At last, the Bharatiya Janata Party is understood to have given green signal to the Telugu Desam Party to join the National Democratic Alliance and forge an alliance with the party for the upcoming elections in Andhra Pradesh.
The YSR Congress party leadership seems to be struggling to find a right candidate for several Lok Sabha seats and has been experimenting with reshuffling of candidates again and again.
Veteran Kapu leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham, who eagerly waited for an invitation from Jana Sena Party chief and power star Pawan Kalyan to join his party, has given up his hope.
Faced with criticism from all sections of people, including Kapu community leaders and his own followers for accepting just 24 assembly seats and three MP seats offered by then Telugu Desam Party as part of alliance, Jana Sena Party president and power star Pawan Kalyan made a weak attempt to defend himself.
There is a general talk that YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is heavily depending on his political advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, senior minister Botsa Satyanarayana or for that matter party general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy in the party matters.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena leader Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday sounded the war cry for the forthcoming polls, calling on the people of Andhra Pradesh to back their alliance to end the destructive rule of the YSRCP.
A latest survey conducted by Zee News has revealed that YSR Congress party is going to come back to power in Andhra Pradesh for a second successive term by securing good number of assembly seats and MP seats.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday night released yet another short list of five candidates, including two for Guntur and Ongole Lok Sabha constituencies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address back-to-back public meetings in Telangana state, starting with Adilabad on March 4 and followed by Sangareddy on March 5.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was getting ready to conduct his massive fourth public rally Siddham at Medarametla of Bapatla district on March 3, postponed it by a week.
The newly formed alliance between Telugu Desam Party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan seems to have got a new name – Telugu Jana Vijayam.
The Congress will make a declaration on special category status to Andhra Pradesh at the March 1 public meeting at Tirupati, state Congress chief Y. S. Sharmila Reddy said on Wednesday.
The alliance between Telugu Desam Party and the Jana Sena Party has dashed off hopes of several ticket aspirants in both the parties, as they are losing their bastions as part of seat sharing.
In another setback to YSR Congress Party in the run-up to elections, Ongole MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy on Wednesday resigned from the party.
As expected, YSR Congress party’s Lok Sabha member from Ongole parliamentary constituency Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy on Wednesday quit the party and is all set to join the Telugu Desam Party sooner or later.
