Sri Talasani Srinivas Yadav

Talasani Srinivas Yadav was born on October 6th 1965 . He was born and upraised in a middle class family in the Secunderabad town of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state.His father, Late Shri. Venkatesham Yadav was Monda market president.

Talasani's humanitarian and social activities at young age forced him to enter politics by contesting as Monda Market corporator way back in 1986. Talasani is a senior political leader of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a pivotal figure in the Andhra Pradesh Politics, He is popularly referred to as Srinanna.

Talasani elected to Andhra Pradesh Assembly from Secunderabad Assembly constituency in 1994 under the leadership of Late Legend Shri.Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao. Talasani defeated his rival Smt . Mary Ravindranath by gaining 47.29% votes. In 1999 assembly elections Talasani become an MLA and Minister, defeating Congress candidate Smt. Mary Ravindranath by thumping majority. Facing defeat in 2004 assembly elections Talasani vowed to become a fighter who would take up the cause of backward classes, under privileged and oppressed sections of society retained his assembly seat with a huge victory in 2008 Assembly bye elections. Talasani defeated his nearest rival Pitla Krishna of Congress by 18,067 votes.

He earned himself a niche in the minds of people while serving as the Member of Legislative Assembly & Cabinet Minister. He was instrumental in bringing the problems of the State especially of backward classes to the forefront. He earned respect for his forthright espousal of the plight of farmers in Assembly.

At his young age, Talasani became Minister for Tourism, Culture and Archaeology Govt of Andhra Pradesh, Later he became Minister for labour Government of Andhra Pradesh in Shri. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu's cabinet, In 2005 he became State Telugu Yuvata President.

His prolonged experience in active politics and his strong base at the grassroots level enabled him to plunge straightway into the task of tackling many problems faced by the State. During his tenure Talasani had controlled corruption in the labour department. He was the driving force for the rise of TDP organisation in the twin cities during last two decades.

Talasani also served as Official spokesperson of Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Talasani visits several hutments and colonies coming under Secunderabad division on every sunday as part of 'stock-taking' exercise. Talasani interacts with locals, especially women and children, and visits hutments located in and around secunderabad as part of the 'Paadayatra'. He played major role in bringing various tourism promotion projects in Andhra Pradesh during his visits to South Africa , United Kingdom , Australia and United States .

Born to Smt. & Shri Venkatesham Yadav, Talasani is proud of his simple family background. Married to Smt. Swarna, the couple have one son and two daughters. His son Talasani Saikiran is pursuing Masters of Business Administration from University of Wollongong , Australia .

Race for Secunderabad gets closer

It may not be a ‘cakewalk’ for Srinivas Yadav in the Assembly constituency

Talasani Srinivas Yadav


Jayasudha

HYDERABAD: The race is surely getting closer. What was thought and predicted to be a ‘cakewalk’ for Talasani Srinivas Yadav in Secunderabad Assembly constituency is not so anymore now. More and more residents, especially slum-dwellers, are starting to warm up to actor Jayasudha, who appears to have been effective in shedding the outsider tag by leveraging her charisma.

In the recent Secunderabad byelection, Mr. Yadav had defeated his Congress rival Pitla Krishna by 18,067 votes.

This time round, however, things don’t look all that easy for him. Ms Jayasudha is managing to strike a chord, especially with women, here and this could be a big reason for the race to get tighter.

Observers

The fact that local Congress leaders, who expected to get nominated, were not cooperative initially during the campaign has now subsided.

The Congress has sent election observers to Secunderabad to keep a check on the campaign and this appears to have worked.

Mr. Yadav, however, has a reputation and a strong base at the grassroot level in several divisions of Secunderabad. The former Tourism Minister in the TDP government lost in 2004 to the TRS’ Padma Rao by 3,070 votes only to come back strongly in the byelection.

Mr. Yadav first became an MLA in 1994, thanks largely to the N. T. Rama Rao wave, by defeating Mary Ravindranath of the Congress. In 1999, he repeated this performance by defeating the same candidate by 37,523 votes. Just when Mr. Yadav was hoping for a hat-trick, he lost to Mr. Padma Rao.

Yadav camp tense

The Praja Rajyam has fielded Mekala Sarangapani, a well-known follower of Mr. Yadav, in Secunderabad. The fact that Mr. Sarangapani has a reasonable following in pockets of Secundrabad and could wean away votes from the TDP to PR is making Mr. Yadav’s camp a bit tense.

Secunderabad has 1,95,667 voters and 10 per cent of the voters are Christians. It’s clearly a two-horse race in Secunderabad with Mr. Sarangapani having the potential to play spoilsport by cutting into the TDP and Congress support base.

