The veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao is being actively considered for a seat in the Legislative council under the Governor’s quota. This has been doing the rounds for quite some time. It was even rumoured that Akkineni was lobbying for the nomination through his friends in the Congress.
However, ANR has denied that he was lobbying for a seat. The government wants to nominate one person from the film industry and ANR’s name is high on the list. However there are many lobbies working hard to push their candidate. Even caste equations have come to the fore. The final call however rests with the CM.
Council adjourned due to non-presence of ministers
2012/2/24 7:28:48 Hyderabad, Feb 24 (INN): The State Legislative Council was adjourned on Friday in protest against the absence of ministers from the House.
Congress MLC P Venkat Rao raised the issue of non-presence of ministers in the council. He said as per norms, 16 ministers should attend the Council proceedings, but only three ministers were present. He complained that no officials were attending the council during debates which was an insult to the House of Elders. He requested the Chair to adjourn the House and lodge strong protest against the government.
All the members of the House irrespective of party affiliation support the move and panel Chairman N Vidyasagar adjourned the House for 10 minutes. However, when the House re-assembled after 10 minutes, only six ministers turned up.
Chakrapani accepts Mohan Reddy's resignation as MLC
2012/5/18 7:25:30 Hyderabad, May 18 (INN): State Legislative Council chairman Dr A Chakrapani on Friday accepted the resignation of SV Mohan Reddy as the member of the council.
Mohan Reddy was elected to the council from the local bodies of Kurnool district in March 2011. On May 9, he resigned as MLC as well as from the primary membership of the Congress party. Since he was moving very close to YSR Congress party, the ruling party lodged a complaint with the Council chairman Dr Chakrapani seeking his disqualification.
He was also served a notice and a day after appearing before the Council Chairman, he submitted his resignation as the MLC.
Mohan Reddy welcomed the chairman's decision and said now he could work independently for the YSR Congress party.
Famous sexologist G Samaram is in the race for the council polls. He is fighting the election from Guntur and Krishna district constituencies. He filed his nomination papers for the graduates’ constituency on Monday.
Samaram claimed that he has the blessings of Megastar Chiranjeevi. The Indian Medical Association is also backing him. If he makes it to the council, then one can expect to hear more about sex and sex education in the council too.
Another filmstar is now in the race for the council seat. It is none other than yesteryear Tollywood star Nagma. Nagma has acted in many hit telugu films. The actor of lately has not found any wok in Tollyood
However, the actor is reportedly lobbying for a seat in the legislative council thru the reserved quota for artists. When some of the bigwigs have expressed their interest in being nominated for the council, Nagma has a feeble chance of being nominated. Anyway, best of luck to Nagma!.
Producers' Council happy over revival of NTR award
2007/9/4 22:13:48
The producers' council expressed its happiness over the revival of NTR memorial national award by the State government and its announcement for all the three years of 2003, 04 and 05 years.
The general secretary of the Producers' Council TVD Prasad conveyed the thanks to Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, cinematography minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy in this regard.
The council also congratulated artiste, director and producer G Krishna for his selection to the award for the year 2003.
2011/7/28 9:07:37 The Central Wakf Council, functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, has constituted 4 Sub-Committees to transact business regarding the monitoring of the programmes of the Council, administrative and financial matters, implementation of the Scheme for the Development of Urban Wakf Properties and Educational schemes of the Council.
These four Sub-Committees are Planning and Advisory, Education and Women Welfare, Wakf Development and Monitoring Committees.
These Committees have been constituted in accordance with the decision taken in the 57th meeting of the Central Wakf Council held earlier this month under the Chairmanship of Union Minister of Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid. That meeting had authorized the Chairman of the Council to constitute the four Committees.
Each Committee has a Chairperson and four Members.
Retired Justice S Haider Abbas Raza has been nominated as the Chairperson of the Planning and Advisory Committee; former IAS officer Yasmin Ahmed will head the Education and Women Welfare Committee; Prof Saifuddin Soz, has been designated as the Chairperson of the Wakf Development Committee; and MP Syed Shahnawaz Hussainhas been assigned the Chairmanship of the Monitoring Committee.
Chairperson of the Education and Women Welfare Committee is also an ex-officio Member of Maulana Azad Education Foundation.
The Central Wakf Council normally meets twice in a year. However, the Committees of the Council meet as often as possible to transact business.(INN)
2007/11/2 5:36:15 The fate of several MLCs was revealed this afternoon at the Jubilee hall in Hyderabad. The officials conducted a draw of lots with the help of the election commission officials.
The draw has been held to decide who among the legislative council members will serve for a two year, four year and six year term in the council.
Senior congress leaders Kanumuri Bapiraju and Palvai Govardhan Reddy are among those who will get just two years in the legislative council.
2011/4/8 23:37:58 Near about 40 films which were in different stages of film production have come to a grinding halt with the strike started by employees of film federation from Friday onwards. They are demanding a 100% wage revision for which the producer’s council is not agreeing. The representatives of the employees unions has told the media that, while the producers have find no difficulty in paying crores of rupees as remuneration to the actors, then why are they hesitating to take a load of few extra lacks for paying the employees who labors round the clock. He said they will continue the strike till the producer’s council agrees to their demands.
