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Click to read KCR's party protest in Telangana over cooking gas price increase

The demonstrators, including women, squat on roads with LPG bottles. (representative) Hyderabad: The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) held protest demonstrations across Telangana on Thursday against the increase in the price of LPG cylinders and requested the Center to reverse the increased amount. BRS ministers including T Harish Rao, Mohd Mahmood Ali, T Srinivas Yadav, V Prashant Reddy, V…

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Former Supreme Court Judge Abdul Nazeer Takes Oath As Andhra Pradesh Governor

Former Supreme Court judge Justice S. Abdul Nazeer was sworn in as Governor of Andhra Pradesh on Friday. AP High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra administered the oath of office to Justice Nazeer at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Vijayawada. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, ministers, TDP chief  N. Chandrababu Naidu, judges, and top officials attended the ceremony. The leaders…

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పార్లమెంట్ వేదికగా రాష్ట్ర విభజన సరిగ్గా జరగలేదంటున్న ప్రధాని మోడీ,హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా మాటల వెనుక ఆంతర్యం ఏంది..?

పార్లమెంట్ వేదికగా రాష్ట్ర విభజన సరిగ్గా జరగలేదంటున్న ప్రధాని మోడీ,హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా మాటల వెనుక ఆంతర్యం ఏంది..?

బాల్కొండ నియోజకవర్గంలోని వేల్పూర్,మోర్తాడ్,ఏర్గట్ల మండలాల్లో 5.11 కోట్ల వ్యయంతో చేపట్టే పలు అభివృద్ధి పనుల శంకుస్థాపన,ప్రారంభోత్సవ కార్యక్రమంలో రాష్ట్ర రోడ్లు-భవనాలు,గృహ నిర్మాణ మరియు శాసనసభ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి శనివారం పాల్గొన్నారు.మంత్రి శంకుస్థాపన,ప్రారంభోత్సవం చేసిన అభివృద్ధి పనుల వివరాలు: వేల్పూర్ మండలం ���క్లూర్ గ్రామంలో20 లక్షలతో నూతన గ్రామ పంచాయతీ బిల్డింగ్…

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Industries will not come in the state as long as there is KCR government: MP Arvind

BJP MP Dharmapuri Aravind lashed out at Telangana state minister Prashant Reddy. Nanganachi's words like "Arvind keeps scolding us for everything. No matter how many words he says," Nanganachi suggested that he should focus on his work first. Prashant Reddy asked KCR how much he would give to the turmeric farmers. People were told that if there is to be development in Telangana, BRS should be defeated and a double engine government should be brought. Arvind alleged that those who came to set up a turmeric refining industry in Nizamabad ran away due to fear of commissions. Arvind said that if someone comes to set up industries in the district, the sufferings of Prashant Reddy and others are not all that much. He said that no industries came here during the days of the KCR government and no cooperation was received from the government to implement central schemes.

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📽PK Biography: Who is Jan Suraj's 🙏 Prashant Kishore- Early Life, 🕺 Politics, Career All Details Here

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A Little about Prashant Kishore

Knowing who is Prashant Kumar is the time demand. Let's make a knowledge on the life of this extraordinary activist in the discourse here. Political strategist and corporate tactician Prashant Kishor. Political strategist Kishor has worked for the BJP, INC, AAP, YSRCP, DMK, and TMC. In India, Prashant Kishor is a well-known election strategist. When his political effort to support then-CM of Gujarat Narendra Modi won the 2012 Assembly Elections, he rose to prominence. Kishor was trained in public health and spent eight years working for the UN before entering Indian politics. He split ways with Modi during the 2014 elections and collaborated with Nitish Kumar in 2015 to help him win a third term as chief minister of Bihar in the 2015 Assembly Elections. He was employed by the Congress party to run in the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections. Kishor was chosen to serve as a DMK strategist for the elections in Tamil Nadu and as an advisor to the All India Trinamool Congress for the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. Read: What is Agnipath Scheme 2022, Agniveer Apply Online- Eligibility, Full Details?

