KCR for joint polls, writes to law panel
BJP-TRS secret ‘pact’ comes to the fore
TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday expressed the party’s complete support to the Centre’s proposal to hold simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state Assemblies across the country.
The proposal has been opposed by the Congress, Trinamul, CPI, DMK, AAP and the MIM. It has found support with NDA-ally Shiromani Akali Dal, and the TRS backing of the measure raised speculation of a “secret alliance” between the TRS and the BJP.
Polls in undivided AP, and now in Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh, are usually held with the Lok Sabha elections.
In a letter written to the National Law Commission, which conducted meetings with all political parties, to seek their views on simultaneous polls, Mr Rao said that holding elections separately for the Lok Sabha and the Assembly was hampering development and welfare activities being undertaken by state governments due to the model code of conduct being imposed for several months.
TRS deputy floor leader in Lok Sabha B. Vinod Kumar who attended the National Law Commission meeting on Sunday on behalf of the TRS, handed over Mr Rao’s letter to commission chairman Justice B.S. Chauhan.
A 28-year-old employee at the Income Tax Wing at the GST Hyderabad unit was cheated by a man who forged the signatures of Chief Minister’s personal secretary, Rajashekar Reddy, on a joining order as a junior assistant in the Revenue department in Telangana State Secretariat.
The woman, Nagamani, currently working as a contract employee at the IT Wing took the order to the officials of revenue department at the Secretariat where the officials told her that the order was not issued by the department and directed her to the C block in the secretariat premises, which houses CM’s office to meet Rajashekar Reddy himself.
“She was told there that the order was a fake and she could have been cheated and the officials at the place also alerted the Saifabad police immediately, following which a case of cheating and forgery was registered and investigation was started” officials said.