Telangana became the latest entrant, the newest State to be born in
India. Carved out of Andhra Pradesh, it is located on the
centre-south stretch on high Deccan Plateau. It is the twelfth largest
state and the twelfth-most populated state in India. On 2 June 2014, the
area was separated from the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh as the newly
formed 29th state with Hyderabad as its historic
permanent capital. Its other major cities include Warangal, Nizamabad, Khammam
and Karimnagar. Telangana is bordered by the states of Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Andhra.
It has a
long and chequered history – the Telangana Rebellion was a peasant
revolt, tumulted in 1946 by communists. It originated in the Nalgonda
district raised to be against the feudal landlords and later against the
Nizam Osman Ali Khan. The violent phase of the movement ended after the
Government of India's Operation Polo. Later in 1951, the CPI shifted to a more
moderate strategy of seeking to bring communism to India within the framework
of Indian democracy. On 30 July 2013, the Congress Working Committee
unanimously passed a resolution to recommend the formation of a separate
Telangana state. After various stages the bill was placed in the Parliament of
India in February 2014. In February 2014, Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation
Act, 2014 bill was passed by the Parliament of India for the formation of
Telangana state comprising ten districts from north-western Andhra Pradesh.
The state
of Telangana was officially formed on 2 June 2014. Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar
Rao was elected as the first chief minister of Telangana, following elections
in which the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party secured majority. Hyderabad
continued as the joint capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
for a period, not more than 10 years; however, Andhra Pradesh selected Amaravati
as capital and moved its legislature by Mar 2017. Now Telangana is
in news for elections !
Esa Bin
Obaid Misri probably has little trouble punching above his weight. Indeed, the
award-winning bodybuilder remembers how he knocked out a wrestler twice his age
and size when he was around 20. He has vowed to defeat Akbaruddin Owaisi,
the Telanagna state lawmaker representing Chandrayanagutta in Hyderabad.
Misri, 49, has spent his life wrestling and pumping iron, and next
month's election will mark his debut in politics. Esa Misri runs a gym,
has Yemeni roots and is contesting on a Congress ticket. Sources
said the Congress chose him since Chandrayanagutta is known for its cultural
and historic connections with Arabic nations !! – nothing strange !!! Telangana
Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Telangana Legislature. The
Legislative Assembly of Telangana currently consists of 119 elected members and
1 nominated member from the Anglo-Indian community.
Elections
for the Telangana Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be held on 7 December
2018 to constitute the second Legislative Assembly. Incumbent CM
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao went for early elections in 2018, by
resigning six months before the completion of his term. TRS chief
and Telangana’s first chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) is a wealthy
farmer with assets worth ₹22 crore. But, according to an affidavit filed with
his nomination papers, he doesn’t own a car. Ironically, his party’s symbol is
a car.
Four
years ago, when he contested Telangana’s first election in 2014, KCR had said
he didn’t own a car. On taking office in 2014, he had changed the colour of
three of the six cars in his official convoy from black to white, apparently
after consulting an astrologer. In 2015, his government added four new Toyota
Land Cruiser Prados to his convoy. The cost was estimated at nearly ₹1 crore,
which included bullet-proofing of the vehicles. Rao, who filed his nomination
from Gajwel on Wednesday, listed his profession as ‘agriculturalist’ and
declared a net income of ₹91.5 lakh annually. Despite this, he has told the
Election Commission that he owes his son KT Rama Rao ₹84 lakh, and his
daughter-in-law K Shailima ₹24 lakh. While filing his nomination papers in
2014, KCR had declared himself to be a businessman and a farmer. He has now
chosen to give up the ‘businessman’ tag. He’s among the very few prominent
politicians in the country without either a Facebook or Twitter account.
The chief
minister has mentioned that he has invested ₹3.2 crore in his farm and the
total value of the farmhouse is ₹6.5 crore. He had bought it for ₹1.3 crore. He
had 37 acres in 2014 when he became chief minister after the Telangana
agitation. Today, it has grown to 54 acres. His total assets were ₹15 crore four
years ago and have now increased to ₹22 crore. KCR hasn’t taken loans from
banks, but has unsecured loans from Prathima Group chairman Boniapally
Srinivasa Rao who is close to the KCR clan. The chief minister has also taken
loans from Pact Securities and Financials Services, a company promoted
Boinapally Srinivas Rao’s wife Boinapally Usharani. He has also borrowed from
TRS MP G Vivekanand. KCR has investments in companies that run a TV channel and
a newspaper. He owns gold jewellery worth ₹2.4 lakh, while his wife has
diamonds and gold worth ₹93 lakh.
KCR is
facing 63 criminal cases across Telangana, most registered by the government
railway police during the Telangana agitation. In his affidavit, he said that
as the summons have not been issued, he is not aware of case numbers and the
jurisdiction of the courts. Most of the cases relate to criminal conspiracy,
rioting, disobeying orders promulgated by public servant, unlawful assembly,
Prevention of Damage to Public Properties Act, criminal trespass and violation
of Indian Railways Act.
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
15th Nov
2018
PS 1: collated from various sources including
Wikipedia, Firstpost, Times of India & Indian Express.
2. : Mullath Kadingi Vellodi CIE, ICS was the
first CM though not an elected one. He was appointed by Govt of
India after the fall of the Hyderabad state ruled by Nizam rule. A member of
the Indian Civil Service, he was Textile Commissioner and ex-officio Joint
Secretary in the Department of Industries and Civil Supplies during the British
Raj. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in
the 1944 Birthday Honours list.
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