Producer and joint secretary of the producer’s council Natti Kumar and another member of the council T. Rama Satyanarayana have resigned to their posts for keeping them in dark about the strike notice submitted to council on 1st of April.
Therefore, the strike may affect the releases of all upcoming movies like Teen Maar, Mr.Perfect, Badrinath, Nenu Naa Rakshasi, 100% Love and many small films, unless the problems are solved at the earliest.
2011/8/28 8:42:02 Boorugupalli Siva Rama Krishna has been elected as the president of the Telugu Film Producers’ Council.
In the elections held for the council’s office-bearers here on Sunday, Sravanthi Ravi Kishore and C V Reddy were elected as vice-presidents. While Prasanna Kumar and KV Rao were elected as Secretaries, Shekhar babu was elected as the council’s Treasurer.
P Kesava rao and Mohan Vadlapatta were elected as Joint Secretaries.These office-bearers would continue in their posts till 2013. (INN)
2011/6/4 9:48:55 A Chakrapani and Nethi Vidyasagar Rao on Saturday were elected as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Legislative Council unanimously.
Council Pro-tem Chairman Basava Punnaiah conducted the election.
Their election was a foregone conclusion as no other candidates had filed nominations for the posts. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other party leaders congratulated both Dr Chakrapani and Mr Vidyasagar Rao.
Dr Chakrapani had stepped down from the Council Chairman’s post following his term as MLC coming to a close. He was renominated from the Governor’s quota, clearing the decks for his re-election.
2012/2/23 5:34:15 State Legislative Council chairman Dr A Chakrapani on Thursday rejected the adjournment motions moved by different members.
TRS MLC N Laxman Rao demanded that the State Government honour the promises that it made with the employees to make them withdraw the 42-day long general strike. Moving an adjournment motion in the Council, he said that in the agreement it was promised that the 42 days strike period would be counted as leave, half salary for the strike days would be given and cases against the employees would be withdrawn. However, nothing concrete has been done yet.
Teachers' member of the council, MVS Shastry, in an adjournment motion raised the issue of contract employees in the State and demanded that their services be regularised. Another member P Laxman Rao demanded filling up of thousands of posts lying vacant in 179 aided-degree colleges across the State. (INN)
2006/11/28 3:54:27 There has been large scale registration of films for dubbing with the AP State Film Producers Council as the latter imposed a ban on them from November 13. By the deadline date, a total of 113 films were registered thus defeating the very purpose of the ban. Even if the council is very particular to impose the ban, it will take at least two years as the films, numbering around 120, that were already registered with it will have to be released.
At the same time, some producers were ready to defy the ban and were ready to face the consequences by releasing the dubbing films. One producer reportedly claimed, 'I know that the council will not allow me to utilise the concession on advertisements and other things. But I have no fears and am ready to go ahead.'
While 96 straight films were released during this year, about 78 dubbed films were also released simultaneously. During the corresponding period last year, the gap is very big. Of the 130 straight Telugu films, there were only 65 dubbed films.
Though it remained just 50 per cent, the council took a hard decision to ban the dubbed films, claiming that the straight films and low budget films are not getting theatres to screen their film because the dubbed films are occupying them.
2011/4/15 6:11:29 The latest meeting held between the film federation employees unions and the producer’s council today, ends up with out finding any solution. Five unions representing costumes, light men, production boys, technicians and women workers have not agreed to the 32% hike in their salaries proposed by the producer’s council, where as the rest of the 17 unions representing different sections of the film production have agreed.
Members of the producer’s council speaking in the press meet have said that, though they are agreeing for many of the demands, unfortunately some employees unions have failed to reciprocate positively, as they have some differences between their unions. Some unions which were misguided by some persons are insisting for a 100% hike, which is not possible in the present circumstances. If, the strike continues any further ultimately it will affect the producers who have invested huge amounts on the films. Hence, the producer’s council has appealed the five unions to come forward to keep the industry run.
Business held in council for first time in four days
2012/2/17 7:12:00 The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council held business for the first time on Friday in the last four days.
When the members assembled in the House, the CPI and CPM gave adjournment motions on different issues. CPI floor leader J Wilson raised the issue of SC, ST sub-plan and alleged that funds from these departments were being diverted to complete other works. He urged the government to frame new laws to stop diversion of funds meant of SC and ST welfare.
Raising the issue of Teachers Eligibility Test, CPM leader Seetaramulu said that there was no need of TET and the government should continue with the system of DEd and DSc exams for the recruitment of teachers' posts.
The lone TRS MLC Nardas Laxman Rao raised the issue of Telangana and asked the council to pass resolution in favour of separate Telangana.
However, Council chairman Dr A Chakrapani rejected all the adjournment motions. The TRS member then staged a walkout in protest. (INN)
TDP members prevent Mopidevi from speaking in council
2012/2/23 6:45:11 Telugu Desam Party MLCs on Thursday prevented Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana from giving a reply on new Excise Policy in the State Legislative Council.
