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.
After a gap of almost three years, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided fulfil his promise to enhance the retirement age of employees from 58 years to 60.
Having failed to win the legal battle with state election commission headed by Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar in preventing the conduct of gram panchayat elections, the ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched a counter-strategy to grab the maximum number of gram panchayats unanimously without any elections.
The battle between the SEC and the AP Government has gone to an extent ofirritating the system.
The superstitious mother of two girls, whom she and her husband had murdered as part of eccentric rituals with a hope to resurrect them later, continued to be in an unstable condition on Tuesday.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday announced attractive financial incentives up to Rs 20 lakh in the forthcoming panchayat polls to encourage unanimous elections and thereby enable the gram panchayats to concentrate on the developmental work.
The farmers movement that had been peaceful for the last two months turned violent on Republic Day on Tuesday after the protestors deviated from the designated route for the proposed tractor rally.
The proposed Rath Yatra by Bharatiya Janata Party and its alliance partner Jana Sena in Andhra Pradesh from February 4 in protest against vandalisation of temples in the by some miscreants in the recent past and demanding protection of temples has been postponed.
There was a sudden leak from the Bharatiya Janata Party sources to some media houses on Tuesday stating that retired IAS officer and former chief secretary of Karnataka K Ratna Prabha, would be contesting the by-elections to Tirupati parliamentary seat as a common candidate of the BJP and Jana Sena Party.
Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Union Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju diverted his rejected donation for Ramateertham to Ram Mandir construction in Ayodhya on Tuesday.
Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhushan Harichandan said the state is marching ahead with emphasis on education, health care, agriculture and welfare, on Tuesday at the 72nd Republic Day celebrations.
In what is called a last minute effort, AP chief secretary Adityanath Das had written to the Union Secretary seeking guidance to handle vaccination.
With Supreme Court giving green signal to the conduct of elections to gram panchayats in Andhra Pradesh as scheduled by state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, the YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has decided to go ahead with the polls.
Even after getting a favourable judgement from the Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is still apprehensive that there might be hurdles for the conduct of elections to the gram panchayats.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila on Monday strongly condemned the rumours that she is floating a new political party.
