Hyderabad:

Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which took complete control of the Legislative Council and won the Chairman’s post, has made an equally stellar performance in the corporation and municipal elections.

It has bagged the entire three Mayors’ posts of Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Ramagundem municipal corporations. It also won 23 municipalities, followed by the Congress 17, Telugu Desam 4, BJP 3, MIM 2 and Independent 1 in the state.

Elections were held for 50 of the 52 municipalities. Elections to Nalgonda and Suryapet chairpersons’ posts have been postponed.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, closely monitored the elections and put IT minister K.T. Rama Rao, irrigation minister T. Harish Rao and other ministers, MPs and MLAs to oversee the polls across Telangana.

In fact, the Chief Minister asked several ministers, MPs and Legislators who planned to attend the ATA convention in the US, to cancel their visits and focus on the polls. “The TRS is moving forward towards making a Golden Telangana. People have reposed faith in the TRS and the Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, yet again. We will develop all the municipalities, ensure basic and modern amenities un-der the leadership of KCR,” said B. Vinod Kumar, the TRS MP and politburo member.

Mr Vinod Kumar said the state government would strive to ensure some cities in Telangana to be among the 100 major cities planned by the Modi government.

“The Chief Minister would certainly take up the matter with the Modi government to include some cities in Telangana for focussed development and make it like one of the international cities,” he said.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Policits / by DC Correspondent / July 04th, 2014

Hyderabad :

TRS legislator from Bhoopalapalli,S Madhusudanachari, will be named speaker of the Telangana Assembly on Tuesday as all parties, including the Congress, TDP, YSRCP and Left parties unanimously supported his candidature on Monday.

Pro-tem speaker K Jana Reddy will announce Madhusudanachari’s election in the Assembly after two MIM members – Akbaruddin Owaisi (Chandrayanagutta) and Mumtaz Ahmad Khan (Yakutpura), both of whom were not present in the House on Monday – take oath on Tuesday.

Even as the ruling TRS is looking to nominate its Medak legislator Padma Devender Reddy to the deputy speaker’s post, TDP floor leader Erraballi Dayakar Rao told TOI that the opposition parties were demanding the post for one of their members. Sources said the deputy speaker issue will be decided at an all-party meeting convened by chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday.

A student of Kakatiya University, 58-year-old Madhusudanachari is a post-graduate in English literature. He joined active politics in 1982 and was TDP MLA from Bhoopalapalli between 1994 and 1999. He is one of the founder members of the TRS when it was launched in 2001. Contesting on the TRS ticket, he lost to Gandra Venkataramana Reddy of the Congress in 2009. However, he trounced Reddy in the just concluded Assembly polls.

“It is a great honour to be the presiding officer of the first Assembly of Telangana. I will discharge my duties with a sense of balance,” Madhusudanachari told TOI. When he filed his nomination at Assembly secretary Raja Sadaram’s chamber, Madhusudanachari was accompanied by the CM and the leaders of the opposition parties including J Geeta Reddy (Congress), Dayakar Rao (TDP), P Venkateswaraulu (YSRCP), Sunnam Rajaih (CPM), and Devarkonda Ravindra (CPI).

Earlier in the day, governor ESL Narasimhan administered the oath to Jana Reddy as pro-tem speaker at Raj Bhavan at 9.30 am. The first day session of the Assembly was convened at 11 am when 117 of the total 119 members took oath. While most of them took the oath in Telugu in the name of God, some like Geetha Reddy (Congress), Padmvathi Uttam Kumar Reddy (Congress), Rekha Naik (TRS), and Shakeel Ahmed (TRS) preferred to take it in English. All MIM members stuck to Urdu, while Raja Singh (BJP) was the only member to take the oath in Hindi.

The House was adjourned at 1 pm following which the CM convened a meeting with the floor leaders of the opposition parties to arrive at a consensus over Madhusudanachari’s candidature as speaker. Tuesday has been earmarked for the election of the speaker and deputy speaker while the governor is scheduled to address the joint session of the Assembly and Council on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the House will take up the debate on the motion on vote of thanks to the governor when the opposition members are expected to take the government to task over the farm loan waiver scheme.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / June 10th, 2014