Expectations on SCS weigh him down

August 01, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 06:11 am IST

A seasoned politician he is, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu rarely loses his cool. But, of late, he is wary of the burden of expectations on his shoulders. It is the pressure to secure Special Category Status that is mounting on him with each passing day.

On the contrary, the BJP, which holds the key to the solution, is maintaining its composure amidst sharp criticism for reneging on its commitments to A.P.

Multiplying his worries are various theories being debated in the social media about the prevailing political scenario.

“I suspect some of them are real. People are watching every move and those who cheat them will be rendered irrelevant,” Mr. Naidu observed in his guarded reaction to a question by the media on whether the TDP would walk out of alliance in protest against the injustice being meted out to the State since bifurcation.

One thing that is on everyone’s mind is ‘when’, but not ‘whether’ the TDP will snap its ties with the BJP. A BJP leader said that the TDP walked into the trap laid by the Congress, which played a similar blame game.

As the parties tread cautiously, people have to wait for some more time to know who the victor and the vanquished are.

Till then, it’s anybody's guess.

Getting it right on wrong things!

The predictions for Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari, who also holds education portfolio, and Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy are proving to be correct, if one compares the developments related to EAMCET -II with the words of ‘siddhanti’ who read the almanac at the official celebrations of Ugadi in March this year.

The two Ministers may have taken the prediction that they had something adverse in store for them during the year, after a word of solace from Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at the event that they need not be scared too much by the prediction as it would only show the trend and it should be taken as guiding spirit as it would also show the way forward.

The two could be ruing themselves now for not observing enough caution with regard to their duties since they have incurred tonnes of malice from all the stakeholders, particularly the students and parents. Perhaps, Bachampalli Santosh Kumar Shastry, who made the predictions based on ‘panchangam’, may have some suggestions for the two towards coming out of the mess, stainless!

Personal touch to drunk driving

Tapping the emotional bondage is the new mantra of police in its campaign against drunk and rash driving which nipped a tender life in the bud recently. If you are unmarried and get caught driving drunk, your parents are sure to get a call from the city police who will inform them of your misbehaviour. Worse, if married, your spouse will by summoned.

What follows the telephone call is a counselling session where they will be tipped about the consequences of dangerous driving by their kin. And if you are still not embarrassed enough, the police will ask your life partner or parents to keep up the counselling back home.

Since the efforts of police to confiscate driving licences of people responsible for accidents have not materialised, it was decided to lend a personal touch to drunken driving. Police and excise departments justified the moral dealing citing it as a method to inculcate reasoning among many who do not easily get dissuaded from driving drunk. With Hyderabad witnessing 4,500 road accidents on an average per year in which 2,000 people die and 6,000 get injured, this novel approach adopted by the police could turnout to be life saving, say many.

Missed opportunity for job seekers

Sunday (July 31) was another day of missed opportunity for some job seekers as the recruitment exams for constables of transport and excise departments which was conducted by Telangana State public service commission and jobs in Groups C and D of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) clashed.

Since the educational qualification for both the exams was Intermediate, many candidates had applied both ways not knowing that the exam would be held on the same day and at the same time. At the end of the day, the public service commission issued a release that 79 per cent of the candidates took its exam for 477 posts. So, it can be safely assumed that quite a good number of candidates wrote the SSC exam for Central government jobs.

V.RAGHAVENDRA,

B. CHANDRASHEKHAR, NIKHILA HENRY &

N. RAHUL

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