With state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar unilaterally announcing the schedule for conducting gram panchayat polls in February, everybody is curious as to what YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will do now.
The circular issued by Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar late on Friday night announcing the schedule for the gram panchayat elections in the state appears to be a political statement.
Controversial Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, who virtually entered into a showdown with the Jagan Mohan Reddy government by unilaterally announcing the schedule for gram panchayat elections, got an unusual support from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Notwithstanding the strong resistance from the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government, state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Friday night announced the schedule for the conduct of elections to gram panchayats in February in four phases.
The Bhuma family from Allagadda in Kurnool on Friday staked claim for the controversial Hafeezpet lands in Hyderabad, dispute over which led to the alleged Tuesday’s kidnap of three people related to Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s family.
In a sudden development, political strategist and founder of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) Prashant Kishor met YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at the latter’s camp office on Friday afternoon.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might be trying to tap the Hindu vote bank by taking up the issue of the recent attacks on Hindu temples.
Amid the furore over the reported desecration of Hindu idols and allegations of rising attacks on Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday laid the foundation for the reconstruction of nine Hindu temples allegedly demolished during the previous Telugu Desam Party (TDP) regime.
In a strategic move to counter the opposition and silence the critics over vandalism in temples and desecration of Hindu god idols, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy came out with a plan to rebuild major temples in Vijayawada that were demolished during the Chandrababu Naidu regime for road widening.
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Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district administration has asked the Income Tax Department to conduct raids during the forthcoming Sankranti festival, which is renowned for cockfights and indiscriminate gambling, involving hundreds of crores of rupees.
The YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, which has been facing all-round attack from the opposition parties over the vandalism in various temples and desecration of idols of Hindu gods, is learnt to have quickly got into damage control mode.
The Andhra Pradesh Urban Development Department inked a pact with UK's prestigious University of Cambridge on Thursday to train teachers and students in English.
