Assembly opens September 7; promises face the music
The monsoon session begins as the BRS and BJP prepare separate campaigns over Congress government promises, fee reimbursement and land restrictions.

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The monsoon session begins as the BRS and BJP prepare separate campaigns over Congress government promises, fee reimbursement and land restrictions.
A Karimnagar protest alleges patta lands were placed under Section 22A restrictions. The acreage and survey details remain unverified.
HYDRAA, Musi, food safety, urea and land disputes have kept Telangana’s Congress government busy. The record is more complicated than the slogan—and less flattering than the press conference.
The Telangana chief minister praised Asaduddin and Akbaruddin Owaisi at a Hyderabad event. Bandi Sanjay replied with questions, allegations and a school of patriotism.
Konda Surekha has been removed from Telangana’s Council of Ministers with immediate effect. The official communication gives no reason; the Congress explanation is doing its usual work in the background.
On September 3, the second day of its planned week-long campaign, BRS held farmer meetings, rallies and land protests across several Telangana districts. The Congress government’s numbers answer some charges; its silence on the protest itself answers none.
Telangana BJP chief N. Ramchander Rao and other party workers were detained during a Hyderabad march over pending fee-reimbursement dues. The amount remains contested; the backlog does not.
The BRS has taken the Telangana Congress government’s milestone and turned it into a week-long accountability campaign. The government has a broader achievement list; the promise-by-promise audit is still missing.
The BRS working president said he would lead a Kodad–Halia padayatra if the Telangana government does not publish a Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal release schedule.
The BRS says Telangana’s promises remain unpaid. In Miryalaguda, the Congress government allowed a changed venue but rejected the farmers’ rally route, citing traffic and road constraints.
The Chief Minister’s Office said Konda Surekha would be dropped from the Telangana cabinet with immediate effect and that a recommendation had been sent to the Governor. Surekha says she will remain in Congress and attend Assembly sessions.
At a BRS farmers’ protest in Miryalaguda, K. T. Rama Rao demanded a Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal release schedule by September 14 and threatened a Kodad–Haliya padayatra if the government offered no clarity.
Reports say the Revanth Reddy government sent a removal recommendation to the Governor. The government’s own website still lists Konda Surekha as a minister.
The Telangana government’s headline number includes 50,785 recruitment processes begun under the previous BRS government. Its own Assembly reply supplied the smaller number for notifications issued after Congress took office.
Nalgonda police denied the BRS procession through town but permitted a 3 p.m. protest at the NSP Camp Ground on Thursday, September 3. The party is demanding water for the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal.
The Revenue Minister challenged the BRS to debate in the Assembly, while the Opposition’s guarantee campaign heads for its next round. The debt figure remains a claim, not a balance-sheet entry.
Consultations over possible action against Telangana minister Konda Surekha continued, but the high command had announced no final decision by September 3.
Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy was reported to have acknowledged that the Congress government has not implemented some election promises, with lack of funds cited as the explanation.
A report says police halted a BRS procession in Hanamkonda and took leaders to Subedari police station. The legal basis, number detained and release status remain unknown.
KTR says KCR will return only as chief minister; the record currently shows an MLA, a prediction and a 23-page political charge sheet.