Thus the election in Dubbak is likely to expose the strengths and weaknesses of the incumbent government and has become an issue of prestige for three parties: the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The national elections in 2019 saw the rise of BJP in the state with four Lok Sabha seats. She says that more such programmes would be organised in Siddipet and Karimnagar districts soon. Each political party is dominated by upper caste shows that the BCs are divided in their loyalty to different parties. Eyeing power by 2024, BJP shifts gears in Telangana, AP In a statement here on Friday they said that there were 75 to 80 lakh Munnuru Kapus in the State and they were growing politically and economically because of the support of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, but the BJP government was trying to tarnish their image. Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao. Kiran Kumar Reddy was much junior and a mere low profile leader from Rayalaseema who was made the CM and this was a huge insult to the Senior BC leaders . This was a huge disappointment for Munnuru Kapus for decades. Ramanthapur: Telangana Munnuru Kapu Maha Sabha state president Sardar Puttam Purusotham has called upon the community members to follow social trends and to get strong financially, politically and socially. After district-level conventions, she plans to organise them at the State-level with 30,000 women in Hyderabad. Director North Indians house wives hot shorts on Youtube has became a new trend since lockdown. Aravind, known for his communal remarks, to threaten religious minorities, as Aravind recently did by reminding C.P. Landlords, who in the 1980s abandoned their farm lands and migrated to urban areas fearing Naxal attacks with the help of Rythu Bandhu, another one of KCRs flagship welfare schemes. Revanth Reddy, as the new chieftain of the state Congress party, is picking holes in KCRs false promise of Dalit welfare. Reddy is known for his proximity to Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Vinod happens to be a close relative of both KCR and Vidyasagar Rao. 1.Punjal shivashanker 2.Kancherla keshavarao 3.Uthpal Hanumantharau 4.K.Ashanna 5.Alladi Rajkumar MLAs 1.Darmapuri Srinivas 2.Endala Laximi Narayana 3.Jogu Ramanna 4.Dasyam Vinay Bhasker 5.Ponnala Laximaiah 6.Konda sureka 7.Dhanam Nagenader 8.Somavarapu satyanarayana 9.Bajireddy Govardhan 8 members elected from this community to the Assembly. 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Telangana: Post-bypoll win, BJP tries out caste math for 2023 Both Aravind and Sanjay are popularly known as Munnuru Kapu Hindu Tigers. The much criticised handling of the COVID-19 crisis by the K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) government that has dented his image as the Telangana Bahubali and the chinks that surfaced in the armour of the Congress-led government in Rajasthan seem to be giving rise to the BJPs hopes to fill the vacuum in the state. Dharmapuri srinivas from Nizamabad was stalwart Leader in Congress party and he has the record of bringing Congress party to the power twice during 2004-2009 as Congress party president. Rajendar is now the BJP candidate in the by-election for Huzurabad, the seat which became vacant after his resignation. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. Sanjay used this opporunity carefully and won the MP seat from Karimnagar by defeating the strong Velama ( OC ) Candidate ( Relative of KCR ) . NIZAMABAD: Withthe BJP leadership focusing on the Munnuru Kapu community to strengthen the party in the State, former TRS MLC and Telangana State Womens Finance Corporation (TSWFC) chairperson Akula Lalitha has, in her personal capacity, started organising conventions for Munnuru Kapu women for their political and economic upliftment. The government stated that if the Munnuru Kapu people migrate to other places in Andhra Pradesh, they can obtain Munnuru Kapu caste certificates on the production of proof that they belong to the seven merged mandals. Earlier, Revanth also visited Mudichintalapalli, another one of KCRs adopted villages, in Karimnagar district to present the plight of Dalits as a classic case of how KCR failed to fulfil his promise of housing for the community. He is a Member of Legislative Council from Nalgonda. So after the demise of Y.S.RajaSekhar Reddy , Sonia Gandhi chose Rosaiah and Kiran Kumar Reddy ( both OC caste leaders from Andhra ) ignoring the BC leader of Telangana. The current Telangana BJP president is one of the very few leaders chosen from outside Hyderabad to head the state wing of the party after M Venkaiah Naidu, current Vice President of India,. However, the Munnuru Kapus were not able to play the top roles in any of the political parties nor they were able to get hold on the top chair. Sanjay has been facing hostile seniors since his elevation as party head. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. Citing the NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data, he alleged that the KCR government has miserably failed to check the growing atrocities on SCs and STs. Parvatham Venkateshwar phd thesis is also attached to this blog to help the readers understand about the culture and heritage of Munnurukapu caste. His vision and ideas for the community is great asset for us. List of Munnurukapu political Elite Legislatores MPs. Now the same region, with its matrix of caste, Hindutva and nation, is encountering the idea of a Hindu nation. But the BJP won four seats out of the states 17 Lok Sabha seats and the TRS ended up with only nine seats. Powered by He had successfully mobilised all caste groups, mainly the numerically strong OBCs and Dalits, under his leadership during the statehood movement. As OBC Groups Drift Away From KCR, Will His Attempts to Consolidate Dalit Votes Work? TRSs message also was: What Modi is to India, KCR is to Telangana and can also become to India. The 51-year-old took over the state party reins on the back of BJPs spectacular show in the 2019 general elections in Telangana. She is also the daughter of the TRS senior leader and Former Congress Veteran K.Keshava Rao. After his spectacular win in the high profile Huzurabad by-election against the ruling party candidate, Etela expected to be given a much bigger role in the party. the senior leader whose . LTD. All rights reserved. The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. The entry of the Kapus into the political process some years ago disturbed the Reddy-Kamma power bloc. Sanjay, belonging to the predominant Munnuru Kapu community from the Backward Classes (BC) community who defeated KCRs close aid Boyinapalli Vinod Kumar at the Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat in 2019, has been tasked with taking on the KCR government and countering the expansion of Asaduddin Owaisis All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) simultaneously. Clippings of his followers crying on the results announce date evening and the Teasing Attack of MIM party on Bandis house had made him state wide leader over the night. They are all entitled the Dalit Bandhu scheme, as per the KCRs promise. The importance of these blocs and their adjoining constituencies in Uttara Telangana is that they are predominantly represented by the Velama caste (landlords), which actually comprises less than 2% of Telanganas entire population. Sanjay, hailing from the numerically dominant OBC Munnuru Kapu community and a product of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), rose from a municipal councillor in Karimnagar town to become Lok Sabha MP and later the state party president. These meetings were addressed by prominent scheduled caste leaders and three BC Munnuru Kapu leaders, including state BJP president M.P. In endorsing the significance of the tehzeeb, neither the TRS nor the Congress has managed to take down the BJPs hardline stand and this failure gives space to BJP leaders like M.P. Though Telangana is not poll-bound in the near future, the BJP is upping the ante and hopes to edge out the Congress, journalist Gali Nagaraja writes. Copyrights 2022 TELANGANA PUBLICATIONS PVT. Joel Davis of his Christian identity and warning him: This is a Hindu rasthram (nation), remember that..