Month: August 2005

With the Naxal issue back in the news and the peace process between the Maoist rebels and the Andhra Pradesh government having failed, here’s a look at one of the most enigmatic figures of the ultra-red bastion, the folk singer Gaddar.  Gummadi Vittal Rao is 56 years old, has acted in two movies, and carries […]

Outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has slammed the ban imposed on it by the Andhra Pradesh government and accused Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy of converting AP into a police state. In the first reaction to the ban clamped on it and 7 frontal organizations on August 17, Maoist AP state committee secretary Ramakrishna charged Reddy on […]

Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday stayed the formation of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on various grounds. This decision came in response to a writ petition filed by a Hyderabad member of Parliament and others alleging that the decision was illegal and unconstitutional. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice G […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the naxalites to adopt democratic means and fight elections to gain power. “The government was willing to have a dialogue with them, but it would not tolerate extremist violence at any cost,” he said. Dr Singh came on a half-day’s visit to Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, just four days after the […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the naxalites to adopt democratic means and fight elections to gain power. “The government was willing to have a dialogue with them, but it would not tolerate extremist violence at any cost,” he said. Dr Singh came on a half-day’s visit to Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, just four days after the […]

The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission on Saturday issued notices to the state director-general of police and the Hyderabad city police commissioner on the arrest of Revolutionary Writers Association functionaries and former Maoist emissaries Varavara Rao and G Kalyan Rao in Hyderabad. At a special sitting, the Commission took ‘suo motu cognisance of the […]

In a crackdown on members of the Revolutionary Writers Association (Viplava Rachiyatala Sangham-Virasam), which has been banned alongwith the Communist Party of India(Maoist) and six other frontal organizations, Andhra Pradesh police arrested former Maoist emissary and prominent revolutionary writer Varavara Rao from his residence in Malakpet area in Hyderabad early Friday morning. AP govt reimposes […]

The Centre on Wednesday gave the go ahead to Andhra Pradesh government to re-impose the ban on Maoists in the state in the wake of escalating Naxalite violence. According to sources, Union Home Minister Shivraj V Patil conveyed the Centre’s green signal to the state in a telephonic conversation with Chief Minister Dr Y S […]

It was supposed to be an emergency trip that never materialised but, nevertheless, it caused a flurry of activity in Hyderabad on Tuesday afternoon. The state administration swung into action when  word came from New Delhi that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who set out for an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of Karnataka, would be making […]

The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has authorised Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy to take the decision on reimposing the ban on the Communist Party of India-Maoist in the wake of escalating violence and killings by this left-wing extremist outfit. Briefing newsmen after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening, Information Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir said […]