Contribution in Modi campaigns

The 44-year-old strategist came to the public's attention when he founded Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG), an election campaign organisation that assisted the Bharatiya Janata Party in winning the 2014 Lok Sabha election by a landslide. For PM Modi, he created cutting-edge advertising campaigns including Chai pe Charcha, 3D rallies, Run for Unity, Manthan, and other social media initiatives. Read Also: Angel Sighting that will make you wonder about heaven- true or not?

Major activities in post 2014 Lokshava election

He changed CAG to Indian Political Action Committee after 2014 (I-PAC). Along with Bihar, Kishor and his I-PAC team collaborated with Jagan Mohan Reddy of the YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh and Captain Amarinder Singh in Punjab. His method has so far only failed once, during the 2017 election in Uttar Pradesh, when he collaborated with the Indian National Congress. He also served as the Aam Aadmi Party's strategist during the 2020 election for the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which the party was able to win with a majority of 62 seats out of 70. He is currently collaborating with Mamata Banerjee of the AITC in West Bengal and MK Stalin of the DMK in Tamil Nadu.

Party Joining Shortly

Kishor joined the Janata Dal (United) in 2018, but was kicked out in 2020 for opposing Nitish Kumar's stance in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Kishor was chosen to serve as an All India Trinamool Congress advisor for the 2021 election for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. His clever plan enabled TMC to re-establish the government. For the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election that year, the DMK leader M K Stalin hired Kishor as a party strategist. The party gained 159 seats, and Stalin was elected chief minister for the first time. Kishor was awarded the position of a Cabinet Minister in March 2021 and designated as Amarinder Singh's primary advisor for a cost of Re 1. Elections for the Punjab Assembly are scheduled.

Declaration of Prashant Kishore on political retirement

Prashant Kishor declared his resignation as an electoral strategist following the victory of the TMC and DMK in the 2021 assembly elections. Kishor stated during an interview with a few new stations that "I don't want to carry on in this manner. I've accomplished enough. It's time for me to stop and move on with my life. I want to leave this room." https://youtu.be/wbuua2MJzuQ

Points to Ponder about Prashant Kishore

Date of Birth: 1978 Birthplace: Koran village, Rohtas district, Bihar. Hometown: Buxar, Bihar. Education from: Patna Science College, Bihar Caste: Brahmin Spouse: Janhavi Das (doctor) Children: Son- Diabik Father: Shrikant Pande (Doctor) Read the full article

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Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra has been sworn in as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra has been sworn in as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court

Judge Prashant Kumar Mishra was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh Supreme Court on Wednesday in Tummalapalli Kalakshetram in the city. The governor’s oath was made by Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan in the presence of Prime Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy after reading the approval of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Later, Harichandan and Jagan Mohan Reddy greeted the Chief…

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Justice Nazeer to take oath as AP Governor today

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, along with his spouse Bharathi, met AP Governor-designate Justice Abdul Nazeer and his wife Sameera Nazeer at the Raj Bhavan here on Thursday. Justice Nazeer is all set to take oath as Governor of Andhra Pradesh at a swearing-in ceremony scheduled at the Raj Bhavan on Friday at 9 am. AP High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra will…

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బండి సంజయ్ నీ మిలియన్ మార్చ్ మోడీ దగ్గర చేయి...మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి

బండి సంజయ్ నీ మిలియన్ మార్చ్ మోడీ దగ్గర చేయి…మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి

నిజామాబాద్ జిల్లా బాల్కొండ నియోజకవర్గంలో పలు అభివృద్ధి కార్యక్రమాల్లో రాష్ట్ర రోడ్లు-భవనాలు,గృహ నిర్మాణ మరియు శాసనసభ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి పాల్గొన్నారు.మోతె కప్పల వాగు పై 12 కోట్ల వ్యయం తో నిర్మించే హై లెవల్ బ్రిడ్జ్,మోర్తాడ్ తక్కురివాడ పాయింట్ వద్ద పెద్దవాగు పై 9.5 కోట్ల వ్యయంతో నిర్మించే చెక్ డ్యామ్,వడ్యాట్ గ్రామంలో మోర్తాడ్ ౼ వడ్యాట్ R&B రోడ్ 1.5 కోట్లతో పునరుద్ధరణ…

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20 IAS officers promoted to ACS in UP

