by the respective parties, the High Court and Supreme Court would certainly do justice in this matter. “The legislators and MPs have violated the Anti-Defection Law and they are bound to face disqualification as per Schedule 10. Instead of facing by-elections in 23 Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies, KCR might prefer mid-term polls for the entire Assembly,” he said.

The Congress in both Andhra Pradesh as well as Telangana seems to be completely bereft of ideas to rejuvenate itself. How else would you explain recent decisions by the Party in both the States which are nothing short of ridiculous?In Telangana, the Party has taken a decision that they would protest in front of the houses of all future defectors to the TRS.

They intend to shame the defectors in this manner which brings us to the question: Do politicians have any shame and does the Congress itself have any moral right?For the sake of making a political dumbo, the Prime Minister of the nation, they bifurcated Andhra Pradesh without any regard to the sentiments of 4 crore people.

And in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress has organised a protest against the decisions taken in TDP Mahanadu saying they were not in the best interests of the State.The Mahanadu was a private affair of the TDP! Who is the Congress to tell what should be discussed and what shouldn’t be, at that event? Wouldn’t they be better off in both States by actually working for the welfare of the people for a change?

The Telangana government has brought into force new system to protect temple lands from encroachments. All the lands possessed by the Temple trusts are being transferred in the name of presiding deities in the respective temples in the state. State Endowment department in coordination with Revenue and Registration departments began the exercise recently.

The official records says nearly one lack acres of land has been registered in the name of temple trusts and managements in all 10 districts of the state. About 10,000 acres of land was encroached upon in the last five decades in the state. Nearly 12,500 temples were being maintained by the endowment department.

All the trusts, societies and individuals guarding the temple lands have been asked to surrender the land pattas registered in their names to the Endowments department. The concerned Temple administration officials would sign on the registration documents on behalf of the deities. This would help to stop transferring of lands to others permanently.The government has taken the new initiative not only to protect the lands from encroachments but also proper utilization of the valuable lands for the development of local areas. It also help the officials to fight against encroachments in the courts.

Senior Congress leader, MP and the party’s Telangana in-charge Digvijaya Singh had to face brickbats from Telangana’s dynamic minister KTR. Strangely, Diggy had to face the embarrassment even though he wished the people of Telangana on the state’s formation day yesterday.

Yesterday, Digvijaya Singh extended his wishes via Twitter as he tweeted, “Greetings to all in Telengana and we thank Sonia Gandhi to give Statehood accepting the long standing demand of the People of Telengana.”However, Diggy misspelled Telangana as Telengana, a common error which most of the North Indians do, didn’t go down well with KTR, who decided to troll Digvijaya Singh on Twitter.

KTR tweeted, “Here’s the official INC in-charge of ‘Telangana’ who can’t even get the spelling right! And he criticises CM KCR!!” The reason for KTR’s fury on Diggy is that the AICC’s Telangana in-charge strongly condemned KCR spending crores of rupees to celebrate the state formation day, while hundreds of farmers are dying in the state.

An Indian-American doctoral student named Mainak Sarkar was reportedly the man who gunned down his professor William Klug at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) yesterday. Mainak hailed from West Bengal and he was a student of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.On Wednesday, Mainak reportedly shot dead his professor for stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, before killing himself.

Klug, 39, had been the target of Mainak’s fury on his social networking profile for months as Mainak accused Klug of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else.”William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy”, Mainak wrote on his social networking on March 10th. “He made me really sick. Your enemy is my enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust”, Mainak added.

Incidentally, Mainak, in his doctoral dissertation submitted in 2013, thanked Klug for his help and support and for being his mentor. The murder and the following suicide led to complete lockdown of the campus as hundreds of police officers and federal agents were deployed on the UCLA campus.