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BJP banks on Modi’s visit to Telangana for impetus to state unit

Union tourism minister and state bjp president g kishan reddy told reporters on friday that the prime minister would visit mahabubnagar on october 1 to lay foundation stone for various projects.

Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Telangana to launch various developmental projects in a gap of two days on Sunday and Tuesday, an uneasy calm is prevailing in the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

Union tourism minister and state BJP president G Kishan Reddy told reporters on Friday that the Prime Minister would come to Mahabubnagar on October 1 to lay foundation stone for various projects worth ₹ 13,545 crore, including national highway works worth ₹ 6,404 crore and a multi-product (diesel, petrol, kerosene and jet fuel) pipeline connecting Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad worth ₹ 1,932 crore.

Besides, the prime minister would virtually inaugurate new buildings for school of economics, school of mathematics and statistics, school of management and school of arts and communications at Hyderabad Central University, built at a cost of ₹ 81.27 crore.

Modi would also dedicate to nation a new railway line between Muneerabad and Mahabubnagar constructed at a cost of ₹ 505 crore that would reduce the travelling distance between Hyderabad and Goa by 102 km, besides an LPG gas pipeline between Hasan in Karnataka and Charlapalli in Hyderabad built at a cost of ₹ 2,661 crore.

“He would also lay the foundation stone for 50-bed critical care blocks in 20 district hospitals as part of Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure mission. He would also dedicate to the nation Dharmabad-Manoharabada and Mahabubnagar-Kurnool railway lines, besides a new railway line between Manoharabad and Siddipet,” Reddy said.

On October 3, the Prime Minister would visit Nizamabad district to inaugurate projects worth ₹ 8,021 crore, including a 800 MW power plant built at a cost of ₹ 6,000 crore at National Thermal Power Corporation, Ramagundam.

Reddy said at both Mahabubnagar and Nizamabad, the Prime Minister would address public meetings organised by the state BJP to kickstart the party’s campaign for the upcoming elections. “We shall explain to the people what the Modi government had done to Telangana in the last nine years before seeking their support to the party for the elections,” he said.

Leaders unhappy with BJP’s poll preparedness

While the state BJP leadership is expecting that Modi’s public rallies at Mahabubnagar and Nizamabad, followed by BJP national president J P Nadda’s visit to the state on October 6 would rejuvenate the party cadre, some of the senior leaders are expressing unhappiness over the lack of preparedness of the party for the elections.

In the last one week, senior party leaders like former MLAs Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy, G Vijayarama Rao and Enugu Ravindra Reddy, former MPs G Vivek, Konda Visweshwar Reddy and M Vijayashanti met at least thrice to discuss the goings on in the party and felt that the party was not putting up a serious fight against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government.

Vijayashanti confirmed that some of the BJP leaders, including her, had been meeting for the last few days. “It is a fact that we have all joined the BJP only with an objective of putting an end to the autocratic regime of the BRS. I have been an activist of Telangana movement for decades and I shall do anything for the people of the state,” she said in a post on social media.

She said they were all trying to create an impression before the BJP top leadership that there was a need to pull down the BRS government. “We shall go all out to achieve the goal,” the actress-turned-politician said.

Another senior BJP leader who was part of these meetings, requesting anonymity, said that the state’s BJP unit, under the present circumstances, had not been able to create the confidence among the cadres that the party could come to power. “We do not have enough strength to fight against the BRS. It is a fact,” he said.

He further said the talk that there was some kind of understanding between the BJP and the BRS had somehow gone deep into the people. “There has been no action against KCR’s daughter K Kavitha in the Delhi liquor scam till now. There has been no attempt by the Centre to order a probe into various irregularities of the BRS government like the Kaleshwaram lift scheme or Dharani portal. What message are we giving to the people, if the centre remains silent?” he asked.

The BJP leaders are planning to visit Delhi soon and meet party central leaders and express their views about the current state of affairs in the party’s state unit. “Depending on the response of the central leadership, we shall take a call,” the BJP leader said.

Srinivasa Rao is Senior Assistant Editor based out of Hyderabad covering developments in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana . He has over three decades of reporting experience. ...view detail

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Union Tourism minister G Kishan Reddy stresses need to promote domestic tourism

HYDERABAD: Emphasising the need to take India’s tourism sector forward, Union Tourism minister G Kishan Reddy said that domestic tourism should be promoted. The Government of India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is undertaking many initiatives in this regard, he added. Kishan Reddy was the chief guest at the ‘B2B Meet 2023 - Investment opportunities in the Hospitality and Tourism sector in South India and Northeastern states’ held in Hyderabad on Sunday.

