Nearly four lakh employees of the Andhra Pradesh government, who are silently ruing the government’s decision to shift the administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam, are likely to get larger benefits if they moved to the new capital.
The other day, we have mentioned that social media is a double-edged sword. It is a powerful medium to express one’s views on any issue and at the same time, it has also become a platform to circulate fake news by vested interests without even verifying its authenticity.
For the first time after taking over as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday made a personal appearance before a special court for Central Bureau of Investigation cases in Hyderabad in connection with the alleged quid pro quo cases.
Whatever Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu says and does, it will be a big story for a section of media which has been supporting him for decades. And Naidu knows how to get into the headlines.
A day after enacting a big drama on the busy national highway in Vijayawada city for not being allowed by the police to flag off the bus yatra by Amaravati farmers, the TDP chief once again hit the streets with a begging bowl, collecting funds for the Save Amaravati Movement.
He had even given a call to the people to take to streets to safeguard the “People’s Capital.” Apparently, the response to this “begging” drama was very good and Naidu is understood to have collected a few lakhs of rupees in a span of an hour.
It is not exactly known whether there will be an account for such collections, but it served Naidu’s purpose – getting huge mileage in the pro-TDP media. It was a banner story in Andhra Jyothy on Friday while Eenadu carried it as small story on the front page due to paucity of space.
Interestingly, both these pro-TDP dailies have been desperately trying to sell Amaravati as the best capital as it has all the necessary permanent infrastructure to run the administration.
For the last couple of days, Eenadu has been dedicating huge space for publishing the existing buildings in Amaravati stating that if the administrative capital is shifted from here to Visakhapatnam, all these buildings constructed with hundreds of crores of rupees would become redundant.
Starting from Friday, Andhra Jyothy, too, has begun publishing stories on the wastage of huge public money spent in the construction of several permanent buildings in Amaravati, if the capital is shifted from there.
Sakshi carried a counter report quoting minister Botsa Satyanarayana, stating that these pro-TDP media lacked the spirit of working for people’s welfare and questioning Naidu as to why he had described the buildings in Amaravati as temporary constructions.
The big story of the day, however, is the launch of Jagananna Amma Vodi scheme by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at Chittoor, where he described is a beginning to a new revolution in the field of education. Eenadu, too, carried it as a banner story quoting Jagan as giving an assurance to the school-going children that he would take care of their welfare like a maternal uncle. Andhra Jyothy, too, carried it as a big story albeit in the bottom half of the front page, stating that Jagan is planning to revamp the education system from the grassroots.
Among the other stories that made it to the front page of the major dailies were: the chief minister’s direction to the irrigation department on completion of Rehabilitation and Resettlement of evacuees of Polavaram project by May, allotment of Krishna river water to Telangana and Andhra, personal appearance of Jagan Mohan Reddy in the CBI special court and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu’s call for simultaneous elections in the state.
The Andhra Pradesh is witnessing the ugliest war, everything for politics. The TDP, which had faced humiliating defeat in the 2019 general elections and is doing everything to dishonour the peoples’ mandate.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former Anantapur MP J C Diwakar Reddy does not mince words even when he has to criticise his own party leaders including party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
January 9 is historic day in Andhra Pradesh politics. It was on this day in 2019, Jagan Mohan Reddy completed his historic marathon walk from Idupulapaya in Kadapa to Ichapuram in Srikakulam district.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has certain plans in his mind for the development of Amaravati and there is no need for the farmers who had given their lands to have any anxiety about their fate.
If the CBI court gives its nod, former minister and presently YSR Congress party legislator from Srikakulam Dharmana Prasada Rao will face criminal prosecution in connection with his alleged role in the Vadarevu And Nizampatnam Ports and Infrastructure Company (VANPIC) Pvt Ltd involving industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad.
At least for now, the Andhra Pradesh high court does not want to interfere in the issue of shifting of capital city from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.
Two eyes or two statements, two children or two stands is what Andhra Pradesh former CM N Chandrababu Naidu is known for.
Jagananna Amma Vodi scheme being launched at Chittoor on Thursday, to coincide with the completion of one year of Praja Sankalpa Padayatra of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is said to be the game changer for the YSR Congress party government in the state in the coming days.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan might have stopped acting in films, but in his political life, he has been making guest appearances now and then whenever serious issues crop up, before withdrawing into his shell quickly.
YSR Congress party leader and Andhra Pradesh home minister Mekathoti Sucharita on Wednesday described Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu as anti-social element who is trying to create law and order problems for his political gains.
In a high drama that ran for over an hour, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu courted arrest by the police after stalling the traffic on the national highway at busy Benz Circle in Vijayawada for over an hour on Wednesday night.
