Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has decided against attending the all-party meeting being held by the NDA government on conducting simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha and state elections at New Delhi on Wednesday.
Kothapalli Geetha, the former YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP from Araku in Andhra Pradesh, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy would be misleading the people if he claimed that he would fetch special category status to the state during his tenure.
The Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Tuesday passed yet another resolution demanding that the Centre grant special category status to the state to undo the damage done to the state in the last five years.
Elections are all about political rivals but not enemies. Leaders of political parties contesting against one another in the elections should forget their rivalries once the elections are over. That is the beauty of democracy.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who was initially planning to hand over the chief minister’s baton to his son K T Rama Rao soon after the Lok Sabha elections is learnt to have dropped the plan now.
The other day, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy categorically told the media in New Delhi that his party had neither got an offer from the Bharatiya Janata Party nor had he asked the Lok Sabha deputy speaker post for his party.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Monday met his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy here and invited him for the inauguration of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project on June 21.
The recent change of government in Andhra Pradesh has led to fall in real estate prices in Amaravathi.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party leaders are raising a hue and cry over the withdrawal of pilot and escort vehicles for their party president and leader of opposition N Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh government has provided brand new vehicles to YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Its just two weeks since YS Jagan Mohan Reddy took over as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
AP chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday told party MPs that there was no need for an alliance with the BJP, indicating that he is not prepared to accept any posts at the Centre including the Lok Sabha deputy speakership.
Contrary to the talk that YSR Congress party president and newly-elected Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has conveniently pushed the special category status demand to the backburner, he raised the issue once again with a strong voice at the Niti Aayog governing council meeting held in New Delhi on Saturday.
When he was in power in Andhra Pradesh till recently, Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had received brickbats for his frequent U-turns on several issues, particularly, the special category status issue.
Now that he has completed the formation of a full-fledged cabinet, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has ample time to focus on accommodating other loyalists and seniors in the party in various important posts and positions.