Lucknow, June 18  The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh government has promoted 20 IAS officers to the post of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS). Among the IAS officers who have been promoted, nine are from the 1988 batch and 11 are from the 1989 batch. The promotion of the two batches, due in 2018, was approved by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Additional Chief Secretary, appointments, Mukul Singhal said that all officers from the two batches had been promoted to the ACS rank. The officers promoted to the ACS rank include Alok Kumar I, Rajneesh Dubey, Rajan Shukla, Navneet Kumar Sehgal, N.V.S. Rami Reddy, Manoj Kumar Singh, Turamalla Venkatesh, Arvind Kumar and S. Radha Chauhan of 1988 batch, and S.P. Goel, Devesh Chaturvedi, Monika S. Garg, Aradhana Shukla, Dimple Verma, Prashant Trivedi, Manoj Singh, Amit Mohan Prasad, Suresh Chandra, Sanjay R. Bhoosreddy and Anil Kumar of 1989 batch. Read the full article

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Protests erupt across India against CAA; 3 killed - india news

Two persons were killed in Mangaluru, Karnataka and one person died in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, due to gunshot wounds sustained during nationwide protests held against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed pan-India National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Thursday.Jaleel (49) and Nausheen (23) died after receiving firearm injuries, as the police sought to control protests that took place across multiple cities in Karnataka, including Mangaluru. In Lucknow, Mohd Wakeel, a resident of Hussainabad, died as police cracked down on protesters in the capital city of UP. The Director General of Police however said that the police has nothing to do with Wakeel’s death, and that an investigation will be carried out in this matter.Protests were held across 56 cities in 24 states and Union Territories on December 19, leading to the imposition of Section 144 — which prevents the gathering of four or more persons in a given place as a riot-prevention measure — in many parts of the country, including Delhi, several cities of Karnataka such as Bengaluru, Mangaluru, and Mysuru, as well as all the districts of Assam. Mobile services, voice calls and internet services were suspended in parts of the country, including in the Northeast. Police vs protestersSeveral persons, including policemen were injured in violence in parts of UP, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat during the day-long protest over the new citizenship law. Police opened fire in Mangaluru after confronted by stone-pelting protesters, as a result of which a resident of the port area, 49-year-old Jaleel and a resident of Bengre, 23-year-old Nausheen were critically injured, and later succumbed to their wounds. Manguluru police commissioner P S Harsha told the media that the police were forced to open fire in self-defence, and that 20 policemen have been seriously injured. Police have imposed curfew in the city till Friday midnight. The UP police confirmed that 112 people were arrested in Lucknow after they participated in the protests. At least 16 policemen, including ADG Lucknow SN Sabat and IG Lucknow SK Bhagat, were injured in Lucknow while two cops were injured in Sambhal, police said.Around the country, hundreds of protesters were detained. About 100 students from Maulana Azad Urdu University, Central University Hyderabad and Osmania University detained in Hyderabad; noted historian Ramachandra Guha, Congress legislator Sowmya Reddy and MLA-elect Rizwan Arshad, as well as Gandhian activist and theatre personality Prasanna were detained in Bengaluru; Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav, former Patiala Parliamentarian Dharamvir Gandhi, former National Advisory Council member Harsh Mander, lawyer activist Prashant Bhushan and social activist John Dayal were among those detained in Delhi.Various student groups, civil society groups, ordinary citizens and Opposition political parties participated in protests on Thursday to condemn the CAA, the proposed all-India NRC as well as the violence which occurred in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), a university in Delhi, and Aligarh Muslim University on December 15. Police had entered JMI and AMU and assaulted students and fired tear gas shells at them. Over 50 JMI students were detained, and several injured. In most locations, including Delhi and Mumbai, protests were peaceful as thousands came out into the streets. In Rajasthan, a hundreds-strong protest in Jaipur progressed peacefully, a senior police officer said. Protests were also held in Sikar and Ganganagar at the call of the Left parties. The protests were peaceful and there were no reports of imposition of section 144 or suspension of internet services in the state. Peaceful protests were also held in the Jammu and Kashmir, Dehradun and Simla. In Chandigarh, Muslim outfits were joined by students and Sikh outfits to register their dissent. Protests at Parivartan Chowk, Madeyganj and Satkhanda localities in Lucknow turned violent, with demonstrators lobbing stones at the police, and the cops retaliating with batons, tear gas shells, water cannons and alleged gunfire. Violence was also reported from two other districts in UP, in Sambhal and Amroha. In Sambhal, a group of Samajwadi Party (SP) protestors set a UP Road Transport Corporation bus on fire, the police said. “One cannot indulge in violence in the name of protest. We will take strict action against such elements,” UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said.At AMU, teachers took out a silent march. “We feel that we are fighting for the idea of India as envisaged by the founding fathers of the nation. This is not a struggle for the rights of any particular community,” AMU Teachers Association secretary, Professor Najmul Islam said.In Bihar, members of Left-wing student organisations squatted on railway tracks at Rajendra Nagar Terminus early in the morning, while hundreds of activists of Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), floated by former MP Pappu Yadav burnt tyres on an adjacent road, police said. In Jehanabad, which had been a stronghold of the ultra-Left movement in Bihar, CPI(ML) activists disrupted traffic on national highways. Violent turnThe Gujarat Police used baton-charge at Sardar Baug and Shah Alam, the two localities in Ahmedabad city, on Thursday after alleged stone pelting. Police claimed that 14 policemen were injured. “Despite repeated requests, the protestors refused to disperse and started pelting stones in which police personnel got injured. We had to use force to disperse the unruly crowd,” said Ashish Bhatia, Ahmedabad police commissioner. Protests in West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya were largely peaceful even though rallies were taken out to oppose CAA and NRC. In Chandigarh and Jammu, the Left and Congress workers held protest rallies.Police reportedly resorted to a lathi charge to disperse a crowd after stone pelting created panic in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, said a police officer who didn’t wish to be quoted.The ruling BJP and the government maintained there won’t be any rethink on implementation of the new citizenship law. Slamming the opposition for protesting against the new law, BJP working president J P Nadda said on Thursday that the CAA will be implemented, and that the National Register of Citizens will also be brought in.“India today has the ignominy of being the largest internet shutdown in the world... This is worse than Emergency,” Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, who was detained in Delhi, said.Earlier this month, the Parliament passed the amended act to allow undocumented migrants from six communities — Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Christian, Parsi, and Jain — to stay in India and get citizenship if they claim religious persecution. This provision is valid for people who entered India before December 31, 2014. (With inputs from HTC in regional bureaus and agencies) Read the full article

