Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu has assured that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would do justice to Telangana region by allotting suitable berths in the next cabinet expansion.
Talking to media persons after launching `Subhojanam’ programme at Gosha Hospital in the district, Sridhar Babu expressed confidence that Chief Minister would do justice to SC/ST communities by giving them proper representing them in the Cabinet and remove the perception in their minds that his government was adopting anti-Dalit policies.
Responding to the ouster of Dr P Shankar Rao, he said that he was removed from the Cabinet due to some unavoidable circumstances.
Hailing the Subhojanam programme, where meals would be provided at Rs 8 and breakfast at Rs 5 for patients in the hospital, the Minister said that he would make efforts to implement the scheme at all government hospitals in the State.
Condemning the desecration of Dr B R Ambedkar statues in Amalapuram, he said that the government would take severe action against the guilty and directed the administration to reinstall the statues immediately. He appealed to the people in Konaseema region to observe restraint and help the administration and police maintain peace and law and order. (INN)
2011/8/29 3:41:18 Minister for Civil Supplies D Sridhar Babu on Monday called upon the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Chairman Prof M Kodandaram to defer the employees' general strike beginning from September 6.
Talking to media persons, Sridhar Babu said the JAC must consider deferment of employees’ general strike as Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who has to take a crucial decision on Telangana state formation, was yet to recover from the operation that she underwent in the US. Until Sonia Gandhi joins active politics, he asked the Telangana leaders to defer their agitations towards statehood, he stated.
Sridhar Babu said there was no need to suspect the commitment of Telangana Congress leaders on the separate statehood formation. Stating that there was no hidden agenda in Telangana Ministers attending duties and cabinet meetings, he said the Ministers are attending duties to protect the interests of party. Reiterating that Telangana state formation was more important, he said the welfare of Telangana people was also equally important for the ministers.
Stating the welfare of farmers was top priority of government, he said the officials have been directed to take all measures to supply fertilizers to farmers on time. (INN)
2011/10/3 5:29:24 Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Monday appealed to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to release salary and festival advance to employees of Singareni Collieries Company Limited without linking it to general strike.
Talking to media persons at Ministers Quarters,Sridhar Babu said that the Chief Minister responded favorably to his appeal and will take steps in this direction after discussing with concerned officials.
Sridhar Babu said that the Chief Minister gave this assurance when he along with Backward Class Welfare Minister Basavaraj Saraiah and Warangal Congress MLA Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy met him at his camp office on Monday.Sridhar Babu expressed confidence that the Centre would take a favorable decision on creation of Telangana state.
He strongly condemned the rumors that Congress members quitting party over the Telangana issue and described them as baseless and far from truth. He said the Congress leaders are committed to the formation of Telangana state and will never go back to their decision. (INN)
2011/9/22 4:14:41 Telangana agitation on Thursday took an ugly turn when some activists barged into the high-security J-Block of the State Secretariat and disrupted a press conference being addressed by three ministers.
Civil Supplies Minister T Sridhar Babu, Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy and Tourism Minister Vatti Vasanth Kumar were addressing a joint press conference regarding the one rupee kilo rice scheme. However, as soon as the press conference began, employees associated with the Telangana Secretariat JAC barged into the conference hall raising 'Jai Telangana' slogans. They did not allow the ministers to speak on the subject.
Amidst pandemonium, Sridhar Babu tried to pacify the agitating employees. However, the employees argued that when thousands of employees were on the street by abstaining from their duties demanding statehood for Telangana, how he could attend his duties. Demanding his resignation, the T activists raised slogans against the Minister and the State Government.
"I was elected by the people for a period of five years and I'm a minister for the entire state. Therefore, how could I participate in the general strike?" the Minister asked. However, the T activists were not convinced with his reply and did not allow him to speak further. Bowing to their pressure, Sridhar Babu walked out of the press conference claiming that he too was in favour of Telangana State. His announcement was followed by loud applauds from the activists.
Although the altercation between the minister and the Telangana activists went on for over half-an-hour, but the security personnel did not intervene. Further, ministers too did not call the security persons to remove the Telangana activists from conference hall. However, it was only after Sridhar Babu expressed his solidarity with the on-going Sakala Janula Samme or the general strike and walked out of the conference hall, the activists dispersed. Ministers - Raghuveera Reddy and Vasanth Kumar remained silent throughout.