Filmi glamour vs development

The battle lines are drawn in Secunderabad and it will be an interesting contest

T. Srinivas Yadav

Jayasudha

HYDERABAD: The battle lines are drawn and it surely is cine glamour versus development as far as Secunderabad Assembly constituency is concerned.

Sitting TDP MLA Talasani Srinivas Yadav believes that his work speaks for itself and campaigning will hardly make a ‘difference’ in garnering him votes for the fourth term. “People know me from 1994 when I first became an MLA from here. Since then I initiated several developmental programmes which will certainly help me in elections,” he claims.

Yadav’s confidence

Construction of the road-underbridge abutting the decades-old Oliphant Bridge in Secunderabad and another bridge at Allugadda Bavi for smooth flow of traffic, development of parks, providing civic amenities in slums and other such works will fetch votes for the TDP.

“My rapport with people and party activists alike is a plus point for me,” he feels. He lost the seat in the 2004 elections to TRS candidate T. Padma Rao. In the by-poll last year, he bounced back, winning with a majority of 18,067 votes. With the TDP and TRS in a seat-sharing deal, the main contenders in the fray now will only be Mr. Yadav and tinseltown diva of yesteryears, Jayasudha. But it’s not going to be a cakewalk for political novice Jayasudha. Congress lost the seat in 1994, 1999 and in the 2008 bypolls.

The Congress high command appears to have nominated Jayasudha with an eye on the sizeable chunk of minority votes (Christians and Muslims have about 40,000 votes). Slum dwellers may also support her because of schemes like Rajiv Arogyasri, loans at 25 paise interest, Rs.2-a-kg rice, etc introduced by the Congress government during last five years.

Ms Jayasudha first has to sort out internal party squabbles as Pitla Krishna and Adam Vijay Kumar, who hoped to be nominated, strongly protested against her nomination. “I met all the leaders in the constituency and have faith in them that they will help me in fighting against TDP,” says Ms. Jayasudha.

The most attention-grabbing factor is the role of slum-dwellers, especially in Addagutta and railway employees in deciding the fortune of candidates. Meanwhile, Praja Prajyam’s candidate Meekala Sarangapani filed nomination papers amid revelry on Monday.

Sri Talasani Srinivas Yadav interacting with slum dwellers of Bansilalpet on Wednesday.

Team of civic officials visits some areas under MCH jurisdiction

SHARING THEIR WOES: Mayor Teegala Krishna Reddy and former Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav interacting with slum dwellers of Bansilalpet on Wednesday. — PHOTO: SATISH H.

HYDERABAD: Gangireddy Yellaiah Doddhi Compound at Bansilalpet could be among the slums to be short-listed for construction of modern apartment blocks under the proposed Hyderabad Slum Redevelopment Programme (HSRP) if Mayor T. Krishna Reddy's promise comes true.

The Mayor visited the slum, among the 996 notified slums within the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, on Wednesday and urged the slum dwellers to cooperate with the civic body for the proposed project.

Housing scheme

"We had earlier made provisions for laying cement roads, sewerage, water supply and streetlights. If you people give us a positive sign we will be ready with a foundation stone for the modern housing programme soon," he said.

Whatever Mr. Reddy might have claimed, civic conditions inside the dingy labyrinthine lanes of the slum was pathetic, to say the least. Overbearing stench, defunct streetlights, irregular water supply and absence of domestic power supply in a few houses were some of the problems put forth by the local people.

Most of the crammed dwellings consisted of one or two tiny rooms as the womenfolk came out to welcome the leaders and also seek better sanitation and street lighting from the civic body.

Accompanying the Mayor was former Minister T. Srinivas Yadav and MCH senior officials. The next visit of the entourage was to the Old Jail premises in Secunderabad. The corporation is planning to build a multi-storied commercial complex and also parking facility at the site.

But, the main building which has heritage value will not be disturbed, said Mr. Reddy. He appealed to shop owners to help the corporation develop the area as tenders for construction of a modern market have just been called.

TDP demands probe into OMC issue

Plans to intensify agitation; submits memorandum to Governor

Photo: Satish. H

Up in arms: TDP workers led by party leaders Kadiam Srihari and Talasani Srinivas Yadav staging a dharna in Hyderabad on Sunday. -

HYDERABAD: Signalling its move to intensify the agitation on the Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) issue and arrest of its MLAs, the Telugu Desam Party has demanded a judicial probe by a sitting High Court Judge, cancellation of mining leases.