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The men and women behind Jagan Mohan Reddy’s long road to victory

Prashant Kishor and I-PAC are only new entrants to a small but close-knit group of family and friends that are part of the YSRCP chief’s inner circle.

Andhra Pradesh News: Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, the man of the moment in Andhra Pradesh, has witnessed a decade-long meteoric rise in politics. As he gears up to take over as the second Chief Minister of the bifurcated state of Andhra Pradesh, the focus is on the 46-year-old who proved his political acumen by defeating the experienced 69-year-old Chandrababu Naidu.

However, as Jagan is set to take oath, it is important to name those who worked along with him for his success. The most recent being election strategist Prashant Kishor, who was roped in by the YSRCP in 2017 to help defeat Naidu’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

It was Prashant Kishore and his team who ensured that Jagan managed to turn his image around and always be a step ahead of the TDP; whether it was campaigning on the ground, online campaigns, cadre strength or boosting the morale of party workers.

However, Prashant and I-PAC are only new entrants to a small but close-knit group of family and friends that are part of the YSRCP chief’s inner circle.

The first being K Nagireddy, or KNR, Jagan’s Personal Assistant, often referred to as the YSRCP leader’s shadow. A former journalist and trusted confidant for over a decade, KNR is known to handle almost everything related to Jagan from his personal commitments to his media interactions and… continue reading full story

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WHO IS THE NEXT CM OF AP IN 2019

Well, according to many surveys and general public opinion, it is the current Chief-Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Hon'ble Nara Chandra Babu Naidu rising to power once again, and he will flick his enemies like a bug on forearm on his way to the prestigious chair.

