This Week Andhra Pradesh: Boomerang effect

Leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti found themselves victims of their own movement this week.

Boomerang effect

Leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti found themselves victims of their own movement this week. Arrested for disrupting rail services,TRS and Telangana Congress leaders found there was no one to prepare their bail applications as lawyers too were on strike. Actor-turned-politician M Vijaya Shanti spent a night at a police station as she could not apply for bail on time. TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Raos son K T Rama Rao,his daughter K Kavita,and Congress MPs G Vivekananda,K Keshava Rao,and others spent several hours either at police stations or at Chanchalguda Jail. By the time they were granted bail Sunday,all the leaders had sullen faces. They did not stop trains again. The 72-hour long rail roko was called off after 48 hours.

No-go zone for leaders

Telangana has become a no-go zone for leaders including the chief minister and his colleagues,for fear of attacks by protesters. Only Hyderabad remains safe for the 15 ministers from the region. Neither the CM nor state Congress president B Satyanarayana visited Banswada to campaign for the recent bypoll,won by the TRS. Ministers can visit their constituencies only when they lead an agitation. Even in Hyderabad,Labour Minister Danam Nagender had eggs thrown at his car when he was on his way to a hospitals inaguration. A supporter of statehood himself,the minister promptly got out of the car,snatched a baton from a constable and ran after the throwers.

Jagan hits back at Naidu

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It is a season of filing affidavits,petitions and counter-cases. Y S Jaganmohan is reportedly preparing to file a petition in the High Court seeking a probe into the illegal assets of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu. Earlier,it was a petition by TDP leaders that led to the court ordering a CBI probe into Jaganmohans assets. Jaganmohan is frequently targeted by TDP leaders also for abusing the office of his father,former CM YSR Reddy,to further his business interests. Jaganmohans office refused to divulge details but the petition reportedly raises questions about investments in Naidus firm Heritage Foods,his son Lokeshs education abroad,and Naidus Hyderabad assets.

Sold! Hair for Rs 133 cr

The rich Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams that manages the Lord Balaji temple,Tirumala,got richer by Rs 133 crore by auctioning human hair offered by devotees. With e-auctioning introduced for the first time to keep the process transparent,the exercise saw 49 bidders from across the nation buying 4.65 lakh kg of various types of hair,and paying a total amount 27 per cent higher than that in the last auction. Lakhs of devotees offer their hair at the temple every year and this is sorted out into various types. Long hair fetches the highest price,Rs 12,000 a kg,and is in demand from wig-making firms.

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