An interesting situation is running in the political front of Andhra Pradesh and one can call it a film that can be titled 'Abuse…And Get Abused'.
A meeting between Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader (BJP) Amit Shah and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was held for about 1 hour and 25 minutes.
The AP government on Tuesday issued orders extending the suspension of senior IPS officer A B Venkateswara Rao.
TDP national president Nara Lokesh ridiculed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on his third visit to Delhi in four months, alleging that he "prostrates" before the central government.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has congratulated the Indian cricket team for winning the fourth Test against Australia at the Gabba on Tuesday, thus retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 2-1 series victory Down Under.
Almost a year after announcing his resignation from Telugu Desam Party, former minister and state legislative council member K E Prabhakar has declared that he was still continuing in the party.
Bringing back memories of December's mysterious illness in Andhra Pradesh's Eluru in West Godavari district, Pulla village has seen 24 such cases of convulsions till 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Suspense continues over the conduct of elections to gram panchayats in Andhra Pradesh, as the state high court on Tuesday reserved its judgement on the matter, after hearing heated arguments by both the counsels of both State government and also state election commissioner.
In what can be a setback to the Andhra Pradesh government headed by CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, the state high court on Tuesday struck down the criminal cases filed by state CID in connection with the alleged insider trading in land transactions at Amaravati.
It has been not even two years since YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy came to power in Andhra Pradesh and there is still a long way to go face the elections, unless, of course, the Centre decides to go in for simultaneous polls to all the state assemblies and Lok Sabha.
So, if any agency does any survey on the winning chances of any sitting MLA in the next elections, it should be either fake or commissioned by some vested interests to mislead the people, since it is too premature to do any such surveys.
Of course, some popular agencies do periodical surveys over the overall performance of the governments in various states but not the individual performance of MLA and MPs and whether they would win the next elections or not.
The other day C-Voter did a survey on who is the most popular chief minister based on his performance and Jagan Mohan Reddy was voted as the third most popular CM, while his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao stood in the fourth position from the bottom.
To some extent, it is believable as, by launching a series of welfare schemes, the Jagan government is giving an impression that he is doing well. Even this survey cannot be totally believed as the sample size taken across the country was too low.
For the last two days, a similar survey in the name of Aaara Poll Strategies Private Limited is doing rounds in the social media extensively. According to this survey, the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh has been doing exceedingly well and except in a few states, it might retain more or less same number of assembly seats in the next elections.
For example, in Guntur district, the YSRC has winning chances in 12 out of 17 assembly constituencies in the next elections. In Guntur (West), Maddali Giridhar who defected from TDP to YSRC, has just 41 per cent chances of winning.
In Vemuru, sitting YSRC MLA Meruga Nagarjuna has 46 per cent chances, while Chilakaluripeta MLA Vidadala Rajini and Tadikonda MLA Vundavalli Sridevi have only 31 and 23 per cent chances respectively.
Enquiries revealed that the survey was not conducted by Aaara group at all, but it was just fake. The group, however, did not deny the contents of the survey because it would unnecessarily give a hype to it.
“During the TDP regime, too, such bogus surveys used to surface in the media only to mislead the people. It also led to overconfidence in TDP which ultimately faced a completely different result. Thus, it is better the YSRC doesn’t get carried away by such fake surveys,” an analyst said.
At a time when allegations of multiple temple attacks are making headlines in Andhra Pradesh, the initiative of installing surveillance cameras at all religious places has enabled the state's East Godavari district police on Monday to arrest a drunken butcher for damaging the tridents (trishul) of a local temple in Kakinada more than a week ago.
Actress, television personality and YSR Congress party MLA from Nagari constituency R K Roja never loses an opportunity to display her unflinching loyalty to her party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is leaving for New Delhi on Tuesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.
The attacks on various temples and desecration of idols by miscreants in the recent past have given an excellent weapon to the Bharatiya Janata Party to establish itself as a strong political force in Andhra Pradesh.
Legendary actor and former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh late N T Rama Rao, whose 25th death anniversary was observed on Monday, has taken birth again in his family.
