Chandrababu is powerless now. Neither he is the Chief Minister of any state nor he is a strong opponent to the ruling party with a good number of MLAs on his side. But still he has shown his power in a way.
The YSRCP government has planned to conduct the Assembly sessions for just two days and close the season.
The shocking phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh right now is that the opposition parties are so weak to imagine.
The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on Nov 10 on three different groups at 30 different premises in Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam.
If the speculations doing rounds in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi circles are to be believed, party president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha is most likely to be nominated to Rajya Sabha shortly.
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.
