Going by the kind of statements and political speeches prominent leaders were giving in Andhra Pradesh, one has to sit up and take notice if the state is slowly going through a transition from a stellar secular polity into an unnecessary communal one.
Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar might have thought he acted too intelligently in announcing the poll schedule for gram panchayat elections in the state on Friday night and bringing the model code of conduct with effect from Saturday.
The Andhra Pradesh government's national media and inter-state affairs advisor, Devulapalli Amar, on Saturday said the mainstream media houses are falling into the trap of social media, resulting in inadvertently spreading false news leading to communal tension in the state.
When YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy accused state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar of dancing to the tunes of Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu because both belonged to the same caste, he was criticised by his political rivals.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has donned the Hindutva mask for the last few days and projecting himself as a Messaiah of Hindus, has received a big jolt from the Christian community.
A controversy has erupted between the Andhra Pradesh government and the State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar when the latter allegedly unilaterally declared the schedule for conducting the rural local body elections.
With state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar unilaterally announcing the schedule for conducting gram panchayat polls in February, everybody is curious as to what YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will do now.
The circular issued by Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar late on Friday night announcing the schedule for the gram panchayat elections in the state appears to be a political statement.
Controversial Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, who virtually entered into a showdown with the Jagan Mohan Reddy government by unilaterally announcing the schedule for gram panchayat elections, got an unusual support from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Many say 'miracles do happen'. To say in practical terms, if we believe there is God who is governing us from above, he has no religion but only the people have.
Notwithstanding the strong resistance from the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government, state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Friday night announced the schedule for the conduct of elections to gram panchayats in February in four phases.
The Bhuma family from Allagadda in Kurnool on Friday staked claim for the controversial Hafeezpet lands in Hyderabad, dispute over which led to the alleged Tuesday’s kidnap of three people related to Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s family.
In a sudden development, political strategist and founder of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) Prashant Kishor met YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at the latter’s camp office on Friday afternoon.
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.
