The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) requested the Election Commission to take stringent action against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and his henchmen to ensure a fair and free polling process in Munugode bypolls.

Hyderabad Nov 18 PTI Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao his cabinet colleagues and ruling TRS leaders staged a dharna here on Thursday in protest against the NDA governments alleged unhelpful stance over paddy procurement in the stateRao who made a blistering attack on BJP charged the saffron party with indulging in communal politics and provoking religious sentiments by taking the name of Pakistan every time elections were heldThe BJP-led NDA government has been unhelpful to Telangana during the last about eight years and it handed over seven mandals of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh and did not deliver on assurances made to the state he saidIn spite of all these the TRS government showed patience as Telangana was a new state but there is a limit he saidThere has been no response from the Centre though his government had sought to know from Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal about the extent of paddy procurement in the state he claimedI am asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji with folded hands I wrote a letter also yesterday Fifty days ago we humbly asked that minister Piyush Goyal You tell us if you will not buy We will tell our farmers to go for other crops But there has been no response he saidSensing that the Centre was not in favour of paddy procurement the state government had asked the farmers to go for alternative crops in the summer season but the state BJP leaders asked them to cultivate paddyThe state BJP leaders indulged in politics without getting an approval from the Centre on paddy procurement issue he allegedNoting that five lakh metric tons of paddy of last summer season is still lying with the state government he said the rice would be dumped at the BJP office if it is not procuredBJP leaders might be thinking that TRS would be worried about the posts of Chief Minister and ministers But it had given up key posts like Union Minister MLA MP for the sake of Telangana Rao saidIf it is necessary if it becomes inevitable definitely Telangana Rashtra Samithi would take leadership for the sake of Indias farming community he saidRao asserted that the TRS would fight till the end over the NDA governments anti-people policies anti-farmer lawsThe NDA government has kept pending many Telangana issues including classification of SCs and increased quotas for STs he allegedAll are observing All have understood Your surgical strikes your drama at the borders your hoodwinking everything got exposed and has come out in the open he saidWithout addressing the crucial issues of water and others BJP indulged in Hindu-Muslim communalism and provoking peoples sentiments by taking Pakistans name whenever elections are held he allegedObserving that TRS would also fight for the country he said India is not using more than 2 lakh mega watt electricity though 4 lakh mega watt is availableThe BJP-led government at the Centre would not respond when they are asked whether they are going to purchase paddy or not he said They do harakiri when asked about it the agitation should spread across the country This should reach every household in the country Telangana needs to take leadership We have to get ready for another fight he saidResponding to BJPs criticism of the party for holding dharnas on the paddy procurement issue Rao said Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister held protests for 51 hours in 2006After the dharna a TRS delegation including agriculture minister S Niranjan Reddy submitted a memorandum to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan in Raj Bhavan over the issueThe agitation by Rao and other TRS leaders came against the backdrop of a war of words between ruling TRS and BJP over paddy procurement and a clash between the activists of the two parties during state BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumars visit to procurement centres this weekBJP MLA Eatala Rajender who responded to the CMs comments said Rao repeatedly asked whether the Centre is purchasing paddy or notRao had earlier said that Telangana is the only state to purchase entire paddy from farmers He did not make any reference to the Centre and sought to claim credit Rajender said PTI SJR ROH ROH

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Eatala Rajender won by a margin of 23,855 votes against TRS’s G Srinivas Yadav in the Huzurabad bypoll.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Eatala Rajender won by a margin of 23,855 votes against TRS’s G Srinivas Yadav in the Huzurabad bypoll.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Eatala Rajender won by a margin of 23,855 votes against TRS’s G Srinivas Yadav in the Huzurabad bypoll.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Eatala Rajender won by a margin of 23,855 votes against TRS’s G Srinivas Yadav in the Huzurabad bypoll.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 3 (ANI): After Congress lost the Huzurabad bypolls on Tuesday, Telangana party chief Revanth Reddy, while taking full responsibility for the loss, said that the by-elections do not determine the future of the party.

New Delhi [India], October 31 (ANI): Over 86 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the bypoll to Huzurabad assembly constituency in Telangana on Saturday.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 30 (ANI): Huzurabad assembly constituency in Telangana reported a total voter turnout of 61.66 per cent for the by-poll by 3:30 pm on Saturday, according to the Election Commission.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 30 (ANI): Huzurabad assembly constituency in Telangana reported a total voter turnout of 45.63 per cent for the by-poll by 1 pm on Saturday.