The ruling YSR Congress party has several stalwarts in Prakasam district, including ministers Balineni Srinivasa Reddy and Audimulapu Suresh, TTD chairman Y V Subba Reddy, apart from defectors from TDP like Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy and Siddha Raghava Rao.
Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan was on Wednesday rushed to Hyderabad after reporting symptoms of Covid-19 and admitted to Asian Institute of Gastroenterology for treatment.
The reports that former Bharatiya Janata Party national president and Union home minister Amit Shah has pulled up the party leaders from Andhra Pradesh for not extending support to the agitating farmers of Amaravati evoked a lot of surprise in the political observers of the state.
In a big achievement to the Telangana government, Pochampally village in Yadadri Bhongir district has been selected as one of the Best Tourism Villages by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
It appears the Andhra Pradesh high court is sympathetic towards the farmers of Amaravati, who have been agitating for retention of the capital city at Amaravati, instead of dividing it into three capitals.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a petition challenging an order of the Andhra Pradesh high court which rejected the plea of a devotee to look into irregularities in puja and archana at the Lord Venkateswara Swami temple at Tirumala.
It looks like YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s face off with judiciary is continuing, as he is of the firm view that Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu is still managing the systems.
The Andhra Pradesh state election commission (SEC) on Tuesday rejected the allegations of the Telugu Desam Party that there were large scale malpractices in the municipal elections in Kuppam in Chittoor district, polling for which was held on Monday.
Constantly facing flak from the opposition parties over the sorry state of roads in the state, the Andhra Pradesh government is preparing to repair as many as 46,000 km of roads, on a war footing.
The Bharatiya Janata Party national leadership is understood to have categorically told its leaders in Andhra Pradesh that there is no question of joining hands with the Telugu Desam Party again in any manner.
After repeated postponements, the Andhra Pradesh state high court on Monday commenced hearing of the petitions filed by the farmers of Amaravati and others against the decision of the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government to form three capitals for the state.
With YSR Congress party going all out to capture Kuppam municipality in Chittoor district by hook or crook, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu personally entered the scene to make last ditch efforts to save his prestige in his own assembly constituency.
It was Nadendla Manohar, the only person who is known to the public from Janasena after Pawan Kalyan.
Responding to Vijay Sai Reddy’s allegations, TDP MP Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar retorted that TDP did not have the ‘suitcase culture’ of distributing money for electoral purposes.
After maintaining silence for quite some time, actor and firebrand YSR Congress party MLA from Nagari assembly constituency R K Roja was at her acerbic best in attacking Telugu Desam Party led by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.