After Sridhar Babu walked out, Raghuveera Reddy and Vasanth Kumar continued with their press conference. (INN)
Pranahita-Chevalla pact not linked to Telangana: Sridhar Babu
2012/5/7 3:59:28 Hyderabad, May 7 (INN): Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Monday dismissed the allegations of opposition parties that the State Government has reached the pact with the Maharashtra Government for the construction of Pranahita-Chevella Project under the special package of backward areas development.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party office, Sridhar Babu said that there was no connection between the special package and Telangana State issue and the project was taken up to provide irrigation facility to seven districts in the region. He advised the opposition not to look the development projects with suspicion and criticise the government.
Sridhar Babu said that the government has taken up the project with an aim to provide irrigation facility to about 16.40 lakh acres in seven districts in the Telangana region.
Hailing Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for the pact with Maharashtra Government, he said that 40 TMC of water under the project would be used to provide drinking water facility and 16 TMC would be provided to industries in the region. He said that the government was holding consultations with Transco officials to lift water from the project.
Stating that about 57 percent of funds have been sanctioned by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, he said that government was making all efforts to get the National Project status to the project soon with the Centre.
Stating the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was against development in the region, he said that TRS wants to improve its numbers in the legislative bodies in the name of agitation. He also dismissed media reports that only MPs from the region were making efforts towards Telangana and Ministers and MLAs were not doing anything for the statehood. He said that all of them were making united efforts in the party towards achieving statehood for the region.
2007/7/11 10:40:34 Veteran yesteryear actor Sridhar died of cardiac arrest this afternoon. He was admitted to Apollo hospital last week following chest pain. He was 68. He is a native of Kommuluru in Krishna district and his last rites would be performed there on Thursday. He is survived by his wife and three children. Sridhar acted in over 150 films during his three decade career. He shot to fame with the film Muthyalamuggu directed by Bapu. He was the hero of Gorantha Deepam which was also a big hit. Sridhar was a regular at one time in all Krihna movies. In Justice Choudhary he played the role of NTR’s son. The talented actor never lobbied for roles and was content with the offers that came his way. Sridhar is reported to have invested in real estate from his film career days in Chennai and was busy with real estate activities for the last 10 years.
Subsidy on domestic gas will continue: Sridhar babu
2012/1/12 12:47:12 Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Thursday stated that there was no proposal to lift Rs 25 subsidy being given on the domestic gas cylinders. He said the State Government would continue to bear the burden.
Talking to media persons after emerging out of Cabinet Sub-committee meeting held to monitor the prices of essential commodities at the Secretariat, Sridhar Babu said that the government would continue the subsidy and condemned the reports that appeared in a section of media that the government might drop the subsidy due to heavy burden on the exchequer. He said the government would continue subsidies on pulses and take firm steps for containing skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.
The minister also took serious note on YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy's allegations that the State Government has totally failed to implement the schemes of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Stating that the government has continued all the schemes effectively, he asked Jagan Mohan Reddy to disclose the details of scheme which has been dropped.
Sridhar Babu also criticized Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for allowing Jagan’s deeksha on farmers issue in Telangana region without making his stand clear on statehood issue. Objecting to Jagan’s deeksha in Armoor, he asked KCR to disclose the `secret pact’ he had with Jagan in this regard.
Expressing confidence that the Congress would sweep the by-elections, he said that the fear of debeat have forced the opposition parties to take up padayatras and deekshas in the region. (INN)
2011/9/13 8:04:08 Tension prevailed at Mahamuttaram in Karimnagar town when the Congress activists tried to burn the effigy of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao in protest against his comments on Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu. While the Congress activists were about to burn KCR’s effigy at Telangana chourasta, TRS mahila wing activists too reached the spot and consequently, both the groups ended up having a heated argument.
The TRS activists warned of serious consequences if the Congress activists burn KCR’s effigy. In the melee, one TRS activist snatched and took away the effigy. However, with the intervention of the police, the groups were pacified and the situation was brought under control.
It may be mentioned that KCR on Monday alleged that district incharge minister Sridhar Babu was not making proper efforts towards achieving Telangana state compared to Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar.
