Chennai: Chennai city is witnessing hungama with sweets distribution and posters displaying all over with “Rajinikanth’s face. Thalaivar turns 70 today and it is his first birthday after he officially announced the decision to contest in upcoming assembly elections in 2021. Added to this, speculations make arounds about party’s symbol, which will be ‘Cycle with milk van’ as per his fans and RMM cadre. RMM leaders reached Delhi to register the symbol, as they felt this is the most auspicious day to do it. Clarity will be given in a few hours from now on the symbol by office bearers. Meanwhile birthday wishes started pouring him on Twitter with ”Thalaivar Birthday and Thalaivar B’day celebration” which is trending now from early hours of Saturday.

New Delhi : Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) had a 50-minute meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. During the meeting KCR handed over 22 representations to the prime minister. He is understood to have offered a hand of friendship saying that as far as development was concerned the TRS government would cooperate with the Centre. KCR has asked the PM to provide Covid vaccine free of cost. Otherwise, the cost of the vaccine should be affordable for the common people, he told Modi. KCR could meet all the important functionaries in the Central government in this three-day visit. He met Amit Shah and Gajendra Shekhawat on Friday.

Will Telangana Rastra Samithi suffer in future due to missing emotional bond between the cadre and second rung leaders on one hand and the party and leadership on the other? Unlike the other regional parties such as Telugu Desam, DMK and AIDMK, the cadre line is a little bit different in KCR’s party. The TRS chief benefitted a lot in 2014 assembly elections with the T-sentiment than the cadre strength.

Tirupati: On Saturday, APBJP president Somu Veerraju gave clarity on Tirupati bypoll and his party’s stand. As per him, BJP will finalise candidate and its ally Jana Sena will support their candidate in upcoming by poll. What is surprising is the fact that so far there is no statement from Jana Sena chief on the BJP stand. Jana Sena chief Pawan met BJP top heads in New Delhi a few days ago and expressed his view that his party will contest in Tirupati. Later official statement was released that a committee will be formed by BJP and Jana Sena for future course of action for Tirupathi bypoll.

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New Delhi: In the presence of various political leaders, cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors of different countries, PM Modi laid the foundation for the new Parliament building on Thursday at 12.55 pm. This was followed by ground breaking ceremony and building is expected to be completed by 2022.

Amravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. s. Jagan Mohan Reddy is one who is fulfilling his promises made during his paadayatra before 2019 elections and implementing schemes which are promised in the manifesto after coming to power. Now he has come up with another scheme in the name of “Jagananna Jeeva kranti” aiming at BC communities which are below poverty line. The scheme was launched on Thursday virtually from Tadepalli CM’s office.

AICC in-charge for Telangana State Manickam Tagore has been consulting  the Congress leaders to know their opinion on the question of TPCC leadership in the wake of Uttam Kumar Reddy relinquishing the office taking moral responsibility for the debacle the party suffered in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections recently.

Farmers’ agitations are not new for India. What is different over the years in these agitations is the way the governments of the time have been responding and the way the political parties and leaders react. Earlier, farmers were concerned about lack of credit, prices, inputs and market. Then, they were angry for false promises.  In more recent years, they have been agitating for humiliating treatment of successive governments. Now farmers are all out agitating as government’s actions are viewed as threatening their survival and livelihood. The story of credit, crop insurance and price support promises given and met over the decades is good enough to realise the extent of distress farming has been pushed into. With increase in the frequency of natural calamities and change in governments have added to the agony of farmers. Culmination of these is result of the crises before the country today.