True Colours

On June 13, the cabinet colleagues of Telangana inaugurated two-bedroom houses for the poor in Kamareddy, fulfilling his pre-2014 poll promise. The catch? They are painted bright pink—the colour of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Don’t rule out a whitewash yet. In neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy government was recently asked by the Supreme Court to take down the ruling party’s colours (green-blue-yellow) from panchayat buildings.