A delegation led by TD Parliamentary Party Leader K. Yerran Naidu, legislator T. Devender Goud and MLC Dadi Veerabhadra Rao, submitted a memorandum to Governor Rameshwar Thakur on Sunday seeking a direction to the Government to suspend the police officials in Anantapur district for “highhandedness” against the MLAs and also for eviction of G. Janardhan Reddy, Karnataka MLC representing OMC, from the leased area.

They explained to the Governor on how party legislators were treated by the police.

All those who were arrested on Saturday were still staging a dharna outside the Rayadurg police station to convey their protest.

They showed Mr. Rameshwar Thakur pictures of the land then and now and narrated how OMC had allegedly pulled down an ancient Sunkulamma temple.

It was unfortunate that a supposedly democratic Government behaved in an authoritarian fashion.

They said the TDP would raise the issue in the Legislature and in Parliament.

Earlier in the day, party leaders and cadres staged dharnas before statues of the Mahatma Gandhi in all district headquarters and in Hyderabad.

A delegation also met Justice B. Subhashan Reddy, Chairman, State Human Rights Commission and reiterated their demand for justice.

Left condemns

Meanwhile, the CPI (M) and CPI have condemned the arrest of leaders and elected representatives of the TDP during their visit to Obulapuram mining area. In a statement, CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu questioned the rationale behind the arrest of the people’s representatives when there was no “illegal” mining and everything was in accordance with the law. In the light of allegations of irregularities in mining leases being granted to “influential” people, the Government should constitute a House Committee to probe into the issue, he said. CPI State secretary K. Narayana, in a separate statement, said the Government would lose nothing by allowing the TDP leaders to inspect the area. He termed as “undemocratic” the efforts to prevent even the legislators to enter the area.

Source : The Hindu

Vijayarama Rao, Srinivas Yadav file nomination papers

HYDERABAD, MARCH 26. If it was intended to send a signal that there was no discontent over his candidature among division-level party leaders and workers, the massive rally that preceded the filing of nomination by the Telugu Desam candidate, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, for Secunderabad Assembly constituency on Friday succeeded in the attempt.

Flanked by the Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, the city TDP president C. Pratap Reddy, and the BJP city president, Venkataramani, Mr. Yadav, who was standing in an open top jeep, was cheered by party workers all the way.

The procession, which began at Sitaphalmandi junction and passed through all the 14 divisions in the constituency, looked like a victory rally with drum beats, bursting of crackers and showering of flowers. Vehicular traffic had to come to a halt or take a diversion near Chilakalguda and Mylargadda when the procession took its own time to pass the area.

A huge gathering waited in front of the Municipal Corporation office for the arrival of Mr. Yadav right from noon. Around 2 p.m., Mr. Yadav filed four sets of nomination papers.

Mr. Yadav thanked the party leadership for allotting the ticket for the third time and said he was confident of victory.

Development works taken up by the TDP Government, provision of basic amenities in the constituency, including roads, drinking water, drainage, development of twin cities as a model one in the country and his accessibility to people would make his win easier, he said.

He challenged that even if leaders Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and D. Srinivas (Congress) or the TRS leader, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, contested together against him, he would win the seat hands down.

He predicted that the Congress would draw a blank in the city in the coming elections.

Kids exhorted to take a leaf from Kalam's life

Ministers K. Vijayarama Rao and T. Srinivas Yadav launching the `Chaduvula Panduga' in Hyderabad on Monday. Also seen are Hyderabad Mayor T. Krishna Reddy and Collector Rajeshwar Tiwari. - P.V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD NOV. 24. The statewide `Chaduvula Panduga,' with the aim of enrolling all children below the age of 15 into schools, was launched on Monday.

The programme, part of the State Government's objective of achieving total literacy by 2005, was launched by the Commercial Taxes Minister, K.Vijayarama Rao, and Tourism, Culture and Archaeology Minister, T.Srinivas Yadav, at the Government High School, Erram Manzil, where five school dropouts and two new students were admitted to the school. `Aksharabhyasam' was done to the newly enrolled students by the Ministers themselves.

They urged the children to attend school regularly until they completed class X and said that childhood was the best phase for education, which should be spent in school and in increasing knowledge and general awareness.

The Tourism Minister, Mr Srinivas Yadav, said that education was important for everyone and the Government had been providing facilities to help poor families send their children to schools. The Government was determined to set up a school in every slum, he said and added that last year over 30,000 children of school-going age were admitted to schools and it was estimated that there were another 30,000 children who were outside schools in the city. Out of 880 schools in the city, new buildings were constructed for 230 schools, another 40 were under progress, while another 60 were under planning stage.

