padma devender reddy

Telangana Rashtra Samiti rebel candidate padma devender reddy, who unsuccessfully contested from Medak assembly constituency in the recent elections, rejoined the party in the presence of party president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday.

padma devender reddy was on Thursday unanimously elected deputy speaker of the Telangana state assembly.The election became unanimous after the TRS woman legislator from Medak was the only nominee in the fray.

Taking a serious view of the state not acting against an agricultural society president despite its own inquiry report pointing to financial fraud by him, the Telangana high court on Thursday gave the cooperative department one month to act.

Nearly six years after the Kalyana Lakshmi-Shaadi Mubarak scheme was launched to financially help the poor parents to conduct the marriage of their daughters, several instances of parents incurring debts due to delay in getting the Kalyana Lakshmi cheques have come to the fore.

Eleven TRS MLAs were suspended from the Assembly for the day for ignoring the pleas of the chair.

The TRS on Monday launched a vitriolic attack on their former mentor and guide during the agitation for Telangana statehood M Kodandaram for his comments on the state government's functioning over the past few days.

Sirikonda Madhusudanachari on Tuesday was unanimously elected the first Speaker of Telangana assembly.

All major political parties and independents are vying with one another to capture the women voter base and beedi workers, many of whom are women, in Dubbak constituency.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers burnt an effigy of MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi protesting against his hate speech, here on Friday.

padma devender reddy of Medak, who won the seat for the third time, and hoped of earning a cabinet berth this time round.But, it wasn't to be.

For the first time after formation of Telangana state, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi appointed party presidents for all 33 districts. Among them, 19 MLAs, two MLCs, three ZP chairpersons and three MPs were chosen to head the party units at the district level.

In the Telangana assembly, three out of the four MLAs with a PhD degree are from the SC and ST communities. While there are only 26 post-graduates in the 119-member house, 15 of them are from SC and ST groups. Although educational qualifications are not mandatory for legislators, there has been a recent debate on the subject. Political analysts believe that although the Constitution does not impose restrictions, the demand for educated lawmakers has increased. The assembly also has six well-educated women MLAs.

A day after Cheruku Srinivas Reddy had crossed over to Congress, the ruling TRS gave a taste of its own medicine to the party by weaning away its general secretary of erstwhile Medak district Cheruku Kondal Reddy into its fold.