The sudden U-turn taken by Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh state unit president Somu Veerraju on projection of a backward class leader as the chief ministerial candidate has come as a big surprise.
In an unprecedented decision, Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Saturday ordered a virtual house-arrest of state minister for panchayat raj and rural development Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy till February 21.
The former minister addressed the media in Hyderabad on Friday, where he justified the privatisation of Visakha Steel Plant.
Telugu Desam Party on Friday announced withdrawal of its election manifesto Palle Pragathi-Pancha Sutralu, released for the ongoing gram panchayat elections, following a direction from Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar.
Tummala Lokeshwara Reddy, advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government on technical projects, was sacked from the post for allegedly poking his nose in the ongoing gram panchayat elections in Kadapa.
The Central government’s announcement on 100 percent strategic disinvestment in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant so as to hand over it to the private sector has given a new weapon to the Telugu Desam Party.
In what can be a temporary setback to Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, the state high court on Friday put on hold the operation of E-Watch, a mobile application of the SEC, till February 9.
Hundreds of Visakhapatnam Steel plant employees, political parties' cadres, among others in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam are protesting against the recent decision announced by the Central government in Union Budget 2020-21 to privatise the steel plant.
Senior IAS officer P Basanth Kumar, who had been serving as the joint executive officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) since July 2019, after YSR Congress party came to power in Andhra Pradesh, had to pay penalty for his overaction.
Even after forcing the Jagan Mohan Reddy government to transfer the collectors of Chittoor and Guntur, besides Tirupati superintendent of police, on the occasion of gram panchayat elections, state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar continues to be targeting these two districts.
In the run up to the forthcoming rural local body polls in Andhra Pradesh, the state police are busy seizing liquor and destroying arrack production facilities after deferring the administration of coronavirus vaccine jab on police personnel.
Till the other day, there had been reports that the Bharatiya Janata Party would project Jana Sena Party chief and power star Pawan Kalyan as its chief ministerial candidate and the alliance between BJP and Jana Sena was based on this premise.
A day after the Telugu Desam Party MPs met Union home minister Amit Shah and gave a long-list of complaints against the YSR Congress party and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, the YSRC MPs retaliated strongly.
The YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, which had to face a lot of criticism over cancellation of power purchase agreements with solar and wind power producers in its initial days, has now proved right in its decision.
State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is still on the mode of criticising the state government, particularly the chief minister and the ruling party leaders.
