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.
A government order issued by the Andhra Pradesh infrastructure and investment department’s special chief secretary Karikala Valaven on Wednesday gave a weapon the Telugu Desam Party to take a dig at chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has indirectly given a green signal for the shifting of the Andhra Pradesh high court to Kurnool as part of the formation of three capitals in the state by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government.
State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar said that he was not biased to any political party. Neither he had any liking for any political party.
In a bid to promote Sanatana Hindu Dharma, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) will build 500 Lord Venkateshwara Swamy temples in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
For the first time after a long gap, Telugu Desam Party MPs met Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, triggering a lot of speculations.
The move of Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmgadda Ramesh Kumar to launch a separate mobile application supposedly for monitoring the irregularities in the ongoing panchayat elections has kicked up a row.
