For the last few days, the YSR Congress party leaders, particularly those who have defected from the Telugu Desam Party, are taking the name of Junior NTR while attacking the TDP leadership, particularly party president N Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh.
It is an open secret that Jana Sena Party president and actor Pawan Kalyan has been following the line of Telugu Desam Party led by N Chandrababu Naidu in attacking the YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, though he has been trying to project himself as an independent leader.
A couple of days ago, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu made a surprising appearance in the ashram of Chinna Jeeyar Swamy at Muchintal near Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
With Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan firm on leaving the TDP, the leadership is desperately looking for a replacement in Gannavaram Assembly constituency.
Ever since senior journalist Devulapalli Amar took over as the advisor to Andhra Pradesh government on national media and inter-state affairs, there has been no clarity as to what his role is.
A cold war of sorts is brewing among the IAS officers in Andhra Pradesh these days, creating an embarrassing situation for chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
V Ravi Prakash, former chief executive officer of popular Telugu television channel TV9, who is presently facing several cases for allegedly indulging in cheating, forgery and siphoning of money from the Associated Broadcasting Company Ltd, the parent organisation of TV9, is said to be virtually in deep trouble following exposure of another scandal.
Even as the Telangana cabinet is meeting on Saturday to discuss the RTC issue, everybody is waiting curiously as to what decision Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would be taking with regard to the fate of state road transport corporation and 48,000-odd employees associated with it.
Sometime in January 2018, power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan got a royal treatment at Pragati Bhavan, the official residence of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu seems to have lost his hope on Gannavaram MLA Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan, as all his attempts to prevail upon him to stay back in the party have failed.
It is more or less certain that Gannavaram MLA Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan, who resigned from the primary membership of Telugu Desam Party and also his assembly membership, is going to join the YSR Congress party.
There have been reports doing rounds in the media circles that power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan would take only “liquid diet” (don’t mistake him; it’s only water) for the entire month of Karthikam that commenced on Monday.
Not long ago, former Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal, who had earned the sobriquet of ‘Andhra Octopus’ for near accurate pre-poll predictions in the past, announced that he would henceforth abstain from conducting exit polls.
Former chief minister and TDP president Chandrababu Naidu is now the Leader of Opposition (LoP) with 23 MLAs for the party.
Former chief executive officer of popular television channel TV9 V Ravi Prakash has been in jail in connection with various cases for cheating the new management of the channel, but his team is very actively working behind the screen to malign the channel.
