Follow us on: RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 CELEB TALKS 10 SPORTS 12 Published From VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL MUCH ADO PRIYANKA CHOPRA, RAJKUMMAR RAO TO STAR 100 & RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR ABOUT SURPLUS IN NETFLIX ADAPTATION OF ‘THE WHITE TIGER' COUNTING RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *Late City Vol. 1 Issue 310 VIJAYAWADA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2019; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable AJAY BHUPATHI CALLS OFF MAHASAMUDRAM WITH RAVI TEJA { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com Govt cancels Polavaram Noose tightening around power project 52K RTC STAFF TO BE contract ‘corrupt’ TDP leaders VIJAYAWADA: The Cabinet G RAVI KIRAN on Wednesday cancelled the ABSORBED INTO GOVT n VIJAYAWADA l Cases were Rs 3,216.11 crore worth PNS n VIJAYAWADA liabilities between AP and filed against Polavaram Hydel Power Telangana also did not happen The cases filed against TDP Chintamaneni Project contract and called The Cabinet on Wednesday yet as per the AP Reorganisation leaders are troubling the party Prabhakar, for new tenders in the reverse decided to create a new Public Act, 2014. These factors became a lot. The leaders, who have tendering process. Chief Transport Department to absorb the stumbling blocks in the managed to evade arrest during Kuna Ravi Minister YS Jaganmohan over 52,000 employees of the merger of APSRTC with the the TDP tenure, are now find- Kumar, Reddy chaired the meeting loss-making Andhra Pradesh government, highly placed offi- ing it difficult with the govern- Yarapathineni that decided to cancel the State Road Transport cial sources pointed out. ment keen on taking the cases Srinivasa Rao, contract given to Navayuga Corporation into the govern- Even the Anjaneya Reddy to the logical end. Noose is Kodela Engineering Company ment as the proposed in toto Committee was said to have tightening around TDP leaders Limited by the earlier TDP merger of the public transport suggested absorption of the Chintamaneni Prabhakar, Kuna Sivaprasada government. It also decided carrier was found not possible. employees to ease the financial Ravi Kumar and Yarapathineni Rao and to recover the advance The Cabinet, which met here burden on the public trans- Srinivasa Rao. Already, former Somireddy amount given to Navayuga. under the chairmanship of the porter. The Cabinet deliberated Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Chandramohan This is the second major Chief Minister, accepted the on these issues and gave its nod Rao is in legal trouble. Besides, contract lost by Navayuga. recommendations of the com- for the creation of the Public cases were registered against for- Reddy The government had in mittee headed by former IPS Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy addressing a Cabinet meeting in Amaravati Transport Department to enable mer minister Somireddy l TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu said, "The government is filing August terminated the con- officer C Anjaneya Reddy on on Wednesday the absorption first, in tune Chandramohan Reddy and a tract for works relating to the RTC, Minister for Transport with the electoral promise. few other TDP leaders recent- cases against our leaders deliberately to harass them. It is using the Polavaram irrigation project and Information Perni Venkata the government and on assum- According to sources, the APSRTC would henceforth ly. During the TDP government, police to arrest our leaders and send them to jail to spoil their worth around Rs 3,000 crore. Ramaiah (Nani) said. ing power, he constituted an Centre's concurrence was remain a skeletal organisation and many allegations were made political career" Continued on Page 3 Accordingly, the RTC staff expert committee headed by required for the merger as it held the staff absorbed into the gov- against TDP ministers and would be absorbed into the Anjaneya Reddy, who had ear- a 31 per cent stake in the state ernment would be re-deployed MLAs, but party Chief and the Public Transport Department lier served as the corporation's transport body. Besides, the on deputation to run the corpo- then Chief Minister N Now, a fresh case was regis- ernment to seek CBI inquiry and re-designated. The entire managing director. division of APSRTC's assets and ration, a senior official said. Chandrababu Naidu had shield- tered against Chintamaneni into his illegal mining activities. 