Overview
- Police blocked a BJP fact‑finding team from visiting the Srirampur Singareni mines on Saturday after the party said it went to investigate reports that about 45 lakh metric tonnes of coal had gone missing.
- Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy has written to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy seeking an inquiry into the alleged Singareni irregularities, a step the BJP says should lead to an independent probe; Singareni is majority state‑owned, which complicates jurisdiction.
- The Telangana government announced it will limit procurement of paddy, jowar and other crops to quotas set by the Union, reversing earlier suggestions it would buy ‘every grain’ and prompting sharp criticism from farmers and opposition parties.
- BRS leaders, led by K. T. Rama Rao, have launched public agitation, visited the family of a farmer who reportedly died by suicide after failing to get procurement, handed over relief payments and demanded larger ex gratia support and jobs for the children.
- The row has widened into fights over land and development projects, open letters between parties about Metro approvals, and preparations for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls that parties are using to mobilise support.