Senior Telugu Desam Party legislator and former Andhra Pradesh minister Kinjarapu Atchen Naidu was on Friday arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) authorities in connection with the sensational Employment State Insurance scam in the state.
The fate of retired IAS officer Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar continues to hang in balance, even after the Supreme Court refused to grant stay on the high court judgement reinstating him as the State Election Commissioner.
Even as the Narendra Modi government is in a dilemma over holding parliament sessions in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to go ahead with assembly sessions, irrespective of the pandemic.
It looks like the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is not going to leave former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu till he is thrown behind the bars.
It looks like mega brother and Jana Sena leader Konidela Naga Babu has lost confidence on the abilities of his younger brother Pawan Kalyan in fighting his political rivals.
As many as three advocates arguing various cases of the Andhra Pradesh government resigned from their posts on Wednesday, triggering speculations in the legal fraternity in the state.
Notwithstanding the decision taken by the neighbouring Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and other state governments to do away with Class 10 examinations in their respective states, the Andhra Pradesh government led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has decided to go ahead with the examinations.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former minister Siddha Raghava Rao is going to join the bandwagon of the TDP leaders who have defected to the ruling YSR Congress party, apparently to safeguard his business interests.
The attempt by the YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y s Jagan Mohan Reddy to keep controversial retired IAS officer Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar from the post of State Election Commissioner received a setback in the Supreme Court.
In a surprise turn Nagababu started praising Jagan. It is known that Pawan Kalyan keeps on talking negatively about YS Jagan's rule and Nagababu seconds with his brother in general.
In a further attempt to break the financial backbone of senior Telugu Desam Party leaders of Anantapur district – former MP J C Diwakar Reddy and his brother and former MLA J C Prabhakar Reddy, the YSR Congress party government has ordered seizure of another 154 buses belonging to JC Travels, promoted by the brothers.
The controversy over the appointment of State Election Commissioner in Andhra Pradesh is turning curiouser and curiouser with every passing day.
Even as the Telangana government has been refusing to test each and every person for Covid-19 unless they have clear symptoms, the Andhra Pradesh government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy adopted a completely different approach.
YCP MLA Parthasarathy has said that Lokesh Naidu is the brand ambassador for foolishness.
It is an open secret that the Coronavirus pandemic has crippled several industries in the country pushing many of them into the state of bankruptcy.
