What was initially thought to be a natural death has turned out to be a sensational murder case with wide political ramifications in view of next month's elections in Andhra Pradesh.
YSR Congress party leader and former state Minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, who was found murdered on Friday, was buried on Saturday.
The Congress party is virtually being pushed to back benches in the Telangana state assembly, going by the speed at which its MLAs are defecting to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
A TDP candidate and a policeman were injured accidentally when his security guard fired in the air in Andhra Pradesh's Kaggallu village on Saturday to disperse YSRCP activists allegedly attacking him, police said.
The YSRCP leaders are very happy that AP Minister Nara Lokesh is contesting from Mangalagiri constituency.
Jana Sena Party president and actor Pawan Kalyan is fighting the elections in Andhra Pradesh with strange political combinations.
In a rude shock to Telugu Desam Party, former minister and senior party leader from Nellore Adala Prabhakar Reddy did a complete somersault on Friday. He is all set to join the YSR Congress party.
In a rapidly changing political scenario in Andhra Pradesh, there has been large scale of defection of leaders from one party to another.
YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday demanded a CBI probe into the "murder" of party leader and his uncle Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy.
The murder of former MP and ex-minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, brother of former chief minister of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at his residence in Pulivendula of Kadapa district on Friday morning created a huge sensation in the state.
At time when everybody appears to have forgotten Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham as the electioneering has picked up the momentum, the Telugu Desam Party suddenly laid a trap for him.
The Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati and the Jana Sena Party led by actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan on Friday announced their alliance for the Lok Sabha election.
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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Friday alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh were behind the murder of party leader Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy.
With six MLAs crossing over to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the last 15 days, the opposition Congress party in Telangana looks demoralised ahead of next month's Lok Sabha elections.
The post mortem conducted on YS Vivekananda Reddy, former legislator, minister and brother of late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy revealed what YSRCP leaders and family members had been suspecting since the time news of his demise in suspicious circumstances, broke out.