Meanwhile, in Mahbubnagar district the Telangana activists gheraoed MP Manda Jagannatham and former minister Jupalli Krishna Rao. The activists alleged that the MP and Jupally Krishjna Rao were enacting political drama without submitting resignation to their posts. (INN)
2011/9/22 8:34:42 Encouraged by the success of preventing Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu from addressing a press conference on Thursday, the Secretariat Employees JAC announced that henceforth, no Telangana minister will be allowed to function from their official chambers in the State Secretariat.
Talking to media, Secretariat Employees JAC president M Narender Rao and other leaders expressed their resolve to stand between the Ministers and their offices in order to drag them into action for the cause of a separate state. They alleged that the Telangana ministers enacted drama of their resignations as they were operating from their official residences. They blamed the Telangana ministers for not being serious for the cause of statehood as they tried to shift the blame on their High Command whenever the issue was raised in public.
Asked about their continuation as ministers, the JAC leaders clarified that they had no objection if they stuck to their ministerial posts while working for a concrete solution for Telangana issue. (INN)
2008/5/3 4:20:00 The TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu is now on his 150-day yathra 'Mee Kosam'. Babu's ratham entered Telangana in the wee hours of Saturday. Babu was received by enthusiastic party workers when he reached Nagarjun Sagar bordering on Guntur and Nalgonda districts. Babu is now en-route to Mirayalguda.
Babu will have a tough time campaigning in Telangana as the sensitive 'separate Telangana' issue is likely to crop up at every place he goes now. He will have to be careful with his speeches in Telangana. It would be interesting to see how Babu will tackle this sensitive issue, now that he is in the midst of Telangana people.
Elect heads, deputies as per tradition: Sridhar’s plea
2011/6/3 4:08:20 In the wake of the Telugu Desam Party announcing its own candidates for the Speaker and his Deputy’s posts, Legislative Affairs Minister D Sridhar Babu on Friday appealed to all parties to follow the tradition and ensure that the Heads of the two Houses of the state Legislature be elected unanimously.
Talking to media persons at Assembly premises, Mr Sridhar Babu appealed to the Legislators to elect the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Legislative Council Chairman and Deputy Chairman unanimously and thereby respect the tradition of the House.
The Legislative Affairs Minister sought the support and cooperation of all elected representatives in this regard so that the elections to the important posts could be conducted without acrimony.
Responding to the introduction of No Confidence Motion by the Telugu Desam Party against the N Kiran Kumar Reddy government on the farmers’ issues, Mr Sridhar Babu stated that the Opposition has the every right to introduce the Motion.
However, he exuded confidence that the No Trust Motion would be defeated convincingly.
2008/4/17 14:38:53 TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu, for the first time has opened his mouth on the contentious separate Telangana issue. In an interview to a private TV channel, Babu said that neither he nor his party, the TDP, were against the formation of a separate Telangana state.
Babu however said that he would first take the opinion of the people in a big way. Babu will talk about the issue prominently in his 150-day road show 'Mee Kosam'. Babu wants a state wide debate over the Telangana issue. The issue concerns everyone in the state and not just the people of Telangana alone.
2011/10/31 3:56:49 Civil Supplies Minister D Sreedhar Babu on Monday stated that the MLAs from the Congress party are joining the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in order to protect their own selfish interests and to get mileage on the Telangana statehood issue.
Talking to media persons, Sridhar Babu told the MLAs –T Rajaiah, Jupally Krishna Rao and Somarapu Satyanarayana -- that the Telangana State formation would not be possible without the support of the Congress party in the Parliament. Therefore, their decision to quit the party would only harm them in their political careers. He asked the MLAs who quit the Congress party to reconsider their decision again.
Sreedhar Babu slammed the TRS for luring the MLAs in the name of statehood and increasing its strength with conspiracies. He also defended Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and said that he has focused his attention on the development of Telangana. He said the Rs 1 a kg rice scheme introduced by the state government would benefit 2.26 crore people from the below poverty line. (INN)
Telangana is my birth right : Sarvey Satyanarayana
2011/8/5 7:45:03 Telangana is his birth right and he is a pucca Telangana man,’ claimed the Congrress MP Survey Satyanaranain the Lok Sabha on Friday.
participating in the debates on Telangana issue he said that the Telangana region is burning and teh people are agitating on different announcements. The aspirationw of the Telangana people should be understood, he appealed and said that it is the responsiblity of the centre to stop people from committing suicides in the region.
