For the last few days, we have been listening about new terminology in Andhra Pradesh politics, that has never been heard anywhere in the country.
The market in Andhra Pradesh is jubilant, ahead of the annual Pongal festival.
In a rude shock to former Andhra Pradesh tourism minister and Telugu Desam Party leader Bhuma Akhila Priya, a Secunderabad court on Monday rejected her bail petition and instead, handed over to the police custody for two days.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday suspended the schedule announced by state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar for the conduct of the local body elections in the state in February.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has started giving away the second year payments to the poor in Amma Odi Scheme, a crucial promise in Navaratnalu.
The visible war between the State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar and the state government is now taking new twists and turns.
One side they expect sympathy from the public. They lament that the cases are being booked on them and the police are attacking them.
An incident can be one-off but the talent of politicians is, they amplify it with their own agenda. Unfortunately, those that do it first become successful in registering their propaganda in the minds of the people.
Amid another stand-off between the Andhra Pradesh government and the State Election Commission (SEC) on the holding of panchayat elections, opposition TDP on Sunday urged Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan to intervene in the matter.
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.