His enemies,

YS Jagan: the so-called Jagananna, the son of a factionist, the grandson of another great factionist, circled around courts and jails to cover up his, his father’s and his grandfather’s illegally procured property. There is an excellent story behind then chief minister, Dr. Y S Rajashekhar Reddy's death. The "factionist's" arrogance couldn't be contained inside when he won the second term chief minister of undivided Andhra. A power dispute with Sonia Gandhi and Ambani resulted in his getting into a chopper with a retired pilot, who was about to die from an advanced stage cancer. The chopper was carefully crashed in a strategic place where it was difficult to summon immediate help: the mighty Nallamalla forest. It took two days and military and media and volunteers to find the missing Chief Minister body hanging on a branch inside the dense forest.

The black box audio was never released. While a typical passenger flight takes hours of safety check-up before it runs on the runway, what could've possibly gone wrong in a VVVIP's chopper? Why did a retired pilot who was about to die to receive the job? Was there nobody else? How did pilot's incompetent sons end up big in reliance industries just after their father's death? Why didn't the helicopter crash near highways or populous places? Why did the chopper lose contact with Air traffic control?

People believe it was a murder. The then CM was murdered just like his father: The fearsome Rajireddy. A legend goes, when YSR was studying MBBS in Karnataka, a local student gang beat him bad. When the father got to know, he sent his loyal goons to kill them. It's not uncommon in their home to kill people on a whim. They must kill to survive, they must kill for pride. And like every factionist, the mighty Rajireddy also lost his life to someone else's revenge. The point is to point out the factionist genes and upbringing that now govern Jagan's behaviour. He openly stated in a public addressing that it is okay to burn Chandra Babu Naidu in the middle of a street. Another time, a local goon made his way through the security and pushed his sword into Jagan's body. You see, Birds of a "factionist" feather, flock together.

It is very easy for him to pair up with Modi, trace the perpetrators behind his father’s death and let his "factionistic" juices flow out once he gets to power. People who grew up like him, amidst violence, revenge and stupidity, love his words and ideals. They are the people who vote for him and fortunately, they don't make the majority. The majority of the state is soft-hearted and educated.

It's no wonder mighty people get connected with more mighty people. Master strategist Mr Prashant kishor is the campaign runner for Jagan, and PK loves to follow the textbook. Jagan’s "Navarathnalu" concept was copied from Nitish's "7 Resolves" campaign in Bihar elections. Door to door campaigning similar to Punjab, Bihar and Tanzania. Jagan's sessions with ground level voters similar to Amarinder's Coffee with Captain, Modi's Chai pe charcha and Rahul Gandhi's Khaat pe charcha. They couldn't find a nice Telugu translation of those slogans so it's just happening without a name. You want to know what Jagan's next campaigning move? Just look at IPac's previous work on their official website. IPac should've been contesting for the CM of Andhra Pradesh.Some of YSR’s policies, Arogyasree, Rs.2 per kilo rice and Indiramma homes deserve a honorary mention. 108 service was the best of its time and is now adopted by 15 different states across the country.

The second enemy, the most charming contestant for Chief minister, the youth icon Mr Pawan Kalyan. His brotherly bonding with Chiranjeevi is no less than Ram-Lakshman's. Chiranjeevi stepped in films and so did his brother. Chiranjeevi conceived a party to change the fate of the state and so did his brother. Chiranjeevi earned a lot of cash and the little brother is right where the big brother was. Chiranjeevi got tired after a while and so will be the brother. These movie stars have grown too comfortable in their lavishness and it's not unusual when little brother to looks up to big brother for guidance in life. If Pawan Kalyan was so concerned with changing the state's fate, why did this concern or ambition never reflect in his movies? Why do all his movies revolve around young, pretty and fertile delicacies? Cash making right?

Now we talk about our current chief minister Mr Chandra Babu Naidu, I'll only finish with only one quality of his. He was backstabbed by a very powerful person, Mr Narendra Modi, as the prime minister's political motives changed in the course of 4 years. It takes guts and experience to stand against giants while also holding a little, under-developed baby called 'the bifurcated AndhraPradesh.' And he did his job fine. He restored the infant's self-esteem, lift up its morale and set it on a path to healthy development and happiness. It is better to entrust a new-born state to a person with "political" Curriculum Vitae instead of a factionist who might be carrying a factionist family legacy of untimely death or a Pop-actor who's most of the adult life was concerned with sleeping around pretty women.