Sarvey Satyanarayana said that now Telangana is burning and creation of a separate state is the
‘If all the members from the region had resigned, then who would have raised the voice for Telangana in the house,’ he said and added that keeping this in mind he did not resign. He strongly opposed setting up of second state reorgansation commission and said that it will not serve any purpose. He also said that formation of any regional board on the lines of Gorkhaland will not do justice with Telangana. Sarvey Satyanarayana demanded Telangana with Hyderabad and said that the Justice Srikrishna committee report is not a Supreme Court verdict. If the NDA had given Telangana in its tenure then the present situation would not have arisen, he commented. (INN)
Mohan Babu has been accused of possessing assigned lands belonging to a Dalit. The youth Govardhan from Chandragiri mandal has accused that Mohan Babu is in possession of assigned land, which is in his name. He said that the land is close to Mohan Babu’s school Sri Vidya Nikethan.
Govardhan says that despite several appeals to the local administration, he has not got justice. He claims that Mohan Babu refuses to part with the land. Wait and see what Mohan Babu’s reaction is to this allegation. Will he rise up to the occasion and deliver justice like in Peddarayudu. Or will he say reel life and real life do not match.
Sridhar Babu likely Dy Speaker, Chakrapani to head Council
2011/6/2 10:07:47
Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas on Thursday directed all the MLAs and Council Members of the Party to attend the two-day Session of the Legislature to be convened on June 4.
According to sources, the PCC chief directed all members to attend the Legislature meeting at 12 to discuss the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker posts.
The meeting will also elect the Legislative Council Chairman in the evening session.
Meanwhile, the state government issued notification for the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
Earlier, since the appointment of Kiran Kumar Reddy as Chief Minister, Deputy Speaker Nadendla Manohar has been discharging responsibilities as Speaker of Assembly.
According to relevant sources, Deputy Speaker Nadendla Manohar will be elected as Speaker and Minister for Legislative Affairs D Sridhar Babu will be elected as Deputy Speaker. Sources say that Deputy Speaker Nadendla Manohar has already submitted his resignation from his post, thus paving the way for elevation to the Speaker’s post.
Mr Sridhar Babu has reportedly called other party leaders seeking support for his candidature for the Deputy Speaker post.
In this regard, Mr Sridhar Babu is likely to meet Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday evening, seeking his support for his candidature.
Meanwhile, Dr A Chakrapani is likely to be re-elected as the Legislative Council Chairman. Sources say that the above names have the Congress High Command’s blessings.
2012/2/3 9:14:08 Telangana Jagruti organization president Kavita has declared that her organization is going to launch a help-desk to help the Telangana people suffering in the gulf countries. Three branches at Kareem Nagar, Nizamabad and Hyderabad will be opened soon for this purpose. She criticized minister Sridhar babu who is looking after NRIs for failing to run his help-desk launched by him some time ago at his own constituency-Kareem Nagar. The help- desk which is intended to help the gulf victims has become helpless, because of the negligence shown by the Minister. So, our help-desks will be an opener for him and the state Government.
Mohan Babu and Vishnuvardhan as main lead, Directed by Ramprasad on the banner of Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures sponsored by Manchu Manoj Kumar is this heavy weight Cinema "GAME " has cleared Censors which is now ready and is releasing on 4 th August. On this occasion Dr Mohan Babu said that the Music by Joshwa Sridhar is melodious and received good response and the film will prove to be a crowd puller.
Other Cast: Shobana, Parvati Melton, Siva Parvati, Giri babu, Tanikella bharani, Bramha nandam, Ali, Sunil, Raghu Babu, Venu Madhav, Jeeva, Subba Raju, Ganesh, Anant, Ravi Prakash, Ram Mohan, Harshavardhan, Master Sree and others are in this film.
Technicians: Story - Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Unit , Dialogue - M Raja, music - Joshwa Sridhar, Editing - Goutam Raju Camera- Bala Murgan,Producer M.Manoj Kumar, Screenplay & Direction - G Ram Prasad.
