PM need not take permission to visit Telangana: Ponguleti
All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Friday said that there was no need for Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to take anybody’s permission to visit Telangana region.
Talking to media persons here, Sudhakar condemned the statements of Bharatiya Janata Party state president G Kishen Reddy and Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Kodandaram that Prime Minister should not visit Telangana without making his stand clear on the statehood issue.
Describing their statements as ‘unwarranted and unfortunate’, he said that anybody could visit any place in the country and there was no need for taking permission from anybody in this regard.
“The Constitution of India has provided freedom to all citizens to visit any place in the country and no one can raise objection,” he pointed out.
Stressing that the Centre would take a ‘favourable decision’ on Telangana issue, he said that leaders of the region should observe restraint till the emergence of clear decision.
He demanded that the government should order probe against Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu for his involvement in Emaar scam.
He took a serious note of Y S R Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy seeking narco test on CBI Joint Director Lakshminarayana instead of Jagathi Publications vice-chairman Vijay Sai Reddy. He asked as to why Jagan Mohan Reddy, who claimed he was ready for any kind of probe, was afraid of a CBI inquiry. Instead of facing the probe boldly, he said Jagan was trying to damage the image of the prime probing agency by issuing baseless statements against it. (INN)
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Ponguleti asks KCR to apologise for calling Sonia a 'devil'
2012/5/3 6:39:12 Hyderabad, May 3 (INN): AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy on Thursday came down heavily on Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao for criticizing Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Telangana issue.
Talking to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party office, Ponguleti raised serious objection over KCR describing Sonia Gandhi as 'devil' and sought his unconditional apology from him. Demanding KCR to withdraw his remarks against Sonia Gandhi, he took serious note on KCR for using foul language against the national leaders.
Advising KCR to have control on his words, he warned him of serious consequences if he did not stop using 'vulgar' language. Stating that the formation of separate State was delayed mainly due to the attitude of KCR, he accused him of misusing the agitation for his selfish gains and to strengthen his family.
Ponguleti also condemned KCR for calling people of the region to grill elected representatives on the Telangana statehood issue. Stating that Congress party was committed for the formation of Telangana State, he said that the government would resolve the issue soon.
Ponguleti slams KCR for delay in Telangana formation
2012/4/28 7:01:57 Hyderabad, April 28 (INN): AICC General Secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Saturday condemned Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement that he would continue the statehood agitation for another 11 years.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party office, he attributed the delay in formation of Telangana State to KCR's style of functioning. He alleged that KCR has misused the statehood agitation for his personal gains and to get political posts for his family members. If he has any commitment towards Telangana State and wants to prevent suicides in the region, he said that KCR should support the agitation of Telangana Congress MPs in New Delhi.
Asking KCR to stop the blame game and targeting of leaders, he appealed to KCR to take forward the agitation by sinking all differences by collectively under one common platform.
Ponguleti slammed the BJP for targeting Gandhi family despite the court giving clean chit in the Bofors scandal. He asked the BJP, which always targets Congress party on corruption issue, to explain to the people about conviction of BJP senior leader Bangaru Laxman in fake arms deal case by a Delhi court.
Errabelli has no moral right to target Sonia: Ponguleti
2011/8/12 9:00:18 All India Congress Committee secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar has condemned the allegation of Telugu Desam Telangana Forum convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao as baseless and misleading and said that the Telugu Desam has no moral right to target the Congress party.
Speaking to media persons on Friday at Assembly premises Ponguleti Sudhakar termed the remarks as baseless and far from truth.
It may be recalled that Errabelly had said that the Congress and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti hatched a conspiracy to delay the formation of Telangana state.
Ponguleti Sudhakar blamed that the Telugu Desam for the present political uncertainty in the state.
Stating that Telugu Desam has no moral right to target the Congress party, he advised Errabelli Dayakar to make its party stand clear on the Telangana.
He also took serious exception over the comments made by Y S Vivekananda Reddy that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and state government conspired to foist false cases against Jagan.
I dont understand why Vivekananda Reddy making such serious remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he stated.
He thanked the state government and the Centre for repealing clause 14F of the Presidential Orders of 1975.
