The 48-hour fee-dues fast ends with lemon juice — and three different crore figures still on the table.

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president N. Ramchander Rao ended a 48-hour hunger strike at the State party office in Nampally on Tuesday, 25 August 2026. He had begun it on Monday, 24 August, after police denied Dharna Chowk. The banner read Feesula Bakayi, BJP Ladayi. Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament K. Laxman offered lemon juice at the close. A lemon-juice close is the Tuesday fact. It is not a government release order.

The dues figure the party put on the table still comes in three public books. Launch cards on Monday printed around ₹15,000 crore. A Tuesday close card printed ₹12,000 crore, of which ₹8,000 crore was already pending when Bharat Rashtra Samithi left office in December 2023. A third public account on day two printed around ₹12,000 crore to ₹15,000 crore. This desk will not split the difference. Around ₹15,000 crore, ₹12,000 crore with an ₹8,000 crore Bharat Rashtra Samithi-era leg, and a ₹12,000-crore-to-₹15,000-crore band all stay on the page as party figures. They are not a government dues ledger this desk will invent.

Student counts conflict the same way. Launch cards printed nearly 40 lakh students. The Tuesday close card printed about 20 lakh. The third public account printed 25 lakh. Launch cards also said the party claimed signatures from nearly five lakh students. Nearly 40 lakh, about 20 lakh, 25 lakh and nearly five lakh signatures are four party numbers. This desk will not average them into one invented enrolment.

The party said the government had announced a ₹2,000 crore advance for the next year after a High Court directive and had failed to release it. Certificates have been withheld. Colleges have been unable to pay staff, on the Tuesday close card. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy holds the education portfolio. A party claim that an announced advance was not released is a party claim. It is not a court finding that ₹2,000 crore is due tomorrow, and it is not a treasury voucher this desk will print.

Transport and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said the strike was a drama. He claimed advance fee reimbursements from this academic year for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward Class and minority students. Party claim versus minister claim is the Tuesday record. This desk will not invent a government dues ledger to referee them.

Nampally’s State Bharatiya Janata Party office is the geography. Dharna Chowk is the venue police denied. Form B and any civic-poll date are not notified on a political cutting. This desk will not print a reimbursement cheque number, a college-wise arrears table, or a Cabinet decision the Tuesday close does not carry.

Until a single official ledger writes one crore figure and one student count, the public ledger is a Monday-to-Tuesday 48-hour fast at the State office after a Dharna Chowk denial, a lemon-juice close by K. Laxman, three party dues books of around ₹15,000 crore against ₹12,000 crore with ₹8,000 crore from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi years against a ₹12,000-crore-to-₹15,000-crore band, three student counts of nearly 40 lakh against about 20 lakh against 25 lakh, a nearly-five-lakh signature claim, a party line that a ₹2,000 crore High Court-linked advance was not released, withheld certificates and unpaid college staff on the close card, the Chief Minister holding education, and a minister’s rebuttal that the strike was drama and that advances for listed social categories have begun this academic year. Every crore on this card is still a claim.