The Andhra Pradesh chief minister has taken a bold step today by cutting down the excise duty on fuel prices.To much of everyone’s surprise and giving a masterstroke to the opposition, the chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has declared openly that the government is cutting 2% excise duty on both petrol and diesel. By this, the petrol and diesel prices in A.P will be reduced by 2 rupees/litre. Favouring the need of the common man, Chandrababu has taken this step in the assembly today.
The cost of this bold decision taken by the chief minister is whopping 1120 Crores. By cutting 2% excise duty the government will have to take a burden of 1120 crores in the annual budget. Keeping all this aside, giving utmost importance to the common man over the exorbitant prices increased by the central government, CBN has taken this initiative.
For this, all parties have started their election campaigning and candidates selection. Coming the Saffron party in Telangana, none other than the National Supreme Amit Shah has decided to take care of the party. He himself will be acting as the star campaigner and will promote BJP in the entire Telangana. According to the sources close to the BJP bigwigs in the capital, Amit Shah will be coming to the T-state to kick start the series of 50 meetings across the state.
In this regard, the TRS bigwigs are scratching their heads in order to send one of the competitors back to have an order within the party. One has to wait and see whom would KCR trust and prefer between KK and Danam for Khairatabad. Meanwhile, some leaders who denied the ticket this time are fuming back on the pink party heads and thinking of changing the parties.
Shockingly Surekha blamed KTR for her ticket denial. According to her, KTR forced his father to discard her name from the candidates. Now she is in a thought of shifting back to the Congress if the party TRS fails to give her perfect and detailed explanation.
Talking to the conference, the AP Tourism director Shukla congratulated the entire department of AP Tourism for making the state to stand third in entire India. According to him, AP which used to attract 15% of whole India Tourists has increased to a phenomenal 22% within the past two years. From lovely beach city of Visakhapatnam to the backwaters of River Godavari, many tourists spots have established in the entire belt region of the coastal AP. He promised to develop the Tourism department more by providing much-needed infrastructure, especially to the foreigners.
Going into the details, the YSRCP completely wiped out of Telangana post the 2014 elections. Forget about contesting, many local leaders closed the party offices across the T-state after losing deposits. Such party is rumoured to be coming into existence due to the acting CM of Telangana, KCR. According to the ongoing buzz, KCR who is very interested in making more than 31 Reddy candidates to contest for early polls. So he desperately needed the support of a Reddy party. Except for YSRCP, no party in the two Telugu States is headed by Reddy.
Day by day the comments across the rival parties are increasing resulting in hot debates among the media channels. This is not the first time this TDP defected Minister made news with his tongue. It takes one counter on him to test his patience. Voters are calmly watching these new developments in AP Politics.
But there is no single word regarding this since KCR has dissolved the assembly. If we observe carefully Pawan has openly appreciated KCR a couple of times for his innovative ways of developing the state and even met him once to discuss on how he managed to develop certain things.This clearly shows that Janasena will not join hands to cash the anti-government votes. As there is no vacuum in the governance of the state, the political analysts suggest Janasenani to stay away from elections for this time.
But KCR who is observing firmly all the changes has given a masterstroke to the main opposition and as well as the other existing parties. The smart move of getting into snap polls has pushed the other parties into the dilemma. As the time factor plays a crucial role here, KCR has also announced the 105 candidates of his party out of 119 constituencies. This was another big jolt to the opposition as choosing the candidates is a big task and it takes a lot of time.
The moment KCR indirectly sent feelers into the Politics regarding this early polls, the Central Government institution Election Commission have started discussing the possibilities about early Polls for Telangana. Of course, the ruling party at the capital, BJP has extended its support expecting an alliance with the Pink party but none can predict the final stand of the Saffron party. Meanwhile, the Governor of Telangana, EL Narasimhan forwarded the request to the Chief Election Commissioner of India and asked to take perfect call for Telangana. Meanwhile, this joint Governor of AP and Telangana requested KCR to continue his ruling as the in charge of the State’s ruling until the next CM.
According to the sources, a senior officer of the EC stated that early polls are not an easy thing for Telangana as the issues like Public holidays, exams, availability of places to conduct polls into consideration. At the same time, he didn’t rule out the possibility for the early polls. The EC is going to meet every Tuesday and Friday to discuss Telangana polls. Soon a verdict from the Chief Election Commissioner will be out and it would decide the half fate of TRS.
The other day, the Telangana Chief Minister KCR finally dissolved the Telangana Assembly and ended the term of many of his MLAs. Not stopping there, the TRS Chief also released the list of his candidates who are going to contest for the early polls for maximum constituencies. AP Panchayat Minister Lokesh responded on this issue. This TDP National Chief termed the act of KCR as ridiculous and found fault with his recent actions. Lokesh felt that what KCR did a perfect blunder by dissolving the Assembly as it is a bad idea. This number two of TDP found fault with the TRS Chief for not announcing the candidates at some constituencies where BJP MLAs sitting.
Lokesh ended his attack on KCR by declaring that half of the TRS candidates in the announced list would lose for their corrupt practices. This young MLC turned Minister, however, prefer to choose silent on the alleged alliance of his Yellow party with Congress in Telangana. He got away by answering the Press that time would answer all the questions and his Chief CBN would take a call at a perfect time for the benefit of his party.
CBN has made it clear that he will be allocating the party ticket to only the people who are working honestly for the welfare of the people. He asked all the people’s representatives of the party to be in their respective constituencies and look after the issues and welfare programmes initiated by him. CBN also mentioned that he got a detailed report of all the legislators who are working and as well as neglecting the issues of the people.
The party chief has asked them to take this as a final warning from his side and also ordered them to shed down their arrogance and enhance their efforts in strengthening the party. CBN has once again made it clear that those who indulge in corrupt practices and neglects the issues of the people will not the get the party ticket for the coming elections.
KCR is on a mission to give a big blow to the opposition by not even giving them a chance to prepare for the elections. The TRS chief is making his plans to go for elections along with Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The Election Commission has to decide when to conduct the elections. It might conduct immediately or might be with other states or else might extend it for more than 6 months. The EC takes the final call considering all the ways.But as far as we concerned, the strategy of KCR would definitely work as it has even the support of the centre.
In context to this, what’s going on in KCR’s mind is very confusing and as well as exciting. Dissolving the state assembly and going for the immediate elections is a very big decision which can be taken by any chief minister. KCR will be going to all the constituencies and attends every meeting as planned by the core committee. The TRS has already planned to have 100 meetings in 50 days as we reported earlier.
KCR might be thinking of to get into the elections along with Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in the month of November. This move will surely keep the opposition in trouble. As there won’t be enough time to make a detailed strategy for the elections, KCR could easily fetch more number of seats than expected. The discussions are wide regarding KCR having an informal agreement with the centre such that both can lend a helping hand in the upcoming elections.