In yet another rude shock to senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former Anantapur MP J C Diwakar Reddy, the Andhra Pradesh mining department slapped a fine of a whopping Rs 100 crore on him for his alleged illegal mining of limestone.
There is still a long way to go for the shifting of administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam as the issue is caught in legal wrangle and whatever move chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is proposing, it is getting stonewalled in the high court.
In the recent heavy rains, floods and very severe cyclonic storm Nivar, Andhra Pradesh Police was on the forefront to save lives, feed stranded people and bring order amid the chaos, officers said.
If the ruling YSR Congress party has its way, Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Nara Chandrababu Naidu may meet the same fate of firebrand YSRC legislator R K Roja during the TDP regime.
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has lashed out on three media houses taking the names in Assembly today.
Telugu Desam Party leaders’ criticism that the attack by a mason on the life of Andhra Pradesh information and transport minister Perni Venkatramaiah alias Nani at his residence on Sunday was stage-managed backfired on him.
Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu and 12 other TDP members were suspended for a day after they stormed the podium stalling the proceedings on the first day of the winter session of the Assembly.
Andhra Pradesh on Sunday reached a significant milestone as the number of Covid-19 tests crossed one crore.
Known for his occasional guest appearances in politics once again, former Congress MP from Rajahmundry Vundavalli Arun Kumar on Saturday targeted YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy once again on Polavaram project issue.
Quite often, the opposition parties have been criticising that the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has lacked discipline in financial management that that it indulged in indiscriminate borrowings to fund his welfare schemes.
Nellore, Prakasam and Rayalaseema districts in Andhra Pradesh bore the brunt of the very severe cyclonic storm Nivar in the past four days, receiving almost 188 per cent excess rainfall.
Even as the YSR Congress party government has decided to restrict media entry into the assembly premises for the winter session beginning on Monday due to Covid-19 restrictions, the opposition Telugu Desam Party is trying to make it a big issue.
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Friday decided to extend an immediate assistance of Rs 500 to each of the persons who were rendered homeless due to Cyclone Nivar impact, which resulted in flooding of their areas.
Even as the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh has moved the Supreme Court a couple of days ago alleging that the state high court was takimg over the executive functions of the state, the latter continues to question the state government’s powers.
With the clock ticking for the GHMC elections, the TRS party and its supreme commander K Chandrasekhar Rao are gearing up.
