With farmers of Amaravati capital region in Andhra Pradesh kick-starting their 61-days of Amaravati to Arasavilli padayatra on Monday, the ruling YSR Congress party has started a massive counter-attack.
The Amaravati farmers have started their second leg of padayatra on Monday. The yatra would be until Arasavalli temple in Srikakulam district.
Seven persons were killed and several others injured in a fire that broke out in an e-bike showroom, which spread to a lodge on the upper floor in Secunderabad, police said.
Minister for Energy, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, slammed Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s claims on power dues by Andhra Pradesh to the Telangana state.
Hitherto, ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has not taken any stand towards national politics and is completely focussed only on the state politics.
With the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh just a year and a half away, the YSR Congress party legislators and ministers in several constituencies have started facing threat from their own party leaders.
With the Andhra Pradesh High Court giving its green signal, preparations were in full swing for the second Maha Padyatra by farmers to demand
Adopting an aggressive posture, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy appears to have decided to go all out to decimate the opposition Telugu Desam Party led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The proposed Amaravati to Arasavilli padayatra by the farmers of the capital region of Amaravati is aimed at invading Visakhapatnam, senior YSR Congress party leader and Andhra Pradesh industries minister Gudivada Amarnath said.
The other day, there were reports that YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has pulled up his cabinet colleagues who have not been effectively countering the allegations and attacks from the opposition Telugu Desam Party leaders.
Senior YSR Congress party leader and former chief minister N T Rama Rao’s widow Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi received a setback in the Supreme Court on Friday, when it struck down her petition seeking for an inquiry into alleged illegal assets of Telugu Desam Party president N Lakshmi Parvathi.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Friday gave conditional permission to the 60-day long “Maha Padayatra” by the farmers of Amaravati to Srikakulam from September 12, hours after the state police refused to grant approval to the same.
Andhra Pradesh Police have denied permission to Amaravati farmers for 'Maha Padyatra' proposed to be launched from September 12 to demand the implementation of High Court orders for development of Amaravati as the state capital.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is a leader who emerged by the virtue of his connectivity with masses.
The Andhra Pradesh government will distribute tablet computers (Tabs) to students and teachers of Class 8 at a cost of Rs 643 crore.