When Mopidevi stood to reply a question raised by TDP MLCs V Gangadhar Goud, B Venkateshwarulu and P Mahender Reddy, the opposition members protested and demanded that some other minister give the reply as Mopidevi has been accused of taking bribe from the liquor syndicate. Angered by TDP MLCs behaviour, the treasury benches accused the main opposition of degrading the status of the council. This led to pandemonium forcing the Chairman to adjourn the House for 10 minutes.
When the House re-assembled after 10 minutes, the Excise Minister refuted the allegations leveled by the TDP members and said that he was ready to reply on all the questions. During this, Chief Whip in the Council Padma Raju intervened and accused the opposition of trying to hijack the House. He said that the TDP members were not willing to face the reality and therefore, running away from the truth.
Condemning the TDP members' attitude, treasury bench members started raising slogans which resulted in TDP staging a walkout from the council. (INN)
Andhra Pradesh Congress president K Kesava Rao said that he will not support Akkineni Nageswara Rao for the council seat. The reason is obvious. K Kesava Rao says that Akkinenei Nageswara Rao is a die hard Telugu Desam supporter. And how can the Congress support a TDP man? Therefore KK says that there is no way the Congress government is going to nominate ANR to legislative council under the nominated quota.
However this does not put ANR out of the race. ANR has enough friends and sympathizers in the Congress. He has well wishers even in Delhi. So don’t be surprised if ANR pulls a few strings and gets into the council. He knows that there are many people in the Congress who are against KK. And hat better way to get back at KK than by supporting ANR?
2010/12/30 6:25:15 Producer Natti Kumar speaking to media said “The producer’s council has asked all the film producers and directors to stop their film shootings during the strike period. However, the producer’s council simply ignored some film producers who go on with their film shootings abroad, while the entire film industry came to grinding halt for the last 20days. I like to know, what makes the Council to ignore those producers and why did it allowed shooting during the strike period? I also like to know whether Council can take any action against them at all, for violating the orders given by it. I will write a letter to producer’s council seeking its explanation in this regard.”
Although, Natti Kumar didn’t spell anyone’s names in particular, it is to be understood that, he is speaking about Dasari Narayana Rao and Balakrishna who continues their prestigious film Parama Veera Chakra shooting abroad during the strike period.
Several film stars are reportedly in the race for Council seats. Among them are yesteryears heroine Vanisree, Veteran actor Krishna, Sri Hari, comedian Dharmavarapu Subramaniam etc. They are reportedly lobbying for being nominated in the Governor’s quota.
The Governor can nominate 12 people for the council through the Governors quota. It is believed that four of the 12 nominees would be drawn from different fields like arts, sports and business etc. The name of Pullela Gopichand is also doing the rounds. The remaining eight nominees are likely to be from the Congress.
2011/4/7 2:49:29 Few months ago, Telugu film industry came to grinding halt for near about three months over several problems including the wage revisions of the film employees. However, it ends up without finding any solutions to the problems. Once again, today the film federation employees have served a strike notice to producer’s council demanding an immediate hike in their wages. They have informed the Producer’s council that, if they don’t get any answer before tomorrow, they are going for an indefinite strike to solve their problems. Today, the Film Federation Employees and the Producer’s Council are separately holding meetings to find out a solution.
Hearing on rebel MLCs disqualification petition adjourned
2012/5/11 3:52:06 Hyderabad, May 11 (INN): Government whip and MLC Rudraraju Padmaraju informed that Legislative Council Chairman Dr Chakrapani has adjourned the hearing on disqualification petitions pending against MLC Pulla Padmavathi and Kondru Murali, who indulged in anti-party activities, to May 18 and May 28 respectively.
Talking to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party Office, Rudraraju Padmaraju stated that Kondru Murali has sent a letter stating that his health condition was bad and sought 40 days time to appear before the Council Chairman. However, Council whip Shivarami Reddy raised objection for this.
Meanwhile, Pulla Padmavathi, in a letter, stated that she has not indulged in any anti-party activities and would continue as loyal worker of Congress party. Regretting her activities with the YSR Congress party, she said that she would work as a loyal worker and campaign for the party if the leadership directs her to so.
After hearing the arguments of Shivarami Reddy, the Council Chairman Chakrapani posted the petition for next hearing for Pulla Padmavathi on May 18 and Kondru Murali on May 28.
Near about 40 films which were in different stages of film production have come to a grinding halt with the strike started by employees of film federation from Friday onwards. They are demanding a 100% wage revision for which the producer’s council is not agreeing. The representatives of the employees unions has told the media that, while the producers have find no difficulty in paying crores of rupees as remuneration to the actors, then why are they hesitating to take a load of few extra lacks for paying the employees who labors round the clock. He said they will continue the strike till the producer’s council agrees to their demands.
The latest meeting held between the film federation employees unions and the producer’s council today, ends up with out finding any solution. Five unions representing costumes, light men, production boys, technicians and women workers have not agreed to the 32% hike in their salaries proposed by the producer’s council, where as the rest of the 17 unions representing different sections of the film production have agreed. 
