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Congress, BRS, MIM Running Vote-Bank Politics: Bandi
HYDERABAD: Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar accused the Congress leadership of turning the Jubilee Hills byelection campaign into a religious contest, ignoring development issues that truly affect the constituency.Sanjay claimed the real fight was between the BJP and Congress, criticising what he termed “opportunistic alliances” between the Congress, AIMIM and the BRS. He alleged that government agencies had ignored complaints about the mysterious death of Jubilee Hills MLA Maganti Gopinath and alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao were eyeing the late MLA’s properties.“If the Chief Minister has courage and integrity, let him order a thorough probe into Gopinath’s death,” Sanjay said, showing copies of what he claimed were official complaints regarding the case. He also questioned the nomination of Gopinath’s wife,...
GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States
The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance, and they have long...
Congress Targets Kerala CM for Excluding SC Minister in His Cabinet
Politics tamfitronics Thiruvananthapuram: On the final day of campaigning, the Congress accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of preventing a Dalit from potentially becoming the future Chief Minister of Kerala and of not including a Scheduled Caste minister in his Cabinet.Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan claimed that by nominating K Radhakrishnan for the Alathur Lok Sabha seat, which he subsequently won, the Chief Minister has created a scenario where, for the first time in Kerala's history, there is no Scheduled Caste minister in the state cabinet. The Congress leader noted that Radhakrishnan, who first became a minister in the E K Nayanar Cabinet in 1996, has held various responsibilities, including Speaker of the Kerala Assembly and ministerial positions, and was seen as a potential future CM candidate.The Congress highlighted the absence of a SC minister in...
Members of Congress seek details on Chandra funding and operations
NASA Space Technology The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (above) and Hubble Space Telescope could face budget cuts as NASA deals with overall spending reductions. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. VaughanWASHINGTON — Several members of Congress are seeking more details about the operation of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a space telescope whose budget has faced steep cuts.In an Oct. 30 letter to Patrick Slane, director of the Chandra X-ray Center, six members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D), asked for more details about the operation of the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope and the effects potential NASA budget cuts would have on it.NASA had proposed a 40% cut in Chandra’s budget for fiscal year 2025 in the budget proposal the agency released in March. However, agency officials said at an Oct. 23 town hall...