He also appealed to Samaikyaandhra leaders not to file any petition in the courts objecting the Presidential assent.
He urged the government to begin recruitment process for other posts in the region with the amended clause.(INN)
2011/10/8 5:30:25 All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Saturday demanded that the state government immediately release salaries for all employees, who participated in the general strike of employees supporting the Telangana statehood agitation.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party office, Ponguleti said that the government employees have been participating in the statehood agitation due to certain conditions prevailing in the region. He appealed to government to release salaries for employees considering their pathetic condition and festival season.
The AICC secretary also appealed to the employees to withdraw their agitation in view of the Deepawali festival as it may cause lot of inconvenience to the general public. He urged government to lift all the police cases foisted against the employees, who participated in the statehood agitation.
Ponguleti said that the Centre was making all efforts towards resolving the Telangana issue. He appealed to all parties to announce their clear stand before the Centre over the Telangana issue. He also appealed to all parties to observe restraint and avoid giving provocative statements until the Centre announces a decision on creation of Telangana state. (INN)
2011/8/23 3:41:33 AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy on Tuesday took serious note on YSR Congress party official spokesperson Ambati Rambabu's remark that Praja Rajyam president K Chiranjeevi allegedly took Rs 300 crore to merger his party into the Congress.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Ponguleti Sudhakar said there was no truth in the allegation and Chiranjeevi merged his party after looking at the Congress government's policies and Sonia Gandhi's leadership skills. He said Ambati Rambabu was issuing such baseless statements in order to get cheat publicity. He said Ambati Rambabu, who is supporting corrupt Jagan Mohan Reddy has no moral right to talk on Chiranjeevi, a non-controversial person.
There is no need for Chiranjeevi to sell his MLAs and the Congress party would never resort to such tactics, he said. He asked Ambati Rambabu as to how many crores he earned illegally as the chairman of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation. He said the MLAs Jayasudha, K Satyavathi and Konda Surekha have not submitted their resignations in support of Jagan and their resignations were linked with separate Telangana issue.
Ponguleti Sudhakar alleged that Jagan Mohan Reddy was playing politics over his dead father's name and trying to gain public's sympathy by using his mother. (INN)
2011/7/13 8:53:38 Suspended Telugu Desam Party leader from Telangana Nagam Janardhan Reddy on Wednesday alleged that Hyderabad Police Commissioner AK Khan has violated the rights of elected people representatives by not allowing them to visit the venue of hunger fast staged by Osmania University students at Arts College in the campus.
Talking to media persons at Assembly Media Point, Mr Janardhan Reddy condemned the attitude of the city Police Chief in arresting the elected representatives who had tried to visit the students hunger fast camp without permission.
He advised Mr Khan to change his attitude and stop arresting peoples representatives.
The senior politician also questioned why Mr Khan was resorting to forcible arrests when the elected representatives wanted to visit the hunger fast camp of students in Osmania University and why permission was denied to them in the first place.
Mr Janardhan Reddy further described Congress In-Charge of Andhra Pradesh Affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad statement that a unanimous resolution was necessary for the formation of separate Telangana state as `meaningless and `unfortunate.
He wondered what was the need of a unanimous resolution when the people are seeking the division of the state. Why have the leaders have not sought opinion of people during the integration of state? Mr Janardhan Reddy questioned. (INN)
2011/10/11 5:26:10 Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao has cancelled his visit to the national capital which was scheduled to begin from Tuesday.
According to party sources, KCR's visit to New Delhi has been cancelled in view of latest developments in the State capital of Hyderabad. The announcement of withdrawal of strike by one of the RTC Employees' unions and arrests of several Telangana leaders across the region since Monday has reportedly forced KCR to cancel his New Delhi's visit. "He will stay in Hyderabad to monitor and intensify the Telangana agitation," a TRS leader said.
During his last visit to New Delhi early this month, KCR has met several national leaders including Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to press for the demand for formation of Telangana State. However, he could not meet Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who were engaged in consultation process to resolve the Telangana issue.
