Hyderabadi first politician later
Cricketer-turned-politician Mohammed Azharuddin has an inherent charm and the typical sense of humour of a Hyderabadi. Coupled with the Hyderabadi slang, he can evoke quite a few laughs.
Former Congress member of Parliament from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh Azharuddin showed that he still retains the Hyderabadi sense of humour despite being away from the city for long spell.
While addressing a public meeting of the Congress Jana Chaitanya Yatra at Chevella, Azhar said that Kodangal MLA A. Revanth Reddy joined the right cricket team evoking instant laughter among the huge gathering.
Revanth Reddy, who joined the Congress leaving the TDP recently, was all smiles along with all the senior Congress leaders on the stage as the gathering reacted to Azhar’s statement with claps and whistles.
Red tape hits OMC
The appointment of Principals for Osmania Medical and Dental colleges ran into rough weather after the incumbents retired on attaining superannuation on February 28.
Before the retirement, the administration of the colleges sent files to the government listing out probable candidates for the posts based on their old horizontal and vertical seniority. In government departments, the seniority is notified at the beginning of each year and objections received before final notification. But, this did not happen in the case of the twin colleges this year due to a court case.
The government took a serious view of the flip flop and set aside the files.
It has posted in-charges for the posts, pending finalisation of permanent candidates.
Political underpinning of banking
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, at a recent meeting in Hyderabad, asked former RBI Governor Y.V. Reddy whom he spotted in the audience “not to throw a flying saucer” at him when he talked about banks. He had mentioned that the government must take a serious look at the managerial control of the public sector banks since he was sure what was declared by them as losses was at least “15 to 20%” lower than the reality.
Mr. Subramanian’s remarks were not out of place because Mr. Reddy told a separate gathering earlier that when the present day PSBs were nationalised the then government took the decision not on banking or finance parameters but out of “political” consideration.
Of politics and slips of tongue...
The language used in politics and its perception by other parties often ends up in controversies and slanging match. The words used by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing workers of Singareni Collieries at Mancherial the other day, has led to a chain-reaction of exchanges between the TRS and the BJP. It has even forced Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to rethink on her visit to Hyderabad for inaugurating the Tata-Boeing aerospace joint venture. Mr. Rao’s son and IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao was learnt to have explained to Ms. Sitharaman that the words could be the result of slip of tongue by his father. But, the Chief Minister maintained that he had gone through the video clipping of his speech and found nothing disrespectful in his reference to Mr. Modi. He, however, did not mince words in attacking both the BJP and Congress stating that the two parties had failed the country.
(R. Ravikanth Reddy, N. Rahul, V. Geetanath and B. Chandrashekhar)
