The social media in Andhra Pradesh had seen wide circulation of a latter, supposedly or allegedly written by State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar to the Union Home Ministry, hours after the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the local body polls postponement.
A fake letter in the name of State Election Commissioner has been making rounds in the media where only two channels ABN and TV5 are making hungama about it.
A letter purported to have been written by Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar to Union home secretary on Wednesday seeking security by Central security forces for him and his family members from attacks by “ruling party goons” has created ripples in the political and media circles.
The Supreme Court judgement refusing to interfere in the postponement of elections to local bodies in Andhra Pradesh has made one wonder whether it came in favour of or against the YSR Congress party government in the state.
Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, who has been under severe attack from YSR Congress party leaders including chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, for postponing the local body elections in the state on the pretext of Coronavirus scare, is learnt to have decided to shoot back at his critics.
In what can be considered a setback to the YSR Congress party government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to intervene in the decision of the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission to postpone the local body elections in the state on account of Coronavirus scare.
The sudden decision of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to field his daughter and former Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha in the legislative council elections from Nizamabad local bodies’ constituency has surprised many.
Once upon a time there lived a great politician by name JC Diwakar Reddy. We can start a story like this. But he became a Joker and Comedian now.
State Election Commissioner, Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, had left the decision of holding local body elections to the Central government.
The TDP is or rather has been good at trolling right from the time when Chandrababu Naidu took over the party in 1995.
The sudden resignation of P Murali Krishnam Raju from the post of chairman of popular Telugu television channel AP 24X7 has exposed the ugly politicking and sorry state affairs in the media, especially a section of electronic media.
In a fresh tone of confrontation with the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh, State Election Commissioner N Ramesh Kumar on Tuesday refused to revoke his decision to postpone the local body elections in the state.
Elections to local bodies in any state – gram panchayats, mandal parishads and zilla parishads – are purely a local affair.
When YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy refuse to cooperate with the police and depose before them with regard to a knife attack on him at Visakhapatnam airport in September 2018 stating that he had no faith in the integrity of the Andhra Pradesh police, the Telugu Desam Party leaders raised a hue and cry.
In a rude shock to senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and former intelligence chief of Andhra Pradesh A B Venkateshwara Rao, the Central Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday endorsed his suspension by the YSR Congress party government alleged irregularities in procurement of security equipment during the previous Telugu Desam Party regime.