He noted that the inflow of tourists to India from abroad has increased tremendously in the recent years and added that the recent G-20 summits have been very successful in attracting the attention of people from all walks of life. India’s cultural heritage, lifestyle, cuisines and tourist centres are known to all, he added.The minister also highlighted that the government is working towards improving connectivity to all the tourist destinations in the country.

Stating that the Global Tourist Investment Summit will be held in Delhi in the coming days, he said that the government is working hard to develop the villages in the border areas of India as tourist destinations and in order to increase employment opportunities, the government focusing on to increasing the number of homestays in many parts of India.

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Union minister, two MLAs vie for glory in Secunderabad

A triangular contest is on the cards for Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana where Union Minister for tourism, culture and development of the north eastern region, G. Kishan Reddy is seeking re-election.

Hyderabad: A triangular contest is on the cards for Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana where Union Minister for tourism, culture and development of the north eastern region, G. Kishan Reddy is seeking re-election.

Two sitting MLAs representing Assembly segments under the same Lok Sabha constituency are also set to enter the fray.

Interestingly both the MLAs were elected in recent elections on Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) tickets. Danam Nagender, who was re-elected from Khairatabad constituency, joined Congress party a few days ago and the party swiftly named him as the candidate for May 13 election.

BRS, which won six of the seven Assembly segments in the recent polls, is making a determined bid to register its maiden victory in this Lok Sabha constituency, which so far has elected either Congress or BJP.

The BRS has fielded T. Padmarao Goud , who was elected from the Secunderabad Assembly segment recently for a fourth term and considered a strong leader.

Padmarao Goud has been associated with TRS (now BRS) since Telangana movement days. He also served as the Deputy Speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly between 2014 and 2018.

He was first elected to the Assembly of united Andhra Pradesh on TRS ticket from Secunderabad in 2004.

In terms of Assembly segments won and number of votes secured, BRS appears strong on paper but defections of some key leaders to the ruling Congress has apparently hit the party’s morale.

The switching of loyalties by Nagender, a former minister, came as a shot in the arm for the grand old party.

Upbeat after luring several key BRS leaders, including Greater Hyderabad Mayor Vijayalaxmi Gadwal to its camp, Congress will be looking to wrest the seat from BJP after losing two consecutive elections

After drawing a blank in Greater Hyderabad region in November 30, 2023 polls, the Congress was looking for strong candidates to bolster its prospects. Interestingly, in Secunderabad, Chevella and Malkajgiri, which cover Assembly segments in and around Hyderabad, the Congress has fielded all defectors from BRS.

Kishan Reddy, who is also the state president of the BJP, was elected MP from Secunderabad in 2019, a few months after losing the election from Amberpet Assembly segment under the same parliamentary constituency

In 2019, G. Kishan Reddy had defeated his nearest rival T. Sai Kiran Yadav by a majority of 62,114 votes. Kishan Reddy had polled 3,84,780 votes while Sai Kiran Yadav, son of former minister and BRS leader Srinivas Yadav, secured 3,22,666 votes.

Anjan Kumar Yadav, a two-time MP from Secunderabad, finished a distant third with 1,73,229 votes.

In the November 30, 2023 Assembly elections, BRS bagged six out of seven Assembly segments under the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency. The AIMIM retained the Nampally segment.

Like in the 2019 elections, Kishan Reddy, a three-time MLA from Amberpet, will be banking on the Modi factor.

Both BRS and Congress are vying to get support of Muslims and Christians, who are in sizable numbers in this constituency.

Secunderabad was a Congress stronghold till 1991 when BJP’s Bandaru Dattatreya wrested the seat for the first time. He was elected from this constituency again in 1998, 1999 and 2014.

In 2014, when BJP had contested the elections in alliance with the TDP, Dattatreya had defeated his nearest rival Anjan Kumar Yadav of Congress with a massive majority of over 2.54 lakh votes.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate N. Mohan Rao was at third spot polling 1.45 lakh votes. TRS had finished fourth with 1.43 lakh votes.

In 2019, AIMIM had backed TRS in 16 Lok Sabha constituencies while the two parties had a friendly contest in Hyderabad, a stronghold of AIMIM.

It will be interesting to see which party AIMIM will support this time as the party appears to have softened its stand towards Congress after it came to power.

Secunderabad is one of the seats which BRS never won since the party was floated by K. Chandrasekhar Rao in 2001. In 2009, it finished in sixth position.

After forming the first government in Telangana in 2014, BRS improved its position in Secunderabad.

If votes polled by the parties in 2023 Assembly elections are compared with the votes secured by them in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BRS significantly improved its position. It polled 4,63,324 votes in 2023 Assembly elections against 3,22,666 votes in 2019 in all seven Assembly segments.

