Talk about being in a pressure-cooker-like environment. That is precisely where Bandaru Satyananda Rao, the victorious Telugu Desam candidate from Kothapeta Assembly constituency in Dr Ambedkar Konaseema district, finds himself in. Having promised that he would give every woman voter in the constituency a pressure cooker if elected, Satyananda Rao, after his win, is now facing the reckoning.
To convince the women voters, coupons were distributed by his party cadres and the women were told that once the TD leader wins, they can exchange the coupons for cookers from his residence. But with a three-litre pressure cooker costing more than `300, even at wholesale prices, it has emerged that the newly-minted TD MLA will have to dig up anywhere between `5 crore and `7 crore to fulfil his promise. His political opponents are gleefully watching and claiming that the new MLA’s plans to raise funds by selling sand is now a goner with the TD government making supply of sand free to those building houses.
Meanwhile, word doing the rounds is that the women don’t want a small three-litre cooker but something bigger, with some asking for at least a 10-litre cooker. That is some pressure on Satyananda Rao and his followers right now. In what can only be described as a whirlwind marathon of sheer energy, Telangana Chief Minister A.
Revanth Reddy appears to have earned the title of a 'workaholic CM'. Fresh off a power-packed 12-day tour of the USA and South Korea, where he locked in over `3.