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via Today Bharat nbsp; The incident came to light after Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao's help was sought to secure an emergency visa for the deceased Prashanth Kommireddyrsquo;s brother. nbsp; For Divya Komireddy, a resident of Dallas, Texas in the US, Wednesday was supposed to be a day of celebration. It was her birthday and she was close to delivering her second child with her husband, Prashanth Kommireddy. However, the day turned to tragedy after 38-year-old Prashanth, a native of Hyderabad, died after suffering from a stroke. Prashant, who worked for American Airlines, was in a meeting room of his office when he complained of neck pain. Though he was rushed to the hospital, he succumbed the same day. The very next day, Divya was also taken to a hospital to give birth to a baby girl. Ramesh Reddy, Orlando regional coordinator of the American Telugu Association, told The Times of India, that Divya underwent a C-section and delivered a baby girl. Divya and Prashanth have a three-year-old daughter as well. According to Telangana Today, Prashanth suffered from vertigo and was reportedly on medication. Meanwhile, donations are being raised for Prashanth's family on the fundraising website GoFundMe gofundme. So far, the campaign has raised over $380,000. The incident came to light after Prashanth's friend, Santosh Kumar, a resident of Gajwel, approached Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao's (KTR) for help through Twitter, asking him to intervene and help Prashanth's brother, Pramod secure an emergency visa. ldquo;Sir, This is NC Santosh from Gajwel, my friend Prashanth k has expired in Dallas@US few hours back due to heart stroke. His wife is expecting a baby tomorrow. My friend's brother us at US embassy in begumpet trying for Visa need your intervention to expedite the process.rdquo; (sic) nbsp; KTR✔@KTRTRSCan you please intervene amp; help as this appears to be a family emergency @USAndHyderabad @USAmbIndia https://twitter.com/ncsantoshk/status/1230441969735761921 hellip; santosh kumar@ncsantoshk@KTRTRS Sir, This is NC Santosh from Gajwel, my friend Prashanth k has expired in Dallas@US few hours back due to heart stroke. His wife is expecting a baby tommorow. My friend's brother us at US embassy in begumpet trying for Visa need your intervention to expedite the process. 1,3058:38 PM - Feb 20, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy191 people are talking about thisFollowing this, KTR contacted the US general consulate in Hyderabad and US Ambassador to India Ken Juster, to expedite the visa process. "Can you please intervene amp; help as this appears to be a family emergency @USAndHyderabad @USAmbIndia" Pramodrsquo;s visa was approved on Friday immediately after KTRrsquo;s intervention. nbsp;

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Vivek Anand Oberoi in a still from PM Narendra Modi

This week’s new Bollywood release, director Omung Kumar B’s PM Narendra Modi, is not a biography. It is an unwittingly farcical, comical hagiography of Narendra Modi and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), and even that is a euphemistic description. To put it simply, this is a highly fictionalised account of the present Indian prime minister’s life.