The Government had sanctioned Rs.30 crores for construction of buildings, while the Municipal Corporation had sanctioned Rs.5 crores for provision of infrastructure. Responding to the school headmistress's appeal for funds to maintain the computer lab and pay for the Internet facility to help the students browse various websites, he assured to allot funds from the Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan programme.

Mr.Vijayarama Rao said that childhood should be utilised for learning, improving awareness and knowledge. Education alone, irrespective of one's family background, would help one achieve great things in life. He exhorted the students to draw inspiration from President Abdul Kalam, who, hailing from a humble background, became a great space scientist. Schoolchildren in turn should identify other children in their localities not attending school and motivate them to take admission in Government schools where no fees would be charged.

He told the children to have a dream and realise it by formulating a plan of action. The Minister and the Punjagutta corporator, Rami Reddy, announced Rs.5000 each from their salary for the school education committee every month and suggested that the committee in turn should approach other donors in the area to mobilise funds to offer facilities like computer lab to the students. Organisations like Naandi Foundation had come forward to help maintain 300 Government schools in the city. The committee should approach such donors and NGOs for mobilising funds, he said.

A woman blesses Telugu Desam Party candidate Talasani Srinivas Yadav as he campaigns in Hyderabad on Friday.

Srinivas Yadav makes a comeback

Back in business: TDP candidate T.Srinivas Yadav who won from Secunderabad celebrating his victory with supporters on Sunday. -

HYDERABAD: It was a grand comeback for former Minister and Telugu Desam Party’s candidate for the Secunderabad Assembly constituency bypoll, T. Srinivas Yadav. What was expected to be a close fight between the Congress, TDP and the TRS, Mr. Yadav came out triumphant with a comfortable margin of 18,067 votes.

Surprisingly, his nearest rival was not incumbent T. Padma Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) but Congress Party’s Pitla Krishna. While Mr. Yadav bagged 50,031 votes, Mr. Krishna got 31,964 votes. The TRS candidate came third with 28, 256 votes.

Mr. Yadav, who went to Tirupati on Saturday, came down on Sunday afternoon to accept the election certificate from Returning Officer D.C. Bheema Naik. Talking to newsmen, he made it clear that the people have given a clear verdict against the Telangana sentiment.

The TDP’s commendable performance in the bypolls portend bad news for Congress and TRS for the upcoming general elections, he said and predicted his party to come to power next year. “You can’t take people for a ride all the time just based on promises of Telangana. The TDP city unit has taken off and is all set to regain the twin cities in the general elections,” he said, as his followers cheered lustily.

The TRS candidate, T. Padma Rao, charged TDP and Congress with using “money power” to win votes. “Money flowed like water and it tilted the balance. However, I humbly accept the verdict of the general public and will continue to work as an ordinary party worker for the cause of a separate statehood,” he said.

Mr. Yadav, who served as Minister twice in the erstwhile TDP Government was defeated by 3,067 votes at the hands of Mr. Rao when TRS had an alliance with Congress.

Early in the morning, there was not much excitement at the counting centre of Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet with the TDP candidate forging ahead right from the first round of counting itself gaining 1,290 votes. From then onwards his lead went on increasing and by the end of the 13th round, the writing was on the wall and his counting agents raised slogans hailing his victory and their party.

The 15th round counting took little more than four hours.

Yadav keen to bounce back

Says TDP has always honoured its promises and delivered

T. Srinivas Yadav

HYDERABAD: Defeats are not meant forever. Having tasted it in the last elections from Secunderabad Assembly constituency, former Minister and TDP candidate, T.Srinivas Yadav is keen to bounce back.

And the task has been made that much easier by the TRS candidate T. Padma Rao himself, he says. “In the last four years, Mr. Rao did not do anything for the constituency and the electorate is really vexed up with his attitude,” he claims.

A host of factors went against him in 2004 when the TRS candidate defeated him with a 3,000-odd vote margin. Anti-incumbency, rain gods not being benevolent and the opponents misleading electorate with false promises are some of the factors, Mr. Yadav lists out for the defeat.

“People feel cheated now and issues such as inflation, bad civic amenities and short supply of drinking water are worrying them. They will vote me back for my party always honoured its promises and delivered them,” he says.

The constituency for the last four years has been stagnating in apathy, he alleges. The conditions in Addagutta, considered second largest slum in Asia, continue to deteriorate, slums remain plunged in darkness with no streetlights while amenities took a bad beating.

Contribution

From the swank new Gandhi Hospital to second vent of Oliphant Bridge, Mr. Yadav stakes his contribution and says such developmental initiatives during his tenure will come back to pay.