Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh are scheduled along with Lok Sabha polls in 2024 but 2023 is set to witness political rivals gearing up for the big battle and evolving their strategies.
As the election atmosphere in Andhra Pradesh is gradually getting heated up though it is more than a year to go for the general elections, the focus of all political parties is on consolidating their vote bank, particularly that of weaker sections.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has begun a fresh game in Telangana by holding a huge rally in Khammam a few days ago, generating a new lease of life in the party which has virtually become defunct in the state.
The latest statement made by the Central government in Parliament leaving it to the discretion of the Andhra Pradesh government to implement five percent reservation to Kapus under Economically Weaker Sections category is snowballing into a major issue ahead of the next assembly elections in the state.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is trying to break away from monotony in attacking his political rivals these days in order to attract the attention of the audiences.
Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant was injured in a car accident on Thursday near Uttarkhand's Roorkee, according to authorities.
Former minister and senior YSR Congress party legislator from Venkatagiri Anam Ramanarayana Reddy appears to be mentally prepared to get out of the YSRC, as he got enough indications that he might not get the party ticket in the next elections.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party is trying to gain the public sympathy over the tragic death of eight party sympathisers in the stampede at the public rally of party president N Chandrababu Naidu at Kandukuru on Wednesday night, the YSR Congress party quickly reacted and sought to blame it on Naidu's craze for publicity.
Senior YSR Congress party leader and Andhra Pradesh irrigation minister Ambati Rambabu on Wednesday gave an ultimatum of sorts to Kapu community to choose between a credible leader like chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy or an inconsistent leader like Pawan Kalyan.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday expressed shock over the stampede at Kandukur town in which eight persons died and some others injured.
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s public meeting in Kandukuru of SPSR Nellore district on Wednesday night was the second one in his list.
Be it Chandrababu or any other politician, they feel a strategy in conducting public meetings in the narrow streets and roads of towns and villages.
It looks like senior YSR Congress party leader and former minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy is looking for excuses to get out of the YSRC, as it is more or less confirmed that he won’t get the party ticket in the next assembly elections.
Eight people, believed to be Telugu Desam Party workers, have died in a stampede that broke out at a public meeting organised by TDP supremo and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Union Minister Kishan Reddy for celebrating the high court order transferring the MLAs' poaching case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).