
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former MP J C Diwakar Reddy, who used to be very aggressive when the party was in power, might have mellowed down after its defeat in the elections.

Strange are the ways how the previous TDP government worked in the new Amaravati capital.

The decision taken by the Andhra Pradesh cabinet headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday to sue media, if they publish any negative story against the government without any evidences, has caused jitters in the yellow media.

YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been striving right from the day one to provide transparent and corruption-free administration in the state, appears to be frustrated with the reports of some of his own cabinet colleagues allegedly indulging in corrupt practices.

It has been four months since Rajya Sabha member Y S Chowdary alias Sujana Chowdary had defected from Telugu Desam Party to Bharatiya Janata Party, along with three other MPs – C M Ramesh, T G Venkatesh and G Mohan Rao.

The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday dealt a rude shock to popular media house Andhra Jyothy by taking back the land allotted to it in Visakhapatnam.

Senior Telugu Desam Party leader Varla Ramaiah, known for his loose tongue on any controversial issue, has got the notices from the police for his comments on the murder of former MP Y S Vivekananda Reddy, uncle of YSR Congress president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

When former Andhra Pradesh Speaker and senior Telugu Desam Party leader Kodela Sivaprasada Rao was alive, his son Shivaram and daughter Vijayalakshmi virtually ruled the roost in Palnadu region, particularly in Narsaraopet and Sattenapalli and even in Guntur town.

That N Srinivasan is back in the BCCI is by now national news. Yesterday’s images of him walking into the Cricket Centre holding Sourav Ganguly’s hand bear testimony to this.

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan had been the regular target of the YSR Congress, for his kindness to the TDP, most of the time.

The total prohibition line taken by AP government in the new excise policy has become a source of filling the coffers of the State in Telangana.

The ongoing tussle between the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and Central government over power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed with solar and wind power companies seems to snowballing into a big fight.

The four-month old Jaganmohan Reddy government is rolling out schemes one after the other. This time, the initiative is for revival of six cooperative sugar factories in Chittoor, Kadapa, Guntur and East Godavari districts.

Perhaps for the first time, Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh unit president Kanna Lakshminarayana has made a comment in appreciation of YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is said to be facing troubles from the Centre despite saving nearly Rs 800 crore through reverse tendering in executing the balance works of Polavaram major irrigation project and associated hydro-power project.