Andhra Pradesh's ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Sunday dismissed the opposition BJP's allegations that the state government is imposing restrictions only on Hindu festivals.
Andhra Pradesh finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy on Saturday once again blamed it on the previous Telugu Desam Party government led by N Chandrababu Naidu for the present financial mess in the state and accused the TDP of indulging in a smear campaign to malign the Jagan Mohan Reddy government on the state finances.
The Telangana Congress on Saturday alleged that Y S Vijayalakshmi, widow of former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, had convened the meeting at Hyderabad on September 2 only with a political motive, rather than paying homage to her husband.
At a time when thousands of employees of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, also known as Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, have been agitating for the last eight months in protest against the Narendra Modi government’s move to privatise the steel plant, national BJP general secretary Daggubati Purandeshwari sought to play a cruel joke on them.
The AP High Court would start hearing a case from September 14, filed against the Galla Foods, which is owned by TDP Guntur MP Galla Jayadev.
In yet another setback to the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh, the state high court on Friday ordered that the reimbursement of fees under Jagananna Vidya Deevena (Fee reimbursement scheme) be done to the colleges but not to the mothers.
YSR Congress MP and Parliamentary Party leader V Vijayasai Reddy alleged that former minister and TDP leader P Ashok Gajapathi Raju had robbed Rs 8,000 crore from the Mansas trust.
Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy justified his government rolling out freebies to the people in the name of one or the other scheme.
The Central Bureau of Investigation probing the derogatory posts on social media against judges and judiciary in Andhra Pradesh allegedly by certain social media activists of YSR Congress party, announced removal of all such posts.
Telugu Desam Party needs a complete overhaul at all levels and has to get rid of unwanted elements, if it has to put up any fight against the YSR Congress party in the next assembly elections.
Four IAS officers and another retired IAS officer were on Thursday sentenced to imprisonment, besides being slapped fine by the Andhra Pradesh high court for failing to implement a court order in a land compensation case dating back to 2015.
A tweet posted by Y S Sharmila, daughter of former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh late Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, on his 12th death anniversary on Thursday, turned out to be a topic of heated discussion in the media circles.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which manages the country’s richest temple of Tirumala in Chittoor district, has refuted the allegations that it was leasing out Kalyana Mandapams across the Telugu states to make money.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday dismissed the case filed by Anti-Corruption Bureau against former advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas and others in the alleged insider trading in Amaravati lands.
It has been 12 years since Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh, passed away in a tragic helicopter crash in the Nallamala forests on his way to Chittoor to launch Racha Banda programme.