The government employees are demanding for their complete salary and they are not ready to sacrifice even a bit of it, at least for time being in the interest of the State.
If YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has his way, Machilipatnam, which is presently the capital of Krishna district, would soon become a district and be renamed as Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao district.
The controversy over holding of Casino at Gudivada as part of Sankranti festivities is hotting up with every passing day.
After a long wait of seven years of bifurcation, AP government had announced the creation of new districts in the state.
Vijayawada was once the political capital of the undivided Andhra Pradesh. The city had also been the capital for many things like culture, cinema, library movement, journalism and others.
The government employees in Andhra Pradesh on Monday served a notice on the state government that they will be going on indefinite strike from February 7 to demand rollback of a Government Order relating to pay revision.
The AP police, after a prolonged high drama for nearly three hours arrested TDP leader and MLC Buddha Venkanna in Vijayawada on Monday evening.
A single judge bench of the Andhra Pradesh state high court on Monday refused to hear the petition challenging the latest pay revision of the state government employees announced by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government.
Stepping up their attempts to form a pressure group in Andhra Pradesh so as to gain legitimate share in power, the Kapus in the state, cutting across the party lines, are learnt to have decided to form a joint forum to achieve their goal.
Former Rajahmundry MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar, who has suddenly changed his anti-Jagan Mohan Reddy rhetoric in the recent past, came to the defense of the Andhra Pradesh government on the ongoing agitation of the state employees.
Telugu Desam Party headed by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might have thought it would gain some political mileage by extending support to the ongoing agitation by the state government employees against the recent pay revision.
The disease of mental illness and dementia seems to have become an epidemic among the TDP leaders that they are forgetting the past and wagging their loose tongues.
The Andhra Pradesh government's ban on 'Chintamani' a Telugu stage play that has been around since 1920, has raised the hackles of the art and culture fraternity in the state.
A self recorded video clipping of a common man is going viral in the social media circuit. He seems to be a small shopkeeper.
When they were in the Telugu Desam Party, Rajya Sabha MPs – Sujana Chowdary, C M Ramesh and T G Venkatesh used to sing in secular tunes and were criticising the saffron brigade for destroying the secular fabric of the nation.