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40 Years Story of Karimnagar- Nizamabad rail track జనవరి 30, 2008

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Satarupa Bhattacharjya January 24, 2008 India Today
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Every Wednesday evening C.M. Ganga Ram rides his bicycle laden with snacks from his home in west Delhi to the India Today office at the city centre. Selling packets of small eats to staffers fetches him Rs 200 on a good day. At 73, Ganga Ram is your anonymous vendor, but a common man with an uncommon past.This retired mill worker and record keeper spent 40 years pursuing a project that has changed lives in his region—Telangana. Ganga Ram played an indefatigable soldier in the construction of a railway line from Peddapally to Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh—which took him the better part of his adult life.Ganga Ram’s childhood passed in Karimnagar district’s Mallial village shouting freedom slogans in the late 1930s. Poverty meant he could not continue in school beyond 1947.

C.M. Ganga Ram

C.M. Ganga Ram

During the harvest season he helped his mother in her work in the fields at six naya paise an hour. Ganga Ram’s life changed in 1953 when he had to walk 110 km from Mallial to Nizamabad. That three-day walk gave his life a new purpose.”It was unacceptable to me that years after Independence we had to travel long distances on foot,” says Ganga Ram. So he dreamt of a railway line that could connect Peddapally, the better developed neighbourhood of Mallial, to Nizamabad. (ఇంకా…)

Celluloid Chiranjeevi- Fluid Telugu Politics జనవరి 30, 2008

Posted by Telangana Utsav in Articles, Telangana.
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Can Chiranjeevi do an NTR in Andhra politics?

State leaders of the communist parties have been prodding the “wavering” actor to firm up his political plans
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The Bottom Line | G.V.L. Narasimha Rao livemint.com Jan 27, 2008
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Mega star Chiranjeevi—the reigning hero of Telugu cinema for nearly three decades—is reportedly all set to launch a regional party in March this year on the auspicious Telugu New Year Day, Ugadi.
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Chiranjeevi, known to his fans as “Chiru”, has a fan following that transcends two generations. His latest films have not had much success at the box office, yet his screen appeal remains undiminished. He has steered clear of politics so far, although he has dabbled in social service with blood- and eye-donation efforts. Chiranjeevi has been under pressure from his family members (to enter politics) as the actor is in his early 50s, already past his prime and likely to fade away.
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State leaders of the communist parties—the CPM and the CPI—have been prodding the “wavering” actor to firm up his political plans even as their national leaders have been talking of the N. Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) being a part of their grand national “third front” plans. (ఇంకా…)

Telangana Demand- Deepening crisis in Telugu politics జనవరి 30, 2008

Posted by Telangana Utsav in Articles, Deccan, Medak, Telangana.
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Tussle over Telangana  

Syed Amin Jafri, Deccan Chronilcle, January 30, 2008 

Rumblings in the Congress over separate Telangana statehood continue unabated, giving an impression that these are manifestation of dissidence against the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, rather than an expression of “pro-Telangana sentiment” prevailing in the backward region.

The Congress Working Committee member and deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Mr G. Venkatswamy, is still in a defiant mood without caring two hoots for party discipline or the order from the high command not to speak on this sensitive issue. He has emerged as the leader of a dozen-odd elected representatives of the party from Telangana including MPs, MLAs and MLCs. This ginger group is stepping up pressure on the party leadership mainly to embarrass Dr Rajasekhar Reddy, who is perceived by them as the stumbling block in the way of Telangana state.

Fully aware of the designs of Telangana protagonists, who have scores to settle with him either due to ego clash or frustration over not getting plum posts, the Chief Minister initially tried to ignore them but later decided to take on them. Several ministers and MLAs close to him have mounted a counter-attack on Mr Venkataswamy’s “brigade”, questioning the locus standi of senior leaders to rake up Telangana issue when they did nothing for separate statehood during their long political careers. Dr Rajasekhar Reddy himself teased these leaders with his controversial remark that it would not be possible for the UPA government to concede to the demand for separate Telangana before the next elections since there was no consensus among the coalition constituents on the issue and that the Congress could take a decision only if it was able to secure a majority and form the government at the Centre on its own. (ఇంకా…)