why hyderabad cm need to start an English newspaper

K. Chandrasekhar Rao likely feels that an English newspaper will be able to project his party’s programmes in a positive light and its news items will resonant with a national audience.

• Rajasekhara Reddy had established his own newspaper Sakshi to counter Eenadu, and had allegedly used the government machinery to push the paper and garner government advertisements. Though the paper was naturally biased in its political reporting, it did well for its good feature content.
• Rao controls a Telugu paper Namaste Telangana, which by all accounts is doing well.

The Congress party is in shambles and the BJP is a non starter in the state, at least till now. N. Chandrababu Naidu, and his Telugu Desam Party, have been banished to Andhra Pradesh, leaving Rao without any rivals.

During the time of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Telugu paper Eenadu was virtually the main opposition running strident campaigns against the chief minister. But in Rao’s regime, Eenadu has gone soft, even as the chief minister has offered 500 acres to Ramoji Rao ( the owner of the paper) to set up a spiritual city – Om City – that will be replete with temples, most of which will be replicas of major Hindu shrines across the country. There will also be cinema halls that will play religious movies.