The sudden suspension of senior IPS officer and former state intelligence chief A B Venkateshwar Rao on the charges of irregularities in procuring critical intelligence and surveillance contract to favour his son is sending shivers down the spine of several other officers who had called shots during the Telugu Desam Party regime.
The Andhra Pradesh government late on Saturday night placed Director General of Police-rank IPS officer A B Venkateswara Rao under suspension for allegedly "endangering" national security through his "acts of treason" when he was state Intelligence chief during the previous regime.
A news report by a globally reputed news agency – Reuters – had shocked entire Andhra Pradesh for a few hours.
Disha Act is aimed at providing speedy justice to rape victims by punishing the culprits at a faster pace, said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy here on Saturday.
At a time when the media houses in Andhra Pradesh are virtually divided on political lines, it has become difficult for the readers to believe what is right and what is wrong.
Following negative reports from different parts of Andhra Pradesh that names of several thousands of people were deleted from the list of pensioners in the state, the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government has started taking corrective measures.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is understood to have serious note of the “fake news” allegedly planted by international news agency Reuters on the shifting of Kia Motors plant from Anantapur to Tamil Nadu.
The TDP has a special style and strategy of pushing forward its line of thought, mostly in its favour for its political prospects.
When YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy enacted a legislation in the state assembly seeking to provide 75 per cent reservation in jobs for locals, the opposition parties raised a hue and cry.
Telugu Desam Party leader and chairman of Gitam Group of Institutions Matukumilli Sri Bharat, also happens to be younger son-in-law of senior actor and TDP legislator Nandamuri Balakrishna, received yet another shock on Friday.
Promotional activities are in full swing for Nithin and Rashmika Mandanna starrer romantic comedy Bheeshma.
Since morning, Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been crying foul from roof tops over a report carried by a news agency on the shifting of Kia Motors from Anantapur to Tamil Nadu, claiming that the Jagan government has been driving away all the industries he had brought during his regime.
The TDP leadership and its yellow media are good at spreading rumours. They are the best and trained political magicians who can create anything out of nothing and nothing out of something.
If the reports coming from the Telugu Desam Party sources are believed, the security cover of Nara Lokesh, TDP general secretary and son of party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, has been reduced.
Andhra Pradesh state legislative council chairman Mohd Ahmed Shariff on Thursday constituted two select committees to study the two crucial bills related to the state capitals, despite stiff resistance from the ruling YSR Congress party.