Omung Kumar’s recall value so far has come from the vastly superior Priyanka Chopra-starrer Mary Kom (2014) and the embarrassingly bad Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Sarbjit (2016). PM Narendra Modi falls into the so-bad-it-could-be-fun category, except that it is not fun at all – it is, instead, an insult to viewer intelligence and viewer knowledge. "Modi ek insaan nahin, ek soch hai (Modi is not a person, Modi is a way of thinking/a concept),” says the protagonist himself at one point. Aur Modi ke baare mein soch badalne ke liye, to change the thinking about Modi, the screenplay – co-written by Anirudh Chawla and the leading man, Vivek Anand Oberoi – runs facts through a carefully chosen sieve and presents a new, rewritten history so far removed from recorded reality, that it bears little resemblance to the actual Modi. In that sense, PM Narendra Modi reminded me of a scene in last year’s Malayalam feature Kammara Sambhavam, in which the hero watches a PR film about his life and does not recognise himself on screen. Things that did not happen in Modi’s life are in this film shown to have happened: he is shown being arrested during the Emergency, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is shown praising him to the press during the 2002 riots, in the run-up to the 2014 election Modi is shown volunteering to do a live interview with a hostile TV journalist before an audience and acing it. In the face of such liberties with facts involving major historical events, all PM Narendra Modi’s other follies and flaws – the word “grateful” being spelt as “greatful” in the opening acknowledgements, the lazy caricature of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Modi’s corrupt government colleague in Gujarat, the false suggestion that Modi never married, other monumental exaggerations and misrepresentations in the screenplay, Hitesh Modak’s overbearing background score and the overall tackiness of the narrative – pale into insignificance. It is worth mentioning here that the aforementioned hostile journalist is a stooge of a corrupt industrialist called Aditya Reddy, played by Prashant Narayanan. Three enemies are very clearly marked out by PM Narendra Modi: Pakistan, the news media and, through the medium of the Reddy character, the dark-skinned self-serving south Indian. On Vivek Oberoi’s shoulders falls the task of playing this larger-than-life version of Modi, determined to vanquish all three. Most of Oberoi’s co-stars are comparatively irrelevant because their roles are dwarfed by his, but despite being dealt the same hand, their performances are a mixed bag. Manoj Joshi looks oddly wimpish as Amit Shah (the BJP chief’s full name is muted out in the film for some reason), but Boman Irani brings some dignity to the role of Ratan Tata as does Zarina Wahab playing Modi’s mother. In an ocean of mediocrity, Anjan Shrivastav does a reasonably good take on Vajpayee without resorting to gimmicky mimicry. As for Oberoi, well, in the actor who hams his way through this role, there is no trace of the young debutant who showed such spark under Ram Gopal Varma’s guidance in 2002’s Company. It is sad to watch an artist lose his touch. For those of us who saw something in him in Company, the only consolation is that his turn as Modi is less cringe-worthy than his performance as a horny young chap in Masti (2004), Grand Masti (2013) and Great Grand Masti (2016). If you think about it, despite the apparent contrast between them, the Masti trilogy and PM Narendra Modi both offer conventionally accepted definitions of masculinity. The Mastis used slapstick comedy as a vehicle to present us with men driven by their nether regions and their hormones as men naturally would be, or so we are given to understand. In PM Narendra Modi, the hero espouses an earnest, asexual, aggressive machoism, initially speaking of wanting to renounce the world and follow the path taken by Lord Buddha, and in the climatic moments ascribing his decisiveness – as the real life Narendra Modi has done – to a 56-inch chest. You see, his political journey is not a consequence of personal ambition, it is the answer to the public’s prayerful longing for “ek sachcha mard (a real man)” to lead them, to quote the words of a character early in the film.

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With Mammoth Jagan Reddy Win, Prashant Kishor Is Back In Business

With Mammoth Jagan Reddy Win, Prashant Kishor Is Back In Business

Prashant Kishor was photographed with Jagan Mohan Reddy after his massive victory in Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi: 

Prashant Kishor, political strategist par excellence and a veteran of many elections by now, scored another sleeper hit today with YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy’s sweep in Andhra Pradesh, where the incumbent Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s party has been voted out of power.

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Senior woman journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken critic of Hindutva politics, was shot dead here on Tuesday, police said.

Karnataka police chief RK Dutta said Lankesh was shot dead by unidentified assailants at the entrance of her residence in Raj Rajeshwari Nagar.

Lankesh, in her 50s, edited a Kannada tabloid ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike’ besides owning some other publications.

Dutta said Lankesh had not voiced apprehension about any threat to her life during a couple of meetings he had with her.

Asked about who could be the possible suspects in the killing, the officer refused to hazard any guess, saying “let the investigation proceed first.”

Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy condemned the incident, calling it unfortunate.

Lankesh was convicted in a defamation case filed by BJP MP Prahlad Joshi over a report published in her tabloid against some saffron party leaders.

Several people in media and public life took to twitter to express shock at Lankesh’s killing.

“As a friend, colleague & admirer for decades shocked & shattered to hear of the murder of Gauri Lankesh, one of India’s gutsiest journalists,” said Vir Sanghvi, an eminent media personality.

“If it is BJP ruled state, Liberals would have cried for emergency, Intolerance, Fascism,” tweeted National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah.

Lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan tweeted: “Shocking & tragic! Brave journalist Gauri Lankesh who exposed the BJP has been shot dead in her home in Bangalore!”