Top storyMohammad Parvez has been appointed general secretary of the Congress party in Rajanna Sircilla district. District Congress president Sheikh Riaz handed him the appointment letter. Parvez thanked the party leadership for assigning him the post in recognition of his work as a party worker in strengthening the organisation. He said he would work in coordination with leaders and workers, explain the party's ideology and government welfare schemes to people, and strengthen the party at the grassroots. Leaders and workers congratulated him.
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Thursday inspected irrigation project works in the combined Mahabubnagar district. Arriving at Maktal in Narayanpet district directly from Bengaluru, he first viewed a photo exhibition on works under the Maktal-Narayanpet-Kodangal lift irrigation scheme. At the Package-1 site near Katrevupalli village in Maktal mandal, he asked officials about progress on pump house works and directed them to begin concrete works and complete them quickly. Ministers N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Damodar Rajanarsimha, Jupally Krishna Rao, Vakiti Srihari and former Karnataka minister NS Boseraju accompanied him.
Ahead of the coming municipal elections, joint Visakha district coalition leaders held a coordination meeting at the Anakapalli district TDP office, convened by district in-charge Minister Kollu Ravindra. Participants discussed selection of coalition candidates, strategy suited to local conditions and coordinated work between TDP and Jana Sena leaders. They also discussed taking the development and welfare programmes of the coalition government's two and a half years to the people. Panchakarla Ramesh, Vamsi Krishna Yadav, Konathala Ramakrishna, Sundarapu Vijay Kumar, Bandaru Satyanarayana and Chintakayala Rajesh attended.
YSRCP chief and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will tour the Pulivendula constituency on Tuesday and Wednesday. He will reach Pulivendula at 11.30 am on Tuesday and hold a Praja Darbar at the Bhakarapuram camp office to receive petitions from people, staying there overnight. On Wednesday he will reach Idupulapaya at 7.30 am and take part in special prayers at YSR Ghat, paying tributes on the birth anniversary of late Chief Minister Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy, before returning.
TDP senior leader Kommareddy Chalama Reddy, from Palnadu district and former in-charge of the Macherla constituency, joined the YSRCP on Monday. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy welcomed him at the CM's camp office in Tadepalli by draping a party scarf on him. TDP leaders K. Srinivasa Reddy, K. Ramachandra Reddy, K. Venkateswara Reddy, K. Shanmukh Reddy and V. Shankar also joined. Government Whip and Macherla MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy and his brother Pinnelli Venkatrami Reddy attended.
A protest against the "daga DSC" announced by the coalition government will be held in Madanapalle on the 29th (Friday) at 9:30 am near the Dr B.R. Ambedkar statue close to the RTC bus stand, said Annamayya district YSRCP student wing general secretary Abhi Varshit Reddy. He said the programme follows a call by former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, alleged the government was playing with the future of the unemployed, and urged state, district, constituency and mandal committee leaders, students, youth and unemployed to take part in large numbers.
Rajendranagar MLA T Prakash Goud said he would do his part for the development of the constituency. Mudiraj leaders of Shamshabad town felicitated him at his residence on Sunday after his fourth win as MLA. He said he had developed the Rajendranagar constituency over 15 years and that necessary steps would be taken for further development. Even without being in government, he said, he would bring funds and remain accessible to people. Leaders of the Shamshabad Mudiraj association attended.
Srikala Reddy, from Ratnavaram in Nadigudem mandal of Kodad constituency in Suryapet district, has been elected Zilla Parishad chairperson of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. She is the daughter of former MLA Keesara Jitender Reddy and former sarpanch Lalita Reddy. Contesting on a BJP ticket from Tikrara mandal in the Malhani segment, she won the ZPTC seat by 12,900 votes, and 43 of 83 ZPTC members backed her. She said she sought a Kodad MLA ticket from 2004 without success, and married former MP Dhananjay Singh eight years ago.
Andhra Pradesh Education and IT Minister Nara Lokesh will undertake an extensive tour of Prakasam district on Friday. He will lay the foundation stone for a five-star Radisson Hotel at Chadalavada in Nagulappalapadu mandal, and unveil statues of 20 eminent persons from various fields. A drinking water project built under the centre-state AMRUT 2.0 scheme will be dedicated to the public. He will later meet TDP leaders and workers in Ongole. The hotel is expected to create jobs for local youth.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy addressed a public meeting at Chelpur in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district under the “Praja Palana – Pragathi Bata” programme. He said the government is not considering abolishing any district or creating a new one, and that any reorganisation would first be placed before the public and discussed in the Legislative Assembly. He termed claims about scrapping the Singareni Medical Board false, announced Rs 6,116 crore for erstwhile Warangal municipalities, and handed a Rs 205 crore bank linkage cheque to the Mahila Samakhya.
Former sarpanch Kanakamamidi Srinivas Mudiraj of the Congress and Boligidda Jagadish, brother of Congress mandal president Boligidda Satyanarayana, joined the BRS in Tholkatta village of Moinabad mandal. Three ward members and some Congress workers also joined. The switch took place under BRS mandal president Daareddy Venkat Reddy and in the presence of former minister and Maheshwaram MLA Sabitha Indrareddy. She said workers were turning to BRS as the government had not implemented its election promises.
National Integration Day will be observed at Telangana Bhavan, the BRS central office, on Thursday. BRS working president KTR is scheduled to unfurl the national flag at 9:30 am, the party said. The programme was announced in information received from Hyderabad dated September 16. No other details or a list of leaders expected to attend were announced.
Poet and former Telangana Sahitya Akademi chairman Juluri Gouri Shankar said the time has come for the struggle for BC rights to take shape as a movement. He said a silver jubilee meeting marking 25 years since the publication of 'Ventade Kalalu - Venukabadina Kulalu' will be held on the 20th of this month at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad. The poster was unveiled at Khammam on Wednesday. Poets, writers, artists, intellectuals and social activists from 33 districts will attend, he said.
The Telangana High Court expressed displeasure over masked persons acting aggressively towards BRS working president KTR's PRO and media coordinator Mahesh alias Manikya Mahesh and personal assistant Mahender Reddy, who had attended questioning at Saifabad police station in a case over allegedly instigating workers during the Assembly session. Justice T Madhavi Devi on Wednesday directed police to preserve CCTV footage of the incident and provide protection to both. Notices were issued to respondents and the hearing adjourned by two weeks.
AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Goa on Saturday. Speaking to reporters at Dabolim Airport, he said people in the state are fed up with the existing parties and want change, adding that details would be shared at a press conference at 3:00 PM on Sunday. AAP won two seats, Benaulim and Velim, in 2022. Separately, the Goa Forward Party resolved to ally with secular forces against the BJP in the February 2027 assembly elections.
