Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might be trying to tap the Hindu vote bank by taking up the issue of the recent attacks on Hindu temples.
Amid the furore over the reported desecration of Hindu idols and allegations of rising attacks on Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday laid the foundation for the reconstruction of nine Hindu temples allegedly demolished during the previous Telugu Desam Party (TDP) regime.
In a strategic move to counter the opposition and silence the critics over vandalism in temples and desecration of Hindu god idols, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy came out with a plan to rebuild major temples in Vijayawada that were demolished during the Chandrababu Naidu regime for road widening.
It is a known fact that a government is a continuous process. The parties in power may change, but the administration, that comprises bureaucrats, police, officials in the secretariat and other departments, remains the same.
Chandrababu and Donald Trump have some similarities. The main similarity is ridiculing the democratic system.
Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district administration has asked the Income Tax Department to conduct raids during the forthcoming Sankranti festival, which is renowned for cockfights and indiscriminate gambling, involving hundreds of crores of rupees.
The YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, which has been facing all-round attack from the opposition parties over the vandalism in various temples and desecration of idols of Hindu gods, is learnt to have quickly got into damage control mode.
The Andhra Pradesh Urban Development Department inked a pact with UK's prestigious University of Cambridge on Thursday to train teachers and students in English.
It has now become a new trend for a section of media to play up wild allegations against a political leader made by his opponents without even verifying the factual position or taking his version and then, going back on the same in a routine manner later.
The Andhra Pradesh police department on Thursday condemned the attempt by some politicians to attribute religious colour to the police department with the intention of misleading and inciting the public.
In a big relief to senior IPS officer and former intelligence chief of Andhra Pradesh A B Venkateshwara Rao, the state high court on Thursday issued an directed that the state government not take any action to arrest him in any case for now.
When Atchen Naidu was arrested Chandrababu made big fuss about it. When Kollu Ravindra was arrested in murder case, Chandrababu made huge noise.
The unsavoury comments made by Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu attributing communal motives to him, Andhra Pradesh director general of police Gautam Sawang has decided to drag the former to the court.
There is a news in Eenadu website today. That is about the arrest of Ex Minister of Andhra Pradesh Bhooma Akhila Priya and her husband Bhargav Ram in a kidnap case.
Hours after arresting Telugu Desam Party leader from Allagadda in Kurnool and former minister Bhuma Akhila Priya in connection with the kidnap of three persons related to Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Hyderabad police arrested senior TDP leader A V Subba Reddy in the same case.
