Within minutes of the Nandamuri family led by senior actor and Telugu Desam Party legislator from Hindupur Nandamuri Balakrishna coming to the defence of party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the YSR Congress party shot back at them.
At least 12 people were killed and 18 others went missing after three buses of Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) were stuck in floods triggered by heavy rains in Kadapa district on Friday.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday gave clean chit to his cousin and Kadapa MP Y S Avinash Reddy in the alleged murder of his uncle and former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy in March 2019.
Nobody can rule out the Karma doctrine. It's nothing but Newton's Third Law- For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
Perhaps for the first time in his four-decades of political career, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu burst into tears and wept inconsolably, taking the media persons by shock and surprise.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday took a sensational decision not to enter the state assembly again for the rest of the present term.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is definitely on cloud nine for his party recording a resounding victory in all the municipal elections, particularly in Kuppam, hitherto a bastion of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, with a huge majority.
For the last few days, there has been a talk in the Telugu film industry circles that Andhra Pradesh minister for information and public relations Perni Venkatramaiah alias Nani has made an offer to the industry people.
Out of the election results from the 328 municipal wards all that Janasena could bag were only five seats.
The Andhra Pradesh government is understood to have decided borrow Rs 1500 crore from the State Bank of India to partially clear the loans obtained from Rural Electrification Corporation so as to avoid being declared as defaulter by the Central government organisation.
The winter session of the Andhra Pradesh state legislature, which began on Thursday, will adopt a bill on the much-publicised online ticketing system in cinema theatres, to give it a statutory status.
YSR Congress party general secretary Devireddy Shiv Shankar Reddy, a close associate of Kadapa MP Y S Avinash Reddy, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday in connection with the murder of former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, claims that he was no way concerned with the murder.
Now that the YSR Congress party conquered Kuppam by decimating the Telugu Desam Party in all the local elections, right from gram panchayats to municipality, its next target is obviously the next assembly elections.
The arrest of Devireddy Shiv Shankar Reddy alias Dondlavagu Shankar Reddy from Pulivendula in Kadapa district, considered to be a close aide of YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, provided an interesting twist to the case of the murder of Jagan’s uncle and former MP Y S Vivekananda Reddy in March 2019.
As expected, the ruling YSR Congress party has captured the Kuppam municipality in Chittoor district, defeating the Telugu Desam Party with a huge majority.