Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former legislator Kadiri Babu Rao, who is considered to be the right hand of senior actor and Hindupur MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna, is also getting ready to jump the fence into the ruling YSR Congress party.
It has become a routine for Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to make wild allegations against political leaders from Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district, the native of chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, describing them as rowdies, factionists and anti-social elements.
Elections in Andhra Pradesh have become a very costly affair. Even the reserved constituencies are costly and not a common man can think of contesting the elections.
Maruthi Rao, one of the accused in the honor killing of 23-year-old Pranay last year, has committed suicide.
Andhra Pradesh's ruling YSR Congress Party on Monday demanded a probe by the central investigation agencies into the link between Yes Bank and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister T Subbarami Reddy on Monday met YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, amidst speculations that he would be seeking renomination to Rajya Sabha on YSRC ticket.
Telugu Desam Party led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu making all out efforts to attack the ruling YSR Congress party over reduction of Backward Classes reservations in the local body elections to get some mileage in the elections.
Former Congress minister and Telugu Desam Party leader Dokka Manikya Varaprasad, who has resigned from his legislative council membership recently, is desperate to join the YSR Congress party, but is hesitant to make the first moves.
Senior Congress leader and outgoing Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao had been a bosom friend of late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, but had been maintaining distance from the latter’s son – YSR Congress party president and present Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Telugu Desam Party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had been several attempts to retain its identity in Kadapa district dominated in the past by the Congress and later by YSR Congress.
The arrest of Yes Bank’s founder-chairman Rana Kapoor by the Enforcement Directorate on Sunday has brought to light how he had allegedly indulged in money laundering through floating shell companies and siphoning of deposits.
The State government had finally decided not to conduct elections in the 29 village panchayats this time.
TV9 has been a revolution in the electronic media. Its emergence broke the monotony and monopoly of the government-owned DD news.
Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had committed that his party would give 34 per cent reservation to the BCs in the on-going local body elections.
The State Election Commission had issued notification for the local body – both urban and rural – elections to be held this month in Andhra Pradesh.
