TDP says ‘upheld’; show the order
YSRCP hit the streets on July 28 over Andhra’s Mega DSC-2025. The TDP government waved “High Court clearance” and moved on. Telangana doesn’t need sermons on transparency from a neighbour that can’t cite the page number.
A claim of clearance, without the order number or quoted passage.
YSRCP staged statewide protests on Tuesday, July 28, demanding Andhra Pradesh Education Minister Nara Lokesh resign and calling for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in Mega DSC-2025, the teacher recruitment drive. The party’s own announcement named Adimulapu Suresh and its student wing as organisers and said “hundreds of documents” were submitted to the Governor. Those documents were not published. (YSRCP statement; PTI report)
The ruling TDP’s response, via spokesperson N. Vijay, was to call the protests “politically desperate” and claim the recruitment was transparent, conducted without a paper leak for over 3.5 lakh aspirants, and — his key line — “upheld by the Andhra Pradesh High Court”. That flourish comes without the case numbers or passages where the court supposedly did this global upholding. (PTI report)
What the record actually shows: Mega DSC-2025 ran under Notification No. 01/Mega-DSC-TRC-1/2025 and the AP TRT Rules, 2025. The High Court has dealt with multiple petitions — candidate allocation, roster application, sports quota — issuing directions in individual cases. The Supreme Court, in June 2025, told a petitioner to move the High Court and did not rule on the merits. None of that is a blanket judicial certificate that every allegation is false. (Andhra Pradesh HC orders; Supreme Court order)
On the administration’s side, Andhra’s Education Secretary K. V. S. Sasidhar said the process followed the roster, rules and GOs, and was run through TCS iON. That’s a defence, not a judgment. (department statement reported)
For Telangana readers: when the TDP government wants to borrow the courts as a shield, it can start by naming the orders and quoting the lines. Until then, “the High Court cleared it” is a claim, not a fact — and pretending otherwise is exactly the transparency lesson nobody asked from Amaravati.