The Election Commission of India on Thursday announced indefinite postponement of biennial elections to the state legislative councils of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana due to outbreak of second wave of Covid-19.
Even as the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government is strictly enforcing the partial lockdown in the state for 18-hours a day to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is still allowing pilgrims for the darshan of Lord Venkateshwara on Tirumala hills.
Ever since it faced a humiliating defeat in the by-elections to Tirupati parliamentary seat early this month, the Bharatiya Janata Party has virtually gone into a silent mode in Andhra Pradesh.
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It appears the YSR Congress party leaders are trying to corner Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on the vaccine shortage in the state by linking him with Bharat Biotech promoter Krishna Yella.
After a long gap, the budget session of the Andhra Pradesh state assembly will be held for a few days starting May 20, according to reports from the power corridors in Amaravati.
The latest is giving priority to the second dose scheduled persons in the Covid 19 vaccination drive in the country.
The Andhra Pradesh police have made one more arrest in connection with their ongoing probe into the limestone quarry explosion in Kadapa district on Saturday that left 10 persons dead.
For the last couple of days, the YSR Congress party and Sakshi media house has been targeting Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech for the short supply of Covaxin, the first indigenously made vaccine to counter Coronavirus.
The Andhra Pradesh police on Tuesday filed yet another criminal case against Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for allegedly making statements creating a fear psychosis among the people of the state on Coronavirus pandemic.
AP Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is in favour of withdrawing the Covaxin patient to the Bharat Biotech.
The coronavirus cases continue to wreak havoc nationwide and hospitals are overwhelmed owing to the rise in cases and are raising SOS alarms from time to time citing hospital beds, oxygen, and life-saving drugs shortage.
A series of elections in the recent past in Telangana, including local body elections, have proved that the Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party are absolutely no match to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and cannot defeat it in the next assembly elections.
The vaccination drive for Covid-19 which began with a lot of hype in Andhra Pradesh a few months ago has suddenly slowed down to a large extent, drawing criticism from the opposition parties.
At least 11 patients died and several others are in a serious condition when the pressure in the oxygen supply suddenly dipped at the SVRR COVID Hospital in Tirupati on Monday night, coupled with delay in the arrival of the oxygen tanker from Chennai.