KCR was planning to meet these leaders during New Delhi's visit this time. However, in view of changed circumstances in Hyderabad, he was forced to cancel the visit. The TRS has not specified when KCR will visit the national capital again. (INN)
TDP only responsible for unrest in the state: P Sudhakar
2011/7/29 4:20:18 Condemning the allegations of TDP Politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu that the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi was responsible for unrest in the state, All India Congress Committee secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar said that the Telugu Desam Partys ambivalent attitude is responsible for it.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office on Friday Ponguleti Sudhakar said that the TDP Telangana Forum members can only respond to such statements. Yanamala also claimed that the party is committed to the resolution on Telangana adopted during Mahanadu- 2011 and not to the letter submitted to Pranab Mukerjee in 2008.
P. Sudhakar further said that when the Congress is making efforts to solve the problem, a section of Girijans (tribals) in the state demanded formation of a tribal state.
However, I will never find a fault in raising tribal state with capital of Bhadrachalam in Khammam district, he stated and asked as to why the tribals have raised this issue when the high command is trying to solve T state imbroglio.
He suspected that a conspiracy is going on to hamper the process of Telangana formation.(INN)
2012/4/13 3:55:26 Former member of Rajya Sabha K Kesava Rao on Friday said that no one could obstruct the Telangana leaders' visit to New Delhi for the Telangana statehood demand.
Talking to media persons at Pachayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy's residence, Kesava Rao said that the Telangana leaders were not so weak that they could be threatened by other leaders over their visit to the national capital. “We are ready to go to New Delhi anytime to discuss with the High Command over the Telangana issue and no one can threaten us over our visit,” he said.
“We have already made it clear to the high command that except for Telangana we won't agree for anything else. The Telangana leaders are neither ready to accept any financial packages nor councils for the development of backward regions. We don’t even want any posts,” he said.
Senior leader and MLC K R Amos said the Telangana Ministers and leaders have decided to go to New Delhi despite Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's appeal to them to participate in the Prajapatham programme in the State. He said that the leaders from Telangana would sit together on April 24 to discuss New Delhi's visit and plan a future strategy to achieve statehood for the Telangana region.
Amos said that Ministers and leaders did not turn up for the meetings at Jana Reddy residence due to their busy occupation with their engagements. (INN)
2011/12/19 17:29:52 All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Monday condemned the Telugu Desam Party for levelling allegations that the ministers have nexus with the liquor syndicate.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Ponguleti said that the TDP has no moral right to criticize the ministers as they have sold arrack sachets directly in the police stations under the name of Varuna Vahini. Alleging that Chandrababu Naidu's regime was notorious for heavy sales of liquor, he challenged the TDP to for a public debate on granting of liquor permits. He said that the Vigilance Commission in its report has exposed several irregularities in liquor permits during the TDP's regime.
Ponguleti said that both Excise and Prohibition Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao and Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana have already declared that those involved in the liquor scam would not be spared. He asked the TDP to stop making baseless allegations against Ministers and the Congress party to get mileage in media. (INN)
No permission for Yadireddys funeral procession, TPJAC calls for bandh on 22Jul
2011/7/21 9:56:19 Telangana Political Joint Action Committee has called for Telangana Bandh on July 22, for violation of Telangana Martyrs rights and for imposing Essential Services Maintenance Act on the Telangana employees, who are going for strike from August 1.
According a statement released to media, the TPJAC called for Telangana Bandh in protest against government fascist attitude and for violating the employees rights.
The TPJACs allegation that the government has violated the rights of Telangana Martyrs came in light of reports that the state government has refused permission to take the body of Yadireddy, who committed suicide for the cause of Telangana in New Delhi, in a procession in Hyderabad.
The statement said that Telangana Rashtra Samiti, Telangana Congress, Telugu Desam Telangana Forum, Telangana Peoples Front and breakaway group of Telugu Desam headed by Nagam Janardhan Reddy have extended full support to the Telangana Bandh.
The TPJAC called upon students, employees and Telangana activists to participate actively in the bandh and make it a grand success.(INN)
2012/3/27 4:41:38 AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Tuesday appealed to students to observe calm and restraint until the Centre takes a decision on Telangana State.
Talking to media persons at Assembly Media Point, Ponguleti Sudhakar said that the problem would get complicated if the students resort to extreme steps and the Centre could further delay the decision on the statehood issue. Stating that the Centre delayed the decision on bifurcation of state due to certain conditions prevailing in the State, he expressed confidence the government would take a favourable decision after consulting the Seemandhra leaders.
