As expected, retired IAS officer and former Andhra Pradesh chief secretary Neelam Sawhney has been appointed as the new State Election Commissioner (SEC), in place of Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, who will be relinquishing his office on March 31 on attainment of superannuation.
It appears the case pertaining to shifting of administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam has come back to square one.
The selection of retired IAS officer K Ratna Prabha as the candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the by-election to Tirupati parliamentary seat has evoked positive reactions from the party leaders.
It has become fashion for the political party leaders to accuse the rivals of conspiring against them whenever there are allegations of corruption against them.
The Supreme Court's decision to 'dismiss' Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's allegations against its judge Justice N V Ramana, is a half-baked decision.
The BJP had finally named its candidate for the impending Tirupati Lok Sabha by-election.
After hectic confabulations and prolonged speculations, the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership on Thursday finalised the candidature of retired IAS officer and former chief secretary of Karnataka K Ratna Prabha for the ensuing by-elections to Tirupati parliamentary seat.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh police on Thursday reacted strongly to the so-called sting operation by the Telugu Desam Party leaders on some Dalit victims whose assigned lands were purchased before land pooling by the Naidu government.
A statement from Supreme Court on Wednesday stating that the complaint made by Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on October 6 stands dismissed evoked sharp reaction from legal experts.
Telugu Desam Party has claimed to have done a sting operation on the allegations of cheating of Dalit farmers in Amaravati, based on which Andhra Pradesh crime investigation department (CID) police booked a case against party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy today inaugurated Kurnool airport and named it after freedom warrior Uyyalavada Narasimha Reddy.
Two candidates have filed their nominations for the Tirupati Lok Sabha bypoll on behalf of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
The defeat of the party in the recent municipal elections seems to have thrown some sort of rethinking for TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu.
The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has not yet taken any decision on the appointment of new state election commissioner, in the wake of the retirement of present SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar.
Senior YSRCP leader and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy said on Wednesday that the whole country will take note of the ruling party's majority after it wins the Lok Sabha bypoll in Tirupati, scheduled to be held on April 17.
