With Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu deciding to appoint Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu as the State Assembly Speaker, it was expected that the Deputy Speaker post would be given to the TDP’s alliance partner—the Jana Sena Party, headed by power star Pawan Kalyan.
With YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy losing power in the just concluded assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, several party leaders are said to be looking for jumping into other parties to safeguard their political future.
In a significant political development, Jana Sena Party (JSP) president K. Pawan Kalyan took charge as the Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Environment, Forests, and Science and Technology on Wednesday.
After the triumphant victory of the Alliance and forming the government in Andhra Pradesh, the newly sworn-in ministers Pawan Kalyan, Nara Lokesh, and Vangalapudi Anitha
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance is likely to face a significant challenge as several senior leaders from the YSR Congress Party (YSRC) accused of corruption attempt to seek asylum in the BJP.
As expected, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has begun changing the names of all the welfare schemes implemented by the previous YSR Congress Party regime by removing the prefix Jagananna from them.
After the Telugu Desam Party-led National Democratic Alliance came to power with a massive majority in Andhra Pradesh, there were concerns about whether TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu would give any importance to his alliance partners—the Jana Sena Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Six months before the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu had made an impassioned appeal to the people, to either vote his party to power or else he would retire from politics.
By-election for two seats of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council under MLAs quota will be held on July 12, announced the Election Commission on Tuesday.
Now that the YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has lost power in Andhra Pradesh, there has been a demand from various sections of people for a probe into alleged scams in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) during his regime.
YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has come under heavy trolling for indirectly blaming it on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for his party’s humiliating defeat in the recently concluded state assembly elections.
Senior high court advocate Dammalapati Srinivas, who has been arguing cases for Telugu Desam Party and pro-TDP officials, is all set to be back as the advocate general of Andhra Pradesh.
Joining the ongoing debate over the possibility of hacking Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday called for using ballot papers.
As expected, the YSR Congress Party, which lost the recent assembly and Lok Sabha elections to the Telugu Desam Party-led National Democratic Alliance, is experiencing an exodus of its leaders in search of greener pastures.
The Polavaram project on Godavari river, considered to be the lifeline of Andhra Pradesh, appears to be an unending saga, as there are no indications of the project to be completed in the near future.