Stating that the in-charge of State Congress affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad have been holding consultations with Seemandhra leaders, he said that the Telangana issue would be resolved only through dialogue and cooperation among all leaders. The leaders from all three regions should sit together to find an amicable solution to the controversial statehood issue, he pointed out.
“As the high command has promised to take a decision on Telangana after the elections to five state assemblies, we have to wait for some more time patiently,” he stated. (INN)
2012/2/3 12:01:20 AICC Secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy condemned the left parties for criticising the Congress party during their convention at Khammam.
Talking to reporters at the Congress Legislature Party office here on Friday, Ponguleti said that the left parties leaders including Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat, K Narayana and BV Raghuvulu have made statements targeting the Congress party while linking it with the scams. He said the left parties should check their own credentials before commenting about the Congress.
Accusing the left parties of having double standards, Ponguleti said that they had earlier accused the Telugu Desam Party of being corrupt and were sailing with the same party now. He said the left parties' leaders have been leveling baseless allegations against the ruling party to draw political mileage. He described the left parties as a 'sinking boat' in Andhra Pradesh.
The AICC Secretary also slammed the BJP for holding the Congress party responsible for the 2G scam. He claimed that all the rules and regulations for spectrum allocation were framed by the NDA Government. Therefore, the BJP should apologise for the 2G scam before targeting the Congress government. (INN)
2012/1/16 14:19:21 Former Endowment minister Gade Venkat Reddy on Monday called upon Telangana MPs to visit Seemandhra region without any fears.
Talking to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party Office, he stated that the Seemandhra leaders would never object to the visit of Telangana leaders as they could visit any place freely without any fear and express their views in a fair manner. Unlike Telangana leaders, the Seemandhra leaders would not stage dharnas and rallies opposing their visit. “In a democracy, everyone is free to visit any place and express his views on any issue,” he stated.
Hailing the proposal of few Telangana leaders to visit Seemandhra region, the former minister accused YSR congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy and Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu of launching a 'malicious campaign' by making provoking statements. He said their statements would disturb the law and order situation in the region.
He accused the Telangana leaders of provoking people during padayatra of Naidu and Jagan to get mileage on the farmers’ issue. (INN)
Ponguleti slams opposition for anti-Congress campaign
2012/5/22 4:08:54 Hyderabad, May 22 (INN): AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Tuesday said that some vested elements have launched malicious campaign against the Congress party to defeat it in the ensuing by-elections.
Talking to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party office, Ponguleti Sudhakar called upon party rank and file to teach a fitting lesson to those 'vested elements' by defeating them in the by-elections. Stating that he had visited Tirupati and Nellore constituencies as part of election campaign, he said that there has been an improvement in the morale of party leaders compared to previous elections.
Ponguleti expressed confidence that the Congress candidates would win with a huge majority in the by-elections. He advised the party leaders to popularize the government's welfare schemes and programmes and seek votes on the performance of government. He condemned the TDP, TRS and YSR Congress party leaders for leveling baseless charges against the Congress party to tarnish its image and to get mileage in the by-elections.
The AICC Secretary asked the party cadre to inform the control room at Gandhi Bhavan against those who are trying to do 'match fixing' with other parties while damaging the image of Congress party and the government.
2012/4/30 7:17:48 Hyderabad, April 30 (INN): Backward Classes Welfare Minister Basvaraj Saraiah on Monday announced that all ministers from the Telangana region would soon visit New Delhi to mount pressure on the Congress High Command for an early and favourable decision on Telangana statehood issue.
Talking to reporters at the State Secretariat, Saraiah said that there were no difference among the Congress leaders of Telangana region. He said the MPs, MLAs or ministers were working together to achieve statehood for the region. He also denied reports that appeared in a section of media that ministers from the Telangana region were divided on the issue of statehood issue. He said all the leaders from the region would work unitedly to achieve Telangana State.
Sariah said that all ministers from the Telangana region would visit the national capital to mount pressure on the Centre over Telangana issue. However, he did not give a deadline for the same.
