Tuesday 24 April 2012

AP By-Elections Schedule

                                                                              
By-polls to the eighteen constituencies to be announced shortly, says the Election Commission Principal Secretary, Banwarilal. The   Officer made this announcement today in the Srikakulam District while checking on the local election commission machinery. He also added that the areas that are scheduled for the by-polls are all well equipped to handle the elections. He also added that the necessary voter list is getting ready at the various constituencies. Orders to this effect have already been instructed to the concerned said Mr Banwarilal.
By-Elections Schedule is Released today for the 18 Assembly constituencies and one parliament constituency in Andhra Pradesh.

The following dates are declared as per the schedule

Notification Release: May 18
Polling date: June 12
Results declaration: June 15

The by-polls for the 18 constituencies seemed to be fast nearing initially there were wide speculations that the by-polls could be postponed. But today’s announcement by the Mr Banwarilal suggests that the polls are not far off. Another reason that supports is the sudden visit of a central observer in the form of Union Minister Vayalar Ravi. The Minister has been extensively meeting since morning various leaders of the Congress. The reasons aor results of the meeting are yet to be known to the media, as of now.

YSRCP will merge with Congress, says K.A. Paul


                                                                             
Prajasanthi Party president and evangelist K.A. Paul on Monday opined that the YSR Congress Party would go the Praja Rajyam Party way sooner or later.
He told a press conference here that PRP founder K. Chiranjeevi had ‘orphaned' lakhs of his followers who had reposed faith in him, by merging his outfit with the Congress to which he had projected the PRP as an alternative. In the same way, YSRCP president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy would eventually merge his party with the ruling Congress.
Referring to the next round of by-elections, he said his party had so far shortlisted candidates for Ongole, Prathipadu, Narsapur, Ramachandram, and Payakaraopet seats. The candidates would be announced once the schedule was announced.
“If the notification is issued to hold the bypolls in June, we will have time to put up candidates only for these five seats. If the bypolls are held in August, candidates will be fielded for all seats.''
He projected his party, floated to bring together SCs, STs, BCs, and minorities on to a common platform to achieve political power for themselves, as the ‘real alternative' to the ‘corrupt' ruling Congress and the opposition TDP. Focusing on the 2014 general election, his party would evolve programmes to strengthen it at the grassroots level and work for social justice for the oppressed sections.
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Nellore:Campaign begins in absence of TSR


                                                                                 
Friends, admirers, relatives and well-wishers of Congress nominee for Nellore MP Seat T. Subbarami Reddy (TSR) have already launched campaign and started tapping all their contacts in the district to seek their support for his candidature. Some of them are touring the villages coming under Nellore MP seat and holding closed door meetings with their contacts to ensure support for TSR.
State-level leaders of various unions including railway and RTC unions are also contacting their union leaders in Nellore and asking them to back TSR. The campaign managers of his electioneering will be arriving from Visakhapatnam with in a couple of days and search is on for a big building to setup office for all election related activities.
According to sources close to TSR, he had already contacted all the people’s representatives of the ruling party in the district over phone and also contacting who is who of Nellore to seek their support. Mr TSR will hold meetings with writers, stage actors and cultural associations before launching his campaign.
“Mr TSR is likely to come to Nellore on May 4 and he will go on a whirlwind tour to all the six assembly segments in SPSR Nellore district and Kandukur segment in Prakasam district, which are part of Nellore Lok Sabha seat, for familiarisation with the topography and leaders at constituency level,” general secretary of TSR Kala Parishat Dodla Varada Reddy said.
Speaking to this newspaper from Visakhapatnam on Monday, he said that foundation stone will be laid for an air-conditioned auditorium being funded by TSR at Nellore on May 6. Similarly, foundation stones will be laid for two shelters at district headquarters hospital and Jubilee hospital in Nellore town for the benefit of the attendants of patients on the same day.
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Jagan, Vijay Sai falsified info: CBI