The Congress also improved its performance to secure 2,80,605 against 1,73,229 votes in 2019. However, the number of votes polled by BJP came down to 2,16,401 from 3,84,780 in 2019.

Poll analysts, however, say this comparison does not reflect the real picture on the ground as the issues for Lok Sabha polls will be different. They point out that TRS had increased its votes to 4.29 lakh in 2018 from just 1.43 lakh in 2014 when simultaneous polls were held for Assembly and Lok Sabha, but in the general elections a few months later the BJP still retained the seat.

Kishan Reddy has already launched the election campaign in the constituency with the focus on achievements of the Modi government during the last 10 years. After the Vijay Sankalp yatra a month ago, the BJP leader has been undertaking padayatra in the constituency to interact with people.

The Union Minister enquired with people about the civic amenities and promised to solve their problems. As someone who represented Amberpet constituency for three terms and known as an active leader since his BJYM days, he is considered accessible to the electorate.

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao, however, said that Kishan Reddy will lose the election as he has done nothing for the constituency in the last five years. Campaigning in the constituency for BRS candidate Padmarao Goud, KTR said that despite being the Central minister, Kishan Reddy hasn't brought a single rupee or initiated any development activity for Hyderabad or Telangana. KTR recalled that Kishan Reddy was rejected by the Amberpet Assembly Constituency and accidentally became an MP from the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency.

The BRS leader reminded the city voters about the 360-degree development of Hyderabad during their 10 year-rule.

KTR also reminded the people of Secunderabad that instead of voting for leaders who make regular visits to high commands in Delhi, they should vote for Padmarao Goud, who is always available in the constituency.

Younger than Hyderabad by 215 years, Secunderabad is known for its distinctive and more modern lifestyle, cosmopolitan culture and architecture. It houses dozens of defence establishments with the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) looking after the vast military interests.

In 1806, Nizam III Mir Sikandar Jah, the ruler of then Hyderabad State had allocated Secunderabad, the area to the north of the Hussain Sagar Lake, for the cantonment of the British Army. The area was named after Sikandar Jah and it remained under the direct rule of the British till 1948.

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Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 23 (ANI): Telangana Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud called on Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and briefed him about initiatives being taken by the Telangana government in promoting temple and medical tourism and discussed the advent of Buddhism and the Buddhist roots found in Telangana.  

“Paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Sri Dinesh Gunawardena & discussed over the advent of Buddhism traced back during the 5th century B.C. and the Buddhism roots found in the Telangana State,” the Telangana Minister for Excise and Prohibition wrote on ‘X’ on Friday.

Briefed the Sri Lankan Prime Minister on the various initiatives of State Government under the able leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao Garu in promoting Temple & Medical Tourism, Industrial Policy and on the revolutionary agricultural reforms” Goud posted on X.

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister was briefed on the various initiatives of the Telangana government under Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s leadership. This includes promoting temple and medical tourism, industrial policy and revolutionary agricultural reforms.

“Sri Lankan MP Yadamini Gunawardena, Sri Lankan Govt Secretary Sugeshwar, Sri Lankan Parliament Secretary Kuruppu, Chairman Light of Asia Foundation and Radiance films International (Pvt) Ltd., Navin Gunaratna, Actor Gagan Malik & other dignitaries were also present,” Goud wrote.  

India and Sri Lanka recently agreed to promote and popularize the Buddhist circuit, Ramayana trail and ancient places of Buddhist, Hindu and other religious worship places in Sri Lanka. 

The bilateral document released by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) read, “To promote awareness and popularize India’s Buddhist circuit, and Ramayana trail as well as ancient places of Buddhist, Hindu and other religious worship in Sri Lanka for enhancing tourism.” The bilateral document was released as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe held bilateral and delegation-level talks in Delhi. 

The two sides agreed to explore cooperation between educational institutions on both sides including through the establishment of new higher education and skilling campuses in Sri Lanka as per the requirements and priorities of Sri Lanka.

India and Sri Lanka agreed to expand cooperation between research and academic institutes in areas of mutual interests such as agriculture, aquaculture, IT, business, finance and management, health and medicine, earth and marine sciences, oceanography, space applications, as well as history, culture, languages, literature, religious studies and other humanities.

The bilateral document released by MEA read, “To establish land connectivity between Sri Lanka and India for developing land access to the ports of Trincomalee and Colombo, propelling economic growth and prosperity in both Sri Lanka and India, and further consolidating the millennia-old relationship between the two countries. A feasibility study for such connectivity will be conducted at an early date.” (ANI)

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