KCR attacks 'black listed' TV Channels
Warangal, Sept 9: Some journalists belonging to a black-listed Telugu TV channel staged a silent protest sporting black badges and holding aloft some placards saying ''Don't Kill the Media' when chief minister K Chandrsekhar Rao was garlanding the statue of Kaloji Narayana Rao and later when he was addressing the gathering at NIT auditorium in Warangal on Tuesday.
Strongly reacting to the protests, Rao accused the two Telugu news channels (TV9 and ABN-Andhra Jyoti) of hurting the self-respect of the people of Telangana through certain objectionable telecasts and added that such pro-Andhra and anti-Telangana channels would/should not be allowed to function in the state.
He, however, clarified that the government had not banned these channels and that it was the cable operators' association which decided not to beam the programmes of the two channels. He, however, hailed the cable operators' decision as good and correct.
Govt to work in right earnest from Dasara
Admitting that his government had not done anything worthwhile in the first 100 days in office, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said here on Tuesday that it had not begun implementing the developmental plans and welfare schemes in the state in right earnest yet and would do so from the auspicious day of Dasara.
Speaking at a Kaloji birth centenary function, he said he was not in a hurry to implement the schemes which needed to be studied thoroughly to ensure their foolproof execution. He asked PCC president Ponnala Laxmaiah what his party had done for the people of Telangana region
SNUB TO DEPUTY CM: At one of the functions, the chief minister told his deputy T Rajaiah not to make impossible-to-implement promises and advised him to think twice before announcing sops. Rao made the remark while referring to Rajaiah's promise to set up a health university in Warangal.
News Posted: 10 September, 2014
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