                                                                         
The Central Bureau of Investigation alleged that Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy and Mr Vijay Sai Reddy gave false and exaggerated information about the worth of Jagathi Publications to the company’s auditor Deloitte to get it to fix a high premium for the share value. This was for the purpose of receiving bribes for the favours extended through the office of the Chief Minister in the garb of investments in the company and also to attract investments from industrialists like Mr Dandamudi.
The second chargesheet filed by the CBI runs into 53 pages with 30 witnesses. All the three were charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, merchant, banker or agent) and 477 (falsification of accounts).
The first chargesheet against Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy and 12 others was regarding doling out land and SEZ plots to companies like Aurobindo, Hetero and Trident in exchange for their investments in Janani Infrastructure, another the company owned by Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. IAS officer B.P. Acharya, Hetero director M. Srinivas Reddy and Nityananda Reddy of Aurobindo were also chargedsheeted.
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CBI fixes Jagan, Jagathi, Vijay Sai


                                                                               
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday filed a second chargesheet in the assets’ case against YSR Congress leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. The first chargesheet against Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy was filed on March 31. In the second one, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, his auditor, Mr V. Vijay Sai Reddy and Jagati Publications Pvt Ltd (JPPL), owned by the YSR Congress leader, were charged under relevant sections of the IPC.
The second chargesheet revolved around the investments made in Jagathi Publications by industrialists A.K. Dandamudi, Madhav Ramachandran and others. It alleged that Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy and Mr Vijay Sai Reddy gave an exaggerated and falsified valuation report to get investments amounting to Rs 35 crore.
While submitting the chargesheet to the principal special judge for CBI cases A. Pullaiah and the CBI SP H. Venkatesh maintained that it is an additional chargesheet in the assets’ case of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy involving several individual conspiracies. The investment of Rs 35 crore by the two industrialists is part of the Rs 1,246-crore investment that came in though various means.
The CBI had earlier recorded the statements of Mr Dandamudi and Mr Ramachandran under Section 164 of the CrPC in a statement made before a magistrate. Mr Dandamudi had invested Rs 10 crore and Mr Ramachandran had invested Rs 19.6 crore in Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s company Jagathi Publications. They are now witnesses in the case, the CBI said.
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Jagan case: CBI drops 3 names in 2nd chargesheet


                                                                 
HYDERABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed a second chargesheet in the alleged illegal assets case of Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. The MP is named accused No 1 (A1) in the case, followed by V Vijay Sai Reddy and M/s Jagathi Publications owned by Jagan Mohan Reddy as A2 and A3, while the names of three persons who figured in the FIR were omitted in the chargesheet.
The CBI also filed a supplementary chargesheet in Emaar land scam naming three more persons as accused.
In the illegal assets case, the CBI had alleged that Jagan Mohan Reddy got several firms invest crores of rupees in his businesses on quid pro quo basis for the concessions they were extended when his father, the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, was the chief minister.
The CBI held Vijay Sai Reddy as the main conspirator in getting investments into Jagan Mohan Reddy’s companies.
However, the agency dropped the names of Kannan, Ramachandran and Dandamudi from the chargesheet. The three figured in the FIR registered by the CBI.
According to CBI, the trio invested Rs 34 crore in Jagathi Publications owned by Jagan Mohan Reddy, but did not get any favours. With the CBI not finding any role of the trio, their names did not figure in the chargesheet, CBI officials said.
The CBI also alleged that the share value of M/s Jagathi Publications has been inflated to attract investments.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, Vijay Sai Reddy and M/s Jagathi Publications were charged under various sections of IPC.
The CBI filed its first chargesheet in the case on March 31 against Jagan Mohan Reddy and 12 others, including Vijay Sai Reddy, accusing them of criminal conspiracy, cheating and falsification of documents among others.
When it filed the first chargesheet, the agency informed the court that it would be filing a series of chargesheets in the case.
Meanwhile, in the supplementary chargesheet filed in the Emaar land scam case, the CBI named three other accused, including N Sunil Reddy and G V Vijay Raghav, head of finance, Emaar MGF (South India).
Sunil Reddy and Vijay Raghav were arrested on January 24 and January 28 respectively. Sunil Reddy is a close aide of Jaganmohan Reddy.
Earlier, the CBI named suspended IAS officer B P Acharya as accused No 1 in the case.
The first chargesheet named 12 persons, apart from Acharya.
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