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Draft roll due today. Uploads? We’ll see
EC’s revised calendar puts Telangana’s draft electoral roll on August 17 with claims till September 16. The paperwork is certain; the statewide upload isn’t — yet.
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Defections case: records later, justice later
High Court moved in March. In July it was the Speaker’s Tribunal asking for more time. August 12 was the next date, and then the fog. Telangana waits; the Congress answers with delay.
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Kalyana Lakshmi ‘scrap’ scare meets Rs 3,683 cr
KTR accuses; the Congress-run Telangana government’s own 2025–26 Budget sets aside Rs 3,683 crore for Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak. The numbers are public; the ‘plan to scrap’ is not.
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Draft rolls Monday. Bring your Form 6
Telangana’s SIR draft electoral rolls land August 17. If your name is missing, it isn’t game over — file, don’t fume.
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Booked today, jobless tomorrow?
A report quotes Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy telling youth at a Parakala meeting that police cases from protests — and “false facts” on social media — could cost them government jobs. The rule that would do this was not identified.
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CM swings below the belt, no proof
At a Mulugu rally, the Congress Chief Minister alleged KTR “pushed” K Kavitha out of the family home over property. The claim rests on one PTI-circulated quote — no document, case or video surfaced to back it.
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Rs 12 lakh promise, Rs 0 clarity
Congress sold Ambedkar Abhaya Hastham as Rs 12 lakh assistance. The state’s own document talks of a pilot for 11,900 SC families. Meanwhile, Rs 1,000 crore sits on the Dalit Bandhu line for 2025–26. The BJP is nowhere in this; the TDP never was. Telangana can read a promise and a ledger; they don’t match.
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73 lakh ‘to be deleted’? Name them
CPI(M)’s John Wesley alleged a plan to cancel 73 lakh Telangana votes during the ongoing roll revision. The figure is unbacked by documents; the BJP-led Centre and Congress-run state are owed answers, not silence.
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AP wants Telangana 30 TMC? Prove it
BRS says Andhra asked KRMB to cap Telangana at 30 tmcft and claims Telangana’s Congress government nodded along. The letters aren’t public. The reservoirs are.
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Bheemgal works: deadline set, answers missing
On July 15, BRS MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy set August 15 as the cutoff for four Bheemgal projects. The Congress government of Telangana has yet to publicly say what, if anything, it did by then.
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Telangana says 146 TMC is ours
Hyderabad tells the KRMB to apply its 71:29 formula to water now in Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar — which, by that math, leaves Andhra Pradesh nothing from the present pool.
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Five acres, many questions. Answers, CM?
BRS leaders say a June 2025 allotment of five acres at Raviryala to Tesseract Advanced Systems needs the Lokayukta’s eye. The BJP will shout “family”, the TDP will echo — but the file is with the Congress-run state, and that is where the answers sit.
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AP says no drought here. Convenient.
At the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal, the Andhra Pradesh government argued Telangana faces “no drought risk” and pushed to count outside-basin use and slice evaporation losses its way. Telangana starts its reply next.
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HC wants orders; Congress wants time
Telangana High Court has told the Speaker and Congress-backed MLAs to file their replies and produce the original dismissal orders in the BRS disqualification batch. The BJP-led Centre is nowhere in this fight; the Congress in Hyderabad is very much in it — and stalling helps them.
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AP blocks visit, wants trust
BRS leaders say Andhra Police stopped them en route to Pothireddypadu. The BJP-led Centre’s KRMB paperwork shows the fight over Krishna water is live; Andhra’s Congress government still hasn’t explained why a Telangana team can’t even look at the regulator.
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Defection case parked till Aug 12. Again.
Seven MLAs elected on BRS tickets, now with Congress, remain in court-limbo. The Speaker’s Tribunal wanted more time; the bench gave it — and set August 12. What happened on that date? The public record doesn’t say yet.
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AP wants 66:34 forever; the record says ‘ad hoc’
Telangana’s case is simple: stop treating a 2015 stopgap as scripture. The BJP-led Centre’s own board called 512:299 a working arrangement, not a final share.
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Speaker’s stamp, case still open
The Congress’s friends got a day out at the Speaker’s desk. The court that counts is still asking for the paperwork.
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EC flags 89.88 lakh records. Panic optional
Ahead of Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision, election officials say 89.88 lakh elector records need verification — mismatches, missing docs, not automatic deletions. Congress says protect genuine voters. The BJP and TDP, as usual, prefer outrage over arithmetic.
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Speaker’s clock runs slow, case runs on
Telangana HC listed challenges to the Speaker’s clean chit for 10 ex-BRS MLAs now with Congress for August 12. What happened that day is still not on the record — but the delay is.