
Despite severe restrictions imposed by the police, cancellation of leaves by the Andhra Pradesh government and preventive arrest of several leaders, thousands of the state government employees took part in the Chalo Vijayawada rally on Thursday.

The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government has withdrawn all the remaining cases pending against the Kapu activists, who had agitated in 2016 for inclusion of the community in BC category and extension of reservations to them.

The face-off between the Andhra Pradesh government employees and the Jagan Mohan Reddy government reached its climax on Wednesday evening, hours before their proposed Chalo Vijayawada rally.
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The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh, which has been making all efforts to resolve the demands of the state government employees on pay revision amicably, has decided to take tough measures to curb their agitation.

Police in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday started detaining leaders of the government employees and teachers' unions to foil 'Chalo Vijayawada' called by PRC Sadhana Samiti on Thursday.

There has been unanimous disappointment over the new union budget introduced by the Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman

The Vijayawada police have denied permission for the government employees to hold Chalo Vijayawada rally on February 3.

The Andhra Pradesh government told the state high court on Tuesday that there is absolutely no reduction in salaries of the employees in January compared to December; instead, there is an increase in the gross and net salaries.

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Tuesday issued interim directions to the Jagan Mohan Reddy government not to deduct money from DA arrears of the state governments in the name of recovery of four per cent differential amount between interim relief and latest fitment.

All these days, YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president Y S Sharmila had been targeting only ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on various public issues.

YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been maintaining utmost restraint in dealing with the agitating state government employees all these days, appears to have decided to act tough hereafter.

For the last few days, the entire Telugu Desam Party battalion, starting from party president N Chandrababu Naidu to his son Nara Lokesh to local party leaders in Krishna district made a hue and cry over the alleged conduct of Casino programme in the convention centre belonging to state civil supplies minister Kodali Nani at Gudivada during the Sankranti festivities.

AP TDP Women's wing President Anitha Vanagalapudi has come up with Nari Sankalpa Deeksha to protest against the injustice to women in YCP rule.

Former TDP leader, former Union minister and present BJP MP, Y S Chowdary, popularly known as Sujana Chowdary, is addressed as Vijaya Mally of South.

AP chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is learned to have started the exercise to pick up candidates for the impending Rajya Sabha elections from the State.