After losing the legal battle with state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar over the conduct of local body elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSRC party president and Andhra Pradesh CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy appears to have taken the elections very seriously.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu claims himself to be the senior most politician in the state, if not country, with four decades of political experience behind him.
The abrupt transfer of two district collectors – Narayana Bharat Gupta of Chittoor and I Samuel Anand Kumar of Guntur –by state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar came as a blessing in disguise for them.
Ever since Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar got a favourable judgement from the Supreme Court on the conduct of local body elections in the state, the YSR Congress party leaders have been targeting him with harsh words.
Sometimes some decisions appear to be right but they become detrimental eventually. Such decisions are generally taken in haste and desperation.
Every citizen above the age of 18 years is eligible to get his right to vote. He or she can apply for voter registration, duly giving the residence certificate or Aadhar card.
The tantrik, who tied talismans to two sisters a day before they were killed by their parents in Madanapalle town of Chittoor district on January 24, said he had seen a man in the house continuously blowing a conch into the ears of the elder sibling. He also said he saw the parents in a sound state of mind.
The excessively superstitious couple from Andhra Pradesh, who recently killed their two adult daughters in Madanapalle in Chittoor district, still believes that their daughters will come back to life.
After actress and firebrand YSR Congress party MLA from Nagari R K Roja, it was the turn of another YSRC MLA and former minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy to lament on the humiliation being meted out to him in his own constituency.
The full-page advertisement released by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in the newspapers on Wednesday making an appeal for making the elections to gram panchayats unanimous has expectedly caught the attention of state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar.
The AP government will not take action against the officers that State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar had recommended.
The information and public relations department of Andhra Pradesh government, which is supposed to enhance the prestige of the state government, had been in the news for wrong reasons several times in the past.
Has megastar Chiranjeevi decided to extend support to his younger brother power star Pawan Kalyan, whose Jana Sena Party is struggling gain a foothold in Andhra Pradesh?
The YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy introduced the village volunteer system with a view to extends the fruits of the various government schemes to the door steps of the people.
Even as the Andhra Pradesh government is encouraging unanimous elections declaring financial incentives up to Rs 20 lakh for gram panchayats, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its local ally Janasena denounced the move on Wednesday.
