Top storyKodad MLA Padmavathi Reddy on Tuesday inspected arrangements for the foundation stone laying programme of a modern centralised kitchen to be built at Rs 9.60 crore at SM Peta in Munagala mandal of Kodad constituency, Suryapet district. She discussed with local leaders the steps needed to conduct the programme successfully. The MLA also reviewed the progress of the kitchen construction works. Local leaders and senior Congress party leaders participated in the programme.
The Telangana State Board of Technical Education released the TG POLYCET-2025 results on Saturday for admission to polytechnic diploma courses. Gouruganti Sreeja of Miryala village in Suryapet district secured the first rank in the state. Students from the combined Nalgonda district won seven ranks within the top 100. In Nalgonda district 3,935 of 4,766 candidates passed, in Suryapet 2,432 of 2,911, and in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri 1,347 of 1,664.
CPM district secretariat member Kota Gopi demanded the immediate removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gnanesh Kumar and a halt to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Speaking at a press conference at Maddirala mandal centre in Suryapet district on Friday, he alleged unilateral decisions were being taken in the Commission and that SIR would affect the voting rights of crores of citizens. He said eligible voters' names were deleted in Bihar and West Bengal.
A dharna will be held in Suryapet on Friday on the call of the TUWJ-IJU state committee, seeking solutions to problems faced by journalists. State executive member Chalasani Srinivas Rao told a meeting on Thursday that a representation would be submitted at the Mahatma Gandhi statue on MG Road on Gandhi Jayanti, followed by a dharna at the new bus stand and a memorandum to the district collector. He alleged house sites, health cards and bus pass concessions were denied, with 50% charges now collected instead of one-third, and demanded a special law against attacks.
All-party leaders urged the Union government to retain the originally proposed alignment of the Hyderabad-Amaravati-Chennai high-speed bullet train via Choutuppal, Suryapet and Kodad. The decision was announced at a preparatory meeting held on Monday at Kodad Public Club function hall, organised by former MLA Bollam Mallaiah Yadav. He said hundreds had died in accidents caused by traffic congestion on National Highway 65, and rail access would aid business, medical and industrial growth. CPM, CPI, Congress, BJP and MRPS leaders said they were ready for phased agitations.
Farmers staged a dharna on the Khammam-Kodad national highway near Shantinagar in Ananthagiri mandal, demanding the immediate release of water to the Kothagudem major canal. They said crops were drying up because canal water had not reached their fields and because of power cuts, and that they were facing severe difficulties. Police reached the spot and persuaded the farmers, who then called off the protest.
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.
