Even as almost all the newspapers and channels reported that Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu had gone to the US last week for a medical check-up, an image of him walking in the streets of Singapore surfaced on social media in the last two days.
Electioneering ended in Andhra Pradesh and polling was held on May 13. The fate of the political parties aspiring for power has been sealed in the electronic voting machines (EVMs). So, there is no way any political party can gain any political mileage for now, as the people have already given their mandate.
The Election Commission of India late on Wednesday night suspended all the polling officials who were present at the Palwai Gate Polling Station in Macherla constituency, where YSR Congress party MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy destroyed the EVM and VVPAT machine on the polling day of May 13.
Macherla YSRCP incumbent MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy and his brother Venkatarami Reddy who have been on the run after video of them destroying an EVM machine at a polling booth went viral, were arrested in a joint operation of AP and Telangana police near Sangareddy on Wednesday, May 22,
During the recent assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress Party president and Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy campaigned with the slogan
With mock drills and flag marches, Andhra Pradesh Police are gearing up to maintain peace and law and order during and after the counting of votes.
YSR Congress Party leader and candidate for the Pithapuram assembly constituency, Vanga Geetha, has been making strange comments ever since the polling was held on May 13.
The video of YSR Congress party MLA from Macherla Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy ransacking the electronic voting machine and the VVPAT machine at one of the polling stations in the constituency has pushed not only the Andhra Pradesh police machinery, but also the chief electoral officer, into an embarrassing situation.
The elections are over, and now it's all about betting until the results are out on June 4th.
It has been more than a week since the polling for the assembly and Lok Sabha elections were held in Andhra Pradesh, and there are still another 12 days to go before the counting of votes will determine who will come to power in the state.
Senior IPS officer and former intelligence chief of Andhra Pradesh during the previous Telugu Desam Party regime A B Venkateshwara Rao may have to retire without doing his job even for a single day in the last five years.
Senior YSR Congress Party leader and Andhra Pradesh Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana is known for his blunt and assertive statements. Sometimes, his forthrightness has caused embarrassment to the party, but he remains unapologetic in his style.
The 150-page report submitted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Andhra Pradesh police, constituted on the directions of the Election Commission, is believed to have nailed the Telugu Desam Party leaders for their role in the post-poll violence, more than the YSRCP leaders.
Andhra Pradesh, which witnessed several violent incidents in different parts on the day of polling on May 13 and also for a couple of days more after polling during the just concluded elections, is facing the threat of more violence on the day of counting on June 4 as well.
Do you know who is the most viral troll-video on the internet after the election season in Andhra Pradesh? He is Vuyyuru Lokesh, also known as Tulluru Lokesh.