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AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi has became the key person making party policy. He played an important role in deciding the Telangana issue, holding several discussions with Seemandhra and Telangana Congress leaders.
For every important issue, Rahul gathers the information and reports it to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, who takes the final call. Just as news channels these days end every news bulletin with the phrase: “We report, you decide”, in Congress circles it is “Rahul reports, Sonia decides”.
Dr Geeta’s prescriptions
All the Telangana ministers set aside their differences and stood by their colleague Dr J. Geeta Reddy in her hour of need. The industries minister was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy illegal investments case. The CBI did not call her to their office for questioning but instead did so in her home.
This gave Dr Reddy’s political managers the idea of inviting all the Telangana ministers to her residence to coincide with her questioning, so that the focus could be shifted. The ministers obliged and came to her residence to discuss the Telangana issue.
It may be to further divert attention that Dr Reddy made the controversial remark that there is nothing wrong if APNGOs hold a public meeting in Hyderabad, and no obstacles will be put in their way.
Separation stir boosts airlines biz in state
The only business that is doing well in the state in the last three years is the airline business. The Telangana agitation affected all businesses with frequent bandhs and other protests. Some days it was the separate Telangana agitation and some days the Samaikyandhra agitation that quite literally made businesses “sick” and investment in the state have dropped.
But airlines have done very well as politicians from all parties shuttle frequently between Hyderabad and Delhi, conferring with party leaders, giving their respective views and opinions on the separate statehood issue and generally trying to convince the government of the justness of their respective causes.
The TRS of Seemandhra
In the Telangana region, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti is the strongest political party, whose aim of achieving a separate Telangana state has been achieved. The Seemandhra region has no party exclusively devoted to the region.
The main political parties, the Congress, Telugu Desam and the YSR Congress, have cadres in both areas and are unable to take a strong decision either for a separate Telangana or Samaikyandhra, because they will suffer in one region or the other if they do so.
The best placed, though, is the YSRC because in the Telangana region almost all the leaders expect a few left the YSRC. The YSRC has lost all hopes in Telangana and has concentrated on Seemandhra. So we can call the YSRC the TRS of Seeemandhra.
Will CM bell the CAT for Dinesh?
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy enjoy a very good working relationship. While the Chief Minister gave the police boss a free hand in several issues, the latter did his bit in restoring law and order in the state in the post December 2009 developments.
Recently, the DGP, who will retires in September, applied to the state government to extend his service so that he completes two years in the post of the DGP. He also approached the Central Administrative Tribunal seeking a direction to the state government to accede to his request. All eyes are now on the Chief Minister who has two weeks time to act on the CAT order.
Lucky postings
Praveen Prakash is a lucky IAS officer. In his eagerness to move away from the state, he chose to work as personal secretary to minister of state K. Kriparani. CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s principal secretary Binoy Kumar tried to persuade him to remain in AP and handle the health portfolio, but Prakash opted for Delhi.
He soon realised that the post did not suit him. Fortunately, he was promoted as joint secretary and made mission director, National Mission on Higher Education under the ministry of human resources development.
States: Andhra Pradesh
AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi has became the key person making party policy. He played an important role in deciding the Telangana issue, holding several discussions with Seemandhra and Telangana Congress leaders.
For every important issue, Rahul gathers the information and reports it to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, who takes the final call. Just as news channels these days end every news bulletin with the phrase: “We report, you decide”, in Congress circles it is “Rahul reports, Sonia decides”.
Dr Geeta’s prescriptions
All the Telangana ministers set aside their differences and stood by their colleague Dr J. Geeta Reddy in her hour of need. The industries minister was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy illegal investments case. The CBI did not call her to their office for questioning but instead did so in her home.
This gave Dr Reddy’s political managers the idea of inviting all the Telangana ministers to her residence to coincide with her questioning, so that the focus could be shifted. The ministers obliged and came to her residence to discuss the Telangana issue.
It may be to further divert attention that Dr Reddy made the controversial remark that there is nothing wrong if APNGOs hold a public meeting in Hyderabad, and no obstacles will be put in their way.
Separation stir boosts airlines biz in state
The only business that is doing well in the state in the last three years is the airline business. The Telangana agitation affected all businesses with frequent bandhs and other protests. Some days it was the separate Telangana agitation and some days the Samaikyandhra agitation that quite literally made businesses “sick” and investment in the state have dropped.
But airlines have done very well as politicians from all parties shuttle frequently between Hyderabad and Delhi, conferring with party leaders, giving their respective views and opinions on the separate statehood issue and generally trying to convince the government of the justness of their respective causes.
The TRS of Seemandhra
In the Telangana region, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti is the strongest political party, whose aim of achieving a separate Telangana state has been achieved. The Seemandhra region has no party exclusively devoted to the region.
The main political parties, the Congress, Telugu Desam and the YSR Congress, have cadres in both areas and are unable to take a strong decision either for a separate Telangana or Samaikyandhra, because they will suffer in one region or the other if they do so.
The best placed, though, is the YSRC because in the Telangana region almost all the leaders expect a few left the YSRC. The YSRC has lost all hopes in Telangana and has concentrated on Seemandhra. So we can call the YSRC the TRS of Seeemandhra.
Will CM bell the CAT for Dinesh?
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy enjoy a very good working relationship. While the Chief Minister gave the police boss a free hand in several issues, the latter did his bit in restoring law and order in the state in the post December 2009 developments.
Recently, the DGP, who will retires in September, applied to the state government to extend his service so that he completes two years in the post of the DGP. He also approached the Central Administrative Tribunal seeking a direction to the state government to accede to his request. All eyes are now on the Chief Minister who has two weeks time to act on the CAT order.
Lucky postings
Praveen Prakash is a lucky IAS officer. In his eagerness to move away from the state, he chose to work as personal secretary to minister of state K. Kriparani. CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s principal secretary Binoy Kumar tried to persuade him to remain in AP and handle the health portfolio, but Prakash opted for Delhi.
He soon realised that the post did not suit him. Fortunately, he was promoted as joint secretary and made mission director, National Mission on Higher Education under the ministry of human resources development.
States: Andhra Pradesh
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