19 die in process would be completed in ed them. The police had not Prabhakar under Section 509 of As he was involved in econom- three months, the minister told dared proceed against them. the SC, ST (Prevention of ic offences and civil disputes, an Punjab reporters at the end of the Cabinet demands Centre to retain name of Andhra Bank After YSRCP assumed power, Atrocities) Act. The police are arrest warrant is not yet issued. Cabinet meeting. Following the people, who lodged complaints learnt to have been trying to Meanwhile, a case was regis- firecracker move, the government would he Cabinet on Wednesday demanded that the Centre retain the name of Andhra Bank in the wake of against these leaders, filed fresh arrest him, but he is on the run. tered against former minister foot the salary and pension bill Tthe move to merge it with Union Bank of India and Corporation Bank. The Cabinet passed a resolution complaints against them, based Koona Ravi Kumar, former Somireddy Chandramohan of RTC staff, amounting to Rs in this regard as ministers denounced the move to erase Andhra Banks name through the merger. "We on which the police registered MLA from Amudalavalasa con- Reddy in Nellore recently. He factory fire 3,300 crore per annum. passed a resolution that Andhra Banks name be retained even if the bank is amalgamated with other cases against them. stituency is also at large for the allegedly sold a property, sub- CHANDIGARH: At least 19 Retirement age of the staff would banks. The Chief Minister is writing to the Prime Minister on this," Information Minister Perni Venkata Many cases are pending last one week. He has been mitting a fake document. This people were killed and 27 be raised to 60 years. The Ramaiah told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. All parties in the State have decried the Centre's plan to against former MLA from charged with abusing a woman case is also under trial. injured in a blaze in a fire- Cabinet also approved a pro- merge Andhra Bank with other banks, saying the bank reflected the sentiments of Telugu people. While Denduluru Chintamaneni VRO in public. The VRO filed TDP Chief N Chandrababu cracker factory at Batala town posal for creation of Bus Fare the ruling YSR Congress Party was the first to demand that Andhra Banks name be retained, the Prabhakar. The most important a complaint and a case was reg- Naidu said, "The government is in Gurdaspur district of Regulatory Authority that would Congress and the Telugu Desam Party joined the chorus. The Left parties staged protests deploring among them are related to istered against him. filing cases against our leaders Punjab on Wednesday. fix the RTC bus fares, Nani merger move. They demanded that Andhra Banks name be retained if the merger became inevitable. attack on woman tahsildar Already, Gurazala former deliberately to harass them. It is The exact reason for the added. During the election cam- In the historic coastal town of Machilipatnam, where Andhra Bank took birth on November 23, 1923, the Vanajakshi and manhandling of MLA Yarapathineni Srinivasa using the police to arrest our fire is yet to be ascertained. paign, Jagan had promised to bank staff too joined the protests against the merger. a Hamali Workers' Union leader Rao is in big trouble. The High leaders and send them to jail to The Punjab government has merge the ailing APSRTC with Johnny. Court also left it to the State gov- spoil their political career." ordered a magisterial inquiry into it. An explosion took place around 4 p.m. in the Gram panchayat factory that was being run in VIP darshan bookings Tamilisai to a three-storey building in offices to don the residential area. The take oath as No place for work! impact of the blast was so powerful that a few nearby at Tirumala to go online PNS n HYDERABAD TDP and offered even more cash YSRCP colour buildings and parked vehicles Guv on Sept 8 doles in the name of PNS n VIJAYAWADA were also damaged. Teams of PNS n TIRUPATI HYDERABAD: The new gov- Free power, doles, subsidies, "Navaratnalu" schemes, the the NDRF and the SDRF ernor of Telangana, Tamilisai direct benefit transfers and the prime being Rythu Bharosa, Gram panchayat offices in have been deployed. The Tirumala Tirupati and former union minister like are not specific to India Amma Vodi etc. Not unexpect- the State will now don a new Devastanams (TTD) has taken Bandaru Dattatreya, who was where wily politicians, con- edly, Telangana's cash dole out look as the buildings will be up cudgels against unautho- appointed as the governor of cerned with just their term in model was adopted in other painted in the colours of the rised bookings for darshan Himachal Pradesh, will take power, use taxpayer money to states as well such as Odisha, ruling YSRCP and also display Tribal teen and sale of darshan tickets in their oath on September 8 and woo those sections which may Bihar, West Bengal etc. Back in a picture of Chief Minister YS black. In the backdrop of High 11 respectively. Telangana not give value in return. Even in the early eighties, the NTR gov- Jaganmohan Reddy. stripped for Court judgment on L1, L2 and High Court chief justice RS an advanced country like the US, ernment in the undivided The offices of Village L3 darshans, the TTD has Chauhan will administer the the trend is to look at various sec- Andhra Pradesh offering free Secretariats as the gram pan- proposed an online process for oath of office to Tamilisai at 11 tions of people as vote banks power to farmers.