Following Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) Nara Chandrababu Naidu boycotting MPTC and ZPTC elections in Andhra Pradesh, senior Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V. Vijayasai Reddy on Saturday questioned if people boycotted Naidu.
Ever since the YSR Congress party came to power in the state in 2019, Telugu Desam Party leaders have been alleging that the Jagan government has been harassing them, foisting false cases on them and sending them to jails on one pretext or the other.
After landing in an embarrassing situation over promising special category status to Puducherry Union territory, Bharatiya Janata Party has shot back at its critics who questioned why it had denied similar special status to Andhra Pradesh.
TDP vice-president Jyothula Nehru had tendered his resignation to the party vice-president post on Friday in protest against its president Chandrababu Naidu’s decision to boycott the parishad elections.
Y S Sunitha Reddy, daughter of slain leader Y S Vivekananda Reddy, made some sensational comments stating that some top police officials were bringing psychological pressure on her to drop her fight for the CBI case into her father’s murder.
As expected, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday announced boycott of the elections to mandal parishad and zilla parishads, in protest against the unilateral decision of the SEC to conduct the elections.
The first-ever all-party meeting, convened by newly-appointed Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Neelam Sawhney, ended on an unpleasant note with most of the opposition parties boycotting the same.
The opposition TDP is likely to boycott the Parishad (MPTC and ZPTC – Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad) elections in Andhra Pradesh.
The much-awaited poll schedule for the pending MPTC and ZPTC in Andhra Pradesh, was released on Thursday.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the principal opposition party in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday lambasted a local English daily for publishing a report which falsely claimed that the party is merging with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after Nara Chandrababu Naidu allegedly finalised a deal.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted surprise searches in the two Telugu states on Thursday.
Even as the Narendra Modi government is hell bent on privatising the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), on the ground that it has been running in losses, the workers of the company have brought the company back into profits.
At a time when several villages in Andhra Pradesh are facing major issues such as lack of potable water, among others, Panchayat Raj principal secretary Gopal Krishna Dwivedi has said that the state has won 13 national panchayat awards under various categories in 2021.
BJP in Andhra Pradesh, which is keen on winning the by-elections to Tirupati parliamentary seat by hook or crook, has landed in deep trouble with the party’s central leadership promising special category status to Puducherry, a Union Territory, going to polls on April 17.
The Hyderabad's Deccan Chronicle English daily has interesting way of bringing its April 1st edition every year.