2011/12/6 12:56:50 All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Tuesday stated that the soul of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy would not rest in the peace until YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy changes his attitude and style of functioning.
Talking to media persons, Ponguleti Sudhakar said that the former chief minister, till his last breath, worked to protect the interests of Congress party and strengthened the same at the grass root level. However, Jagan was working against the Congress party and foiling the aspirations of YSR.
Ponguleti also took serious note on those MLAs, who were elected on the `B’ form of Congress party, for voting against party whip during the No Confidence Motion introduced against the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government. He said that the people would teach a fitting lesson to all rebel Congress MLAs.
The AICC Secretary hoped that Kiran Kumar Reddy would continue his remaining stint as the Chief Minister without any problems. He predicted that Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu would sit-in for another term as Opposition Leader in the next assembly elections. (INN)
2011/10/21 7:26:53 The City Police on Friday denied permission to Vishalandhra Mahasabha to organise a workshop-cum-exhibition on the topic of united Andhra Pradesh.
The Vishalandhra Mahasabha has originally planned to conduct two-day worship-cum-exhibition from October 22 at Jubilee Hall, Public Gardens, to highlight the importance of integrated Andhra Pradesh. However, fearing law and order problem, the police has cancelled the permission for the event.
Reacting to denial of police permission, Vishalandhra Mahasabha representative Parakala Prabhakar said that the decision was unfortunate and they were being denied the fundamental right of expression. He said the organisation would approach the Human Rights Commission and will also approach the court against the decision of the City Police.
It may be mentioned that earlier this month the same organisation held a press meet at Somajiguda Press Club asking the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee to exempt educational institutions from the Sakala Janula Samme. However, the press meet was disrupted by some Telangana lawyers. Fearing a similar situation this time, the City Police is learnt to have cancelled the permission. (INN)
2011/7/12 9:03:28 Telangana Peoples Front president and Balladeer Gaddar on Tuesday stated that he would launch a hunger strike along with Telangana workers in the second week of August in New Delhi to press for the introduction of Telangana Bill in Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Talking to media persons at Madina Education Centre, Nampally, Gaddar said that he would sit on a hunger fast along with 100 Telangana activists from various peoples organisations.
He said the fast was aimed to take the Telangana statehood agitation to a National level.
Gaddar added that the leaders from Telangana are not in a position to believe the Centres statements any more as they were becoming more and more contradictory.
The Centre must honour the statement made by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on December 9, 2009, the Balladeer said.
He advised the Telangana political Joint Action Committee chairman M Kodandaram to make concerted efforts for bringing all the disparate groups which have sprung up on one platform to achieve Telangana statehood.
Earlier, the Balladeer filed a petition before the State Human Rights Commission, seeking it to direct the police to give permission to him to visit the students who are on hunger fast at Arts College in Osmania University.(INN)
2011/7/21 6:31:30 The T JAC has given a bandh call for Telangana on Friday in protest against the denial for permission to conduct a procession to pay tributes Telangana martyrs and for the Governments decision not to allow its employees to go on strike for Telangana cause. TRS president K.Chandrashekar Rao has appealed the people to support the bandh tomorrow.
All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Friday said that there was no need for Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to take anybody’s permission to visit Telangana region.
All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Saturday demanded that the state government immediately release salaries for all employees, who participated in the general strike of employees supporting the Telangana statehood agitation.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao has cancelled his visit to the national capital which was scheduled to begin from Tuesday.
Former member of Rajya Sabha K Kesava Rao on Friday said that no one could obstruct the Telangana leaders' visit to New Delhi for the Telangana statehood demand.
All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Monday condemned the Telugu Desam Party for levelling allegations that the ministers have nexus with the liquor syndicate.
AICC Secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy condemned the left parties for criticising the Congress party during their convention at Khammam.
Former Endowment minister Gade Venkat Reddy on Monday called upon Telangana MPs to visit Seemandhra region without any fears.
The T JAC has given a bandh call for Telangana on Friday in protest against the denial for permission to conduct a procession to pay tributes Telangana martyrs and for the Governments decision not to allow its employees to go on strike for Telangana cause. TRS president K.Chandrashekar Rao has appealed the people to support the bandh tomorrow.
