Sarcasm as a Social Service. The SaaS Telangana didn’t ask for but needs.
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Konda Sushmitha says she’ll fight from Parkal — with or without a Congress ticket — and dares the Chief Minister to make his MLA resign now and campaign against her. The Congress family photo keeps blinking.
Narsampet municipal staff tore down a plinth built for former MLA and BRS leader Peddi Sudarshan Reddy’s statue in the middle of the night. By morning, BRS was on the road asking why permissions appear to matter only when the Congress is in office.
BRS leaders say Hyderabad police stopped them from visiting the just-inaugurated Sanathnagar TIMS, while the gate carried a notice pausing inpatient admissions for “sanitation”. The BJP and TDP are busy elsewhere; the Congress government had time to cut a ribbon and guard a door.
A claim did the rounds that police “foiled” a BRS visit to TIMS Sanathnagar and put leaders under house arrest. The evidence to back that up hasn’t shown up yet.
A market committee in Karimnagar got new office-bearers. What it also got, per one report, is a public quarrel inside the Congress the party has not bothered to explain.
KCR has named constituency in-charges across all 119 Assembly segments to push a statewide digital membership drive. The work is real, the ticket gossip is just that — gossip.
The BJP’s Telangana chief called the Congress government “non-serious” on Godavari projects. The files show inspections happened, substations were charged, and Sita Rama works and land acquisition are still moving — not abandoned. The claim is loud; the paperwork is louder.
Dasoju Sravan says a Banjara Hills commercial building saw suspected voter entries rise from 19 to 44 during the Special Intensive Revision. He wants the Election Commission to audit, verify on the ground and fix it — before the Congress gets to pretend this is all routine.
BRS hit the streets over Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak. The Congress government says little in public; its own budget quietly keeps the schemes — and quietly skips the gold it sold in 2023.
Narsampet officials tore down the pedestal for former BRS MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy’s statue at night. On private land, opposite the government medical college. BRS hit the streets; the Congress-led administration has yet to explain what rule it used — or why it needed the dark.
Telangana’s roll clean-up has flagged around 89.88 lakh entries for anomalies after mapping 2.38 crore voters to the 2002 list. Notices and hearings follow the draft roll — correction, not purge. The BJP-led Centre’s spin and Congress’s shadow-boxing can wait; the schedule and the CEO’s words are on record.
A report says Andhra moved to reopen seven Telangana projects at the August 18 GRMB meet. Harish Rao says the Congress government here couldn’t be bothered to answer. The law is clear on process; the silence is on the Congress.
Telangana’s anti-defection fight moves in inches; the Congress narrative sprints in miles. The court record hasn’t caught up with the press bytes.
Draft rolls are out in Telangana. Claims and objections run till September 16; the final list lands October 19. In between, expect national parties to shout “deletion” before reading the schedule.
ADR’s affidavit data puts Congress CM Revanth Reddy first for declared cases. A viral ‘ranking’ then makes a BJP MLA West Bengal’s chief minister. That’s not a detail; that’s the whole claim collapsing.
ECI’s SIR is live; Hyderabad’s exact counts are claimed in a report, not yet in an official list. The portal to answer a notice is up either way.
At a Malkajgiri protest, BRS’s T Harish Rao said Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy should quit over private properties allegedly landing on the Section 22A prohibited list. He wants a probe, a white paper and fixes — now.
Protests across Telangana pressed the Congress government to say, on the record, what it plans for Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak. The budget funds the schemes; the silence does not.
BRS tells High Court the Speaker looked only inside the House and missed the defections happening in full public view outside it. The case resumes after an adjournment — and the Congress government’s beneficiaries still haven’t explained how a Congress B‑form isn’t, well, Congress.
A Bhupalpally journalist says Congress functionaries beat him at home for his reporting. The BJP and TDP have nothing to say, and the sitting Congress MLA has not bothered to answer the allegation that it happened with his backing.