Overview

• The monsoon session convened on August 30 with the government preparing to place the PC Ghose judicial commission report before the House for a full debate.
• BRS legislators formally asked Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar to allow a detailed PowerPoint presentation to rebut the commission’s conclusions and present their version of the project.
• BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao and T. Harish Rao filed fresh applications in the Telangana High Court to restrain any coercive action based on the report until their writ petitions are decided.
• An acute fertiliser shortage triggered statewide protests; BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao was detained during a demonstration, then exited the police vehicle and walked to the Secretariat as party MLAs raised urea slogans in Assembly corridors.
• Official figures cited a large supply gap against Telangana’s Kharif allocation, while Andhra Pradesh confirmed receipt of 10,350 tonnes of urea with more promised, prompting allegations of unequal central allocation.