{"id":117560,"date":"2017-12-16T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117560"},"modified":"2017-12-16T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T08:19:24","slug":"velkam-is-blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/velkam-is-blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Velkam is blooming &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is for the first time that KTR has openly acknowledged the contribution of Chandrababu Naidu in the development of Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>Political observers say KTR\u2019s comments only reflected the latest \u201cWelcome\u201d VELKAM to be precise \u2013 Velama and Kamma bonhomie phenomenon in Telangana politics.<\/p>\n<p>The TRS is strongly wooing the Kamma community to take on the Reddys, who are backing the Congress party it looks like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117561 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/chandrbabu.jpg\" alt=\"Velkam is blooming ...\" width=\"633\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In turn, Naidu also needs the friendship of the TRS through which the Kammas of Telangana would muster support for the TDP in Andhra.<\/p>\n<p>So both Babu and KCR are wooing Velkam for the future and coming back to power in the next elections. The MD of a popular TV channel who is close to Babu is anchoring this Velkam strategy it is reported.<\/p>\n<p>How far this will work against the Reddys is to be seen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117562\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/u.-srinivas-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"u.-srinivas\" width=\"89\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">U.Srinivas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Editor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is for the first time that KTR has openly acknowledged the contribution of Chandrababu Naidu in the development of Hyderabad. Political observers say KTR\u2019s comments only reflected the latest \u201cWelcome\u201d VELKAM to be precise \u2013 Velama and Kamma bonhomie phenomenon in Telangana politics. The TRS is strongly wooing the Kamma community to take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29597,2],"tags":[60425,3016,1001,64,25340,209,60424,55945,351,60423],"class_list":["post-117560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-babu-and-kcr","tag-chandrababu-naidu","tag-development","tag-hyderabad","tag-kamma-community","tag-ktr","tag-tdp-in-andhra","tag-telangana-politics","tag-trs","tag-velama-and-kamma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PAGE-KTR-SILICONEER-01-SLIDER.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}