00:00 The former Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana, Thattigonda Rajaiah, got emotional and broke
00:04 down in front of his supporters in Jhangao. He wasn't given a ticket from his Ghanpur area for
00:10 the upcoming election, even though he is a current member of the Legislative Assembly from there.
00:15 The leader of Bharat Rashtra Samiti, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who is also the Chief Minister
00:19 of Telangana, decided to let another senior leader named Kadiyamma Srihari run from that area.
00:25 It's not just Thattigonda Rajaiah who was affected, 9 other MLAs from Bharat Rashtra Samiti were also
00:30 not given tickets from the upcoming elections in Telangana. The party said it will be running
00:35 in election on its own. Hello and welcome, you are watching HW News English, I am Saurabh George.
00:40 Certain constituencies like Ghanpur, Ghanpur, Both, Vemulavada, Vyar, Asifabad, Kurtla, Uppal,
00:48 and Kamareddy, new candidates are being chosen. Starting with Kovalakshmi, who lost in the
00:54 previous elections from Asifabad will run instead of Athram Sakku, who previously won as a Congress
00:59 candidate but later joined BRS along with 12 other Congress MLAs. Kovalakshmi won in 2014,
01:05 but lost in 2018. In Khanapur, Bukkia Johnson Rathod Nayak, who is close to the current
01:10 Cabinet Minister K.T. Rama Rao, will run instead of A. Rekha Nayak. In the Booth area, Anil Jadhav,
01:16 who is a member of the Niradi Gonda, Jala Praja Parishad territorial constituency,
01:21 will run instead of Bapu Rao Rathod, who was the sitting MLA. Rathod has not been attending BRS
01:27 meetings for a while and local leaders have complained about him to the CM. In Uppal,
01:33 Bandaru Lakshma Reddy will run instead of current MLA Bethi Subhash Reddy. Bontu Ram Mohan, a former
01:39 Mayor and close to KTR, didn't get a ticket. In Kurtla, the sitting MLA Kalvakuntala Vidyasagar
01:45 Rao requested a ticket for his son K. Sanjay Kumar and it was accepted. T. Rajaiah, who was
01:49 the sitting MLA of Station Ganpur, lost his position due to the acquisition of sexual harassment
01:55 and Kadiyamma Srihari was chosen instead. Ramesh Channanamannini, the sitting MLA from
02:00 Vemulavada, was replaced by Chalmeda Lakshmi Narsimha Rao. KCR explained that while Channamannini
02:06 was a good leader, concerns about his citizenship led to this change. L. Ramula Nayak, who won as
02:12 an independent candidate from the SC-reserved Vihara constituency and later joined BRS,
02:17 didn't get a ticket. Instead, Banut Madanlal will run. In Kama Reddy, Gampa Govardhan had
02:22 to leave his seat because KCR decided to run from there himself. KCR said reasons like allegations
02:28 against the sitting MLAs, their poor performance and MLAs requesting tickets for their family
02:34 members are the reason for these changes. Furthermore, the lack of significant representations
02:39 of women in the initial list of the Assembly election, candidates presented by the BRS party,
02:45 the ruling party in Telangana, has caused contentions among the various parties.
02:50 As soon as the list was revealed containing only 7 women out of a total of 115 candidates,
02:55 opposition parties swiftly highlighted the irony. K Kavita, a BRS MLC and the daughter of CM K
03:02 Chandrasekhar Rao, has previously staged a protest in Delhi demanding a 33% reservation of seats in
03:08 legislative assemblies for women. However, when her own party's candidates list featured a lower
03:14 number of women, she faced criticism from the BJP, Congress and YSRTP. Rani Rudrama, a spokesperson
03:22 from BJP commented that the fact that the BRS party neglected women in its list indicates that
03:27 Kavita's protest in Delhi for the 33% reservation for women in parliament by Mayor Theatrics.
03:33 Similarly, G Krishna Reddy, the Telangana BJP president, posted on the social media platform
03:39 X the drama created by Bangaru Kuttubam family members at Jantar Mantra demanding 33% reservation
03:45 for women in parliament. In Bangaru Kuttubam mathematics, this resulted in the BRS party
03:51 allocating only 6 out of 115 seats for women candidates. Women leaders from the Congress
03:56 held a press conference where they alleged that Kavita's actions at Jantar Mantra were
04:00 an attempt to divert attention from the involvement in the Delhi liquor scam in which she is named as
04:06 an accused. This conference was attended by Bandaru Shobha Rani, Palwai Sarvanti, Kalwa Sujata and
04:12 others. They stated that Congress is credited with introducing reservation for women in local bodies.
04:18 The party has appointed women to the positions of AICC President, Prime Minister, Lok Sabha Speaker
04:24 and President. We do not engage in false theatrics. Why has Sharmila, the president of YSRTP advised
04:30 Kavita to practice what you preach? She questioned whether the list which a mere 6% women candidates
04:36 truly reflected Kavita's commitment and honesty towards the 33% reservation for women. Sharmila
04:42 criticized Kavita's recent protest in Delhi stating that while women have half of the state's
04:47 population, fielding only 7 female candidates was an insult to them. Responding to these accusations,
04:54 Kavita launched a strong counterattack against the opposition. She replied to Krishna Reddy
04:59 expressing surprise at his newfound concern for women's rights and highlighting that the BJP
05:04 has failed to fulfil its manifesto promise by passing the women's reservation bill.
05:09 She also criticized the Congress for their initiative regarding the bill,
05:13 considering them insincere and merely symbolic gesture towards addressing women's
05:17 representation in politics. Defending the BRS candidate list, Kavita added that the
05:22 Chief Minister's perspective was that without a constitutional provision similar to the one
05:27 that currently exists for the local body elections, achieving women's reservation in state
05:31 legislature and parliament would be difficult. Now, on one hand, Kavita is talking about 33%
05:37 women representation in the state assembly whereas on the other hand, her own party has given 6 out
05:42 of 115 seats to women candidates. So, according to this, where is 33% women representation in the
05:49 BRS party? That's all on the news report. Stay tuned with HW News English. Thank you for joining us.
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