The Telangana Assembly on Tuesday appealed to the Centre to name the new Parliament House after Dr. BR Ambedkar. In a letter to the Union government, Minister KT Rama Rao said that Parliament is the pinnacle of a country's democracy.

The Assembly today passed a resolution unanimously to this effect. In the resolution, KTR described Ambedkar as the architect of the Indian Constitution, and a reformer who vehemently fought for social justice.

Earlier in the week, Chief Minister KCR took an extreme position on the NDA government's power sector reforms, saying that the poor are going to be severely affected by the reforms. He urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll them back at the earliest. He cautioned that the BJP-led government at the Centre won't last beyond this term if it continues to take "anti-poor" decisions. "Even the likes of Hitler and Mussolini faced imminent fall. You have to remember it," KCR said.