With the unrest among farmers in Amaravati over the capital issue flaring up gradually, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy quickly sought to douse the fire by clearing the arrears of annuity payments to the farmers.
The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh will not go ahead with the proposed 'iconic' bridge across the Krishna river, throwing another indication that its plans for the new capital Amaravati will not be as ostentatious as envisaged by former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu.
One can understand the anguish of farmers of Amaravati capital region on the reports of a possible shift of capital city to some other place.
When he was in power between 2014 and 2019 in AP, TDP president and former CM N Chandrababu Naidu had earned a sobriquet, 'U-turn Babu,' from his political opponents, as he had changed his stands on several issues repeatedly, whether it was special category status or alliance with the Congress.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has not yet taken any decision on shifting of capital city from Amaravati, though his cabinet colleague Botsa Satyanarayana gave a hint to that effect saying Amaravati was a bad choice for capital city and that state government was seriously thinking about the relocation.
TRS chief and Telangana CM KCR in his first term as CM between 2014 and 2018 boasted that he will not seek votes in elections if he fails to complete Mission Bhagiratha project and provide tapped drinking water to each and every household in Telangana.
Recently, Chandrababu Naidu surprised one and all when he tweeted birthday wishes to mega star Chiranjeevi.
Even as the appointment of senior journalist from Telangana Devulapalli Amar as advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government for national media affairs and inter-state relations triggered uproar in the Andhra media circles, here is yet another heart-burning news for them.
Notwithstanding the pressures from various quarters, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is learnt to have decided to act tough against the alleged irregularities committed by previous Telugu Desam Party government headed by N Chandrababu Naidu.
Andhra Pradesh Police and Legislative Assembly officials on Monday recovered Assembly furniture allegedly diverted by then Speaker Kodela Siva Prasad Rao.
Amid confusion created by statements of Andhra Pradesh ministers and ruling YSRCP leaders over possible shifting of the state capital from Amaravati, a section of farmers who gave their lands for the capital took to the streets on Monday.
Telugu Desam Party general secretary and former Andhra Pradesh Information Technology minister Nara Lokesh has often been dubbed by his political detractors, particularly YSR Congress party leaders, as “pappu,” insofar as his political and oratorical skills are concerned.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to order an investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged illegal mining of limestone and quartz by senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former Gurajala MLA Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao in Palnad region of Guntur district.
At a time when contradictory reports are emerging from the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh over the fate of Amaravati as the state capital region, minister for municipal administration and urban development Botsa Satyanarayana’s latest statements created further confusion.
For the last 10 days, Telugu Desam Party leaders and the yellow media that supports them have been raising a lot of hue and cry over a mechanical boat getting stuck in a crest gate of Prakasam Barrage on Krishna river at Vijayawada.
