The YSR Congress Party's strategy to drop several sitting MLAs and MPs in Andhra Pradesh for the forthcoming polls has triggered a spate of resignations.
The police in Hyderabad have registered a case against Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh K. Narayana Swamy for his alleged derogatory comments on Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
As the exercise of selection of candidates in the YSR Congress party is coming to a close, party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is getting ready for hitting the road for one last time before the elections.
If speculations doing rounds in social media are correct, rebel YSR Congress party MP from Narasapuram Kanumuri Raghu Ramakrishna Raju is unlikely to get the ticket from any of the political parties – Telugu Desam Party or Jana Sena Party or even the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The last hope of YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to project Visakhapatnam as the capital city has been shattered with the state high court on Friday refusing to allow shifting of the camp office of CMO.
Having been denied party tickets for contesting the upcoming assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, some of the YSR Congress party MLAs are seeking to create troubles to the party and its president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in their respective constituencies.
As the YSR Congress party’s attempts to appease veteran Kapu leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham have failed to yield any results, party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy appears to be looking towards former MLA and Kapu leader Vangaveeti Radhakrishna.
With thousands of families heading to their native places for Sankranti, Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway saw traffic jams on Friday.
As the YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is making drastic changes in the list of candidates contesting the ensuing assembly and Lok Sabha elections, the party leaders are at their wits’ end as to what is going on in the party.
It appears to be prominent industrialist-turned-politician Potluri Vara Prasad, popularly known as PVP who is greatly relieved more than anybody else with the resignation of Vijayawada MP Kesineni Nani from the Telugu Desam Party and his defection to the YSR Congress party.
YSR Congress party leadership appears to be in a state of confusion in the distribution of tickets among the party leaders contesting the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, as party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is facing stiff resistance from several candidates over change of candidates.
As the battle lines are drawn for the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, all the political parties are busy in the selection of their respective party candidates for the big contest.
Andhra Pradesh former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is currently maneuvering various aspects of politics by uniting all the anti-Jagan forces.
In a rapidly changing political developments in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh, the ruling YSR Congress party witnessed entry of an MP from rival Telugu Desam Party and exit of its own MP on Wednesday.
In a huge relief to former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday granted him anticipatory bail in three cases.
