VIJAYAWADA: Education and IT Minister, Nara Lokesh, has expressed the state government's commitment to supporting handloom weavers. The minister laid the foundation for the new Padmasali Bhavan, a project aimed at supporting handloom weavers, at a ceremony held near Kolanukonda on the Mangalagiri-Vijayawada bypass. Lokesh hoped that the new Padmasali Bhavan would become a central hub for the Padmasali community, …
DEVARAKADRA : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has given a specific assurance that the five per cent GST on handloom products would be scrapped, said party MP Uttam Kumar Reddy. Rahul Gandhi, who entered Mahbubnagar district during the day, said that people had been experiencing 'raja' rule than democracy, as Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was ruling on his whims and …
Hyderabad: BJP state president, MP Bandi Sanjay said that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had ignored the family members of 360 weavers, who had committed suicide in the last eight years. Sanjay said that the lives of 360 weavers could have been saved had Rao implemented the assurances he gave to handloom workers. He said that when BJP comes to …
