It was a keenly fought battle between the YSR Congress party and the Telugu Desam Party in the maiden elections to the two-year-old Kuppam municipality in Chittoor district, polling for which was held on Monday.
The Southern Zonal Council meeting held at Tirupati on Sunday amidst a lot of hype and hoopla ended up as a damp squib, as the participant states could get nothing out of the meeting despite their best efforts raise their issues.
An opposition party in Andhra Pradesh has spent a sum of Rs 1.75 Cr just to distribute among some top journalists in the district, state and national media as a Diwali gift.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is learnt to have decided to abstain from the 29th southern zonal council meeting to be held at Tirupati on Sunday.
It has been nearly three weeks since the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested six more social media activists of the YSR Congress party in connection with a case pertaining to certain derogatory posts they had made on social media against judges and the judiciary.
A war of words has ensued once again between the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Like film industry and sports, politics is also full of sentiments, blind faiths and superstitions.
Interesting as it might sound, media baron T Narendra Chowdary, chairman of popular Telugu television channel NTV, filed a civil defamation suit against a senior journalist running a news website for publishing the story that allegedly tarnished the former’s image.
Pawan Kalyan is known as the paper tiger who shouts for some time and keeps silent after the show.
Even as the nomination process for six MLC seats in Telangana and three in Andhra Pradesh under MLAs’ quota in Telangana began on Tuesday, the Election Commission announced the schedule for the conduct of 12 more MLC seats in Telangana and 11 MLC seats in Andhra Pradesh under local bodies’ quota.
With Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announcing that he would be going to Tirupati on the coming Sunday to attend the 29th Southern Zonal Council meet, speculations have started on whether he would have a one-on-one meeting with YSR Congress party chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
In an interesting development, Income Tax Commissioner Mekathoti Dayasagar, who happens to be the husband of Andhra Pradesh state home minister Mekathoti Sucharita, was transferred to Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, within 10 days of being posted in Vijayawada.
Hitherto, we have been hearing about alleged smuggling of liquor from Telangana and Karnataka into Andhra Pradesh, due to abnormal liquor prices and non-availability of popular brands in Andhra, thanks to the excise policy of the Jagan Mohan Reddy government aimed at enforcing phase-wise prohibition.
The Congress Party had witnessed a bitter feud in Punjab in recent times between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh popularly known as Captain’ and Punjab Congress Chief and ex-cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Strange are the ways of our political parties. When they are in the opposition, they make all sorts of demands to bring pressure on the ruling party.
