TRS stakes claim to Narasimha Rao’s legacy
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KCR fields the ex-prime minister’s daughter in MLC polls
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CM Chandrasekhar Rao handed over TRS B-Form to Vani Devi, Feb 22 (ANI)
The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has sprung a surprise with party chief and chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) picking 69-year-old Surabhi Vani Devi as its candidate for the Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahbubnagar graduates constituency in the MLC elections. She is a last-minute choice whose name was announced barely 48 hours before nominations were closed on February 23. Earlier indications were that the TRS would give the constituency a miss as, despite its best efforts, it has not been successful in the past here.
Read more about Telangana adds 114 new Covid-19 cases, one death pushes toll in 24 hours on Business Standard. The recovery rate in the state was 98.88 per cent, while it was 97.2 per cent in the country, it said
Government has to pay unemployment allowance, pending for 24 months, says BJP leader
Large vote share of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in December forced the government to roll back its Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS), and once the BJP candidate wins the seat in Legislative Council for Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates’ constituency, notifications will be released for jobs, party’s chief Bandi Sanjay said on Monday.
“The government owes ₹ 72,000 to each unemployed in the State,” he said, elaborating that the government has to pay promised Nirudyoga Bhruti Scheme’s monthly monetary allowance of ₹ 3000 for the past 24 months.
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