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.
Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan had closeted with State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar to know the reasons for the SECs decision of postponing the local body elections for six weeks.
The people of the state have given 151 MLAs to Jagan Mohan Reddy and reduced Chandrababu Naidu to 23 in the Assembly in 2019 general elections.
It is known that the people have given power to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy with the historical 151 seats.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney has urged State Election Commissioner N. Ramesh Kumar to revoke his order postponing the elections to local bodies and adhere to the election scheduled announced earlier.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been trying to be a different politician from the day he launched his party 10 years ago.
The Andhra Pradesh surprisingly is witnessing some off the Constitutional heads claiming “Discretionary Powers” to go against the decisions of the newly-elected State government.
Every CM will have a style and his own way of handling things. Former CM Chandrababu Naidu also has a unique style of dealing with challenges.
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The defection of Chirala MLA Karanam Balaramakrishna Murthy from Telugu Desam Party into the ruling YSR Congress party along with his son Karanam Venkatesh and former MLA Paleti Rama Rao has caused a little disgruntlement in the group of former MLA Amanchi Krishna Mohan, who represented Chirala in the past.
As expected, YSR Congress party has bagged several mandal parishad and zilla parishads unanimously, without any contest, amidst allegations by the opposition parties that the ruling party had prevented their candidates from filing nominations.
The spate of defections from Telugu Desam Party into YSR Congress in the last few days, particularly ahead of the local body elections, has definitely come as a rude shock to the party and its president N Chandrababu Naidu.
