There are still three more days until the counting of votes in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections, and uncertainty remains about which party will come to power when the results are announced on June 4.
Starting Sunday, the last official connection between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will be severed, with Hyderabad ceasing to be the joint capital of the Telugu states and becoming solely the capital of Telangana.
The results of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Lok Sabha elections will be declared on the 4th of this month, creating great excitement.
Andhra Pradesh Police have booked Government Advisor and YSR Congress Party General Secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy for allegedly making provocative statements about the vote counting process.
Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer K Dhananjay Reddy, who is considered to be the eyes and ears of YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, is relinquishing his service on attaining the age of superannuation.
Senior IPS officer and former intelligence chief of Andhra Pradesh A B Venkateshwara Rao was finally reinstated in service on Friday, hours before his retirement from service on superannuation.
Many people are betting on the Andhra Pradesh election results. They know the return ratio is higher for those betting on YCP's win compared to Kutami's win.
YSR Congress Party president and Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy completed his full five-year term on Thursday.
The Election Commission of India on Thursday brushed aside the allegations of the YSR Congress party leaders that Andhra Pradesh chief electoral officer M K Meena had violated the rules by relaxing certain norms in the counting of postal ballots.
YSR Congress party MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy from Macherla assembly constituency in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh, who has been facing a series of cases in connection with the post-poll violence in his constituency, sought judicial intervention in transferring police officials investigating the cases filed against him.
National Students' Union of India (NSUI) national Secretary and lawyer Sampath Raj was found murdered in Andhra Pradesh's Sri Sathya Sai district on Thursday.
The Telugu state was divided into two in 2014. It was TDP that came to power that year and ruled for five years. Then YCP came to power and ruled for five years.
It was a common scenario in some crucial places of Andhra Pradesh for decades, where a Kamma vote wouldn't go to Congress and a Reddy vote wouldn't go to TDP.
With just five days left for the counting of votes for the general elections across the country, major political alliances—the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the I.N.D.I.A block led by the Congress—have started making efforts to increase their tallies by approaching neutral parties.
Ambati Rayudu, who once tried to venture into active politics through the YCP but was not given a ticket, has recently sparked controversy with his outspoken behavior.