2011/8/29 9:17:56 It is the season of peaceful agitations and even the Telangana Joint Action Committee is going the Anna Hazare way.
Taking cue from the 87-year-old Gandhian, T-JAC chief Prof M Kodandaram on Monday announced that he will stage a sit-in hunger fast in order to pressurize the Government on a Statehood for Telangana.
Talking to media at the JAC Office here, Prof Kodandaram said that they had waited enough on the issue of bifurcation of the State.
Ridiculing Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu’s call to defer the general strike slated to commence on September 6 because of Sonia Gandhi’s health condition, he said there was no question of postponing the strike.
He said the Centre should create the Telangana state by the end of this year. He cautioned that they were running out of patience and they would intensify their agitation if no concrete action was forthcoming.
He also pointed out that the T-JAC would chalk-out a viable and more vibrant plan of action in due course. (INN)
2011/6/27 9:22:01 The state government has, on all accounts, put off taking a decision on whether to increase bus fares of APSRTC.
A Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting is underway on whether to increase the bus fares, at the time of filing this report.
A decision is expected to be announced shortly as the government is undecided about it.
Before making their way to the Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting, Ministers Bosta Satyanarayana, Duddilla Sridhar Babu and Komatireddy Venkata Reddy met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who assured them to consider the already burdened commoner during the meeting.
The state government is already bearing a subsidy burden of Rs 191 crore, (Rs 25 on an LPG cylinder).
The Chief Minister is said to have told the Ministers that an alternative mechanism would be evolved not to further burden the common man, according to Sridhar Babu who spoke to media persons informally.
In view of rise in petroleum products including diesel oil, the burden of which the RTC has increased. Besides, the RTC is also running in losses and the fare increase is imminent.
In the light of these developments, the RTC fares would also be increased and Mr Sridhar Babu said that all factors would be taken into account before the said hike is affected considering the plight of the commuters as another dose of increase in petroleum products recently had already burdened the commoner.
“Before affecting the increase of cited fares a consensus would be evolved,” maintained the minister.
The Ministers are, at the time of filing this report, engaged in a meeting of the Ministers’ Sub-Committee which would evolve an opinion for an agreeable fare hike.(INN)
2008/4/16 8:24:45 The TDP chief has planned a big 150 day yatra 'Mee Kosam' from Chandragiri from April 21. But he will now have to make some major changes to his route. The EC has announced that the by polls would be held on May 29.
Babu will have to campaign extensively in the Telangana region as many seats have fallen vacant here following the resignation of the TRS MLAs and MPS. Babu will also be forced to make his stand clear on the separate Telangana issue during the course of his campaigning.
Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu has assured that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would do justice to Telangana region by allotting suitable berths in the next cabinet expansion.
Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Monday appealed to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to release salary and festival advance to employees of Singareni Collieries Company Limited without linking it to general strike.
Telangana agitation on Thursday took an ugly turn when some activists barged into the high-security J-Block of the State Secretariat and disrupted a press conference being addressed by three ministers.
Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Thursday stated that there was no proposal to lift Rs 25 subsidy being given on the domestic gas cylinders. He said the State Government would continue to bear the burden.
Tension prevailed at Mahamuttaram in Karimnagar town when the Congress activists tried to burn the effigy of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao in protest against his comments on Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu.
Encouraged by the success of preventing Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu from addressing a press conference on Thursday, the Secretariat Employees JAC announced that henceforth, no Telangana minister will be allowed to function from their official chambers in the State Secretariat.
Civil Supplies Minister D Sreedhar Babu on Monday stated that the MLAs from the Congress party are joining the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in order to protect their own selfish interests and to get mileage on the Telangana statehood issue.
Telangana Jagruti organization president Kavita has declared that her organization is going to launch a help-desk to help the Telangana people suffering in the gulf countries. Three branches at Kareem Nagar, Nizamabad and Hyderabad will be opened soon for this purpose. She criticized minister Sridhar babu who is looking after NRIs for failing to run his help-desk launched by him some time ago at his own constituency-Kareem Nagar. The help- desk which is intended to help the gulf victims has become helpless, because of the negligence shown by the Minister. So, our help-desks will be an opener for him and the state Government.
