The liquor policy of the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government is taking twists and turns, with boozers finding innovative ways to quench their thirst while the state is losing revenue heavily.
With the Union finance ministry writing to Polavaram Project Authority, scaling down the cost of prestigious Polavaram major irrigation project on Godavari river to Rs 20,398 crore, a blame game of sorts has begun between Telugu Desam Party and ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh.
It is quite obvious that Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is making a desperate attempt to give a push to his son and party general secretary Nara Lokesh, so that he would be projected as the chief ministerial candidate by next elections.
It looks like Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar has decided to defame the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government and show it in poor light in connection with the conduct of local body elections.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) General Secretary Nara Lokesh alleged that no minister or ruling party leader was visiting the flood-affected people in the state.
More and more skeletons are tumbling out of the cupboards of GITAM University, following the demolition of its compound wall and some other structures at its Rishikonda campus in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.
The relationship between media and politicians is like fish and water. Most politicians use media as the platform to project themselves and it also works on giving them some mileage.
It appears Chandrababu is in a big fix. He is unable to understand how to promote his son Lokesh.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said Polavaram Irrigation Project (PPA) is a national project which the Central government has a responsibility to complete.
It is known news that the Andhra Pradesh government has demolished illegal encroachments of Gitam University and this is evoking major reactions from the opposition party TDP.
The abnormal increase in the cost of Polavaram project, which the NDA government is refusing to accept now, is due to the improper calculations of the previous TDP government led by N Chandrababu Naidu.
Even as Telangana government led by K Chandrasekhar Rao tried to pamper its state government employees by announcing one instalment of dearness allowance pending since July 2019, his Andhra counterpart Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy proved much better in appeasing the employees on occasion of Dasara.
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Tourism Muttamsetti Srinivas flayed the Opposition party for drawing controversies over GITAM University lands and reiterated that the government is not vindictive towards the TDP.
To protect farmers from middlemen, the Andhra Pradesh government has enabled them to register their agricultural produce in advance to sell it at procurement centres, so that the support price can be credited directly into the farmers' accounts.
The adamant attitude of State Election Commission Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar to conduct the elections to rural and urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh clearly shows that he wants to continue his confrontationist attitude towards the Jagan Mohan Reddy government.
