With elections to Andhra Pradesh assembly less than three months way, it is time for reverse migration of Telugu Desam Party legislators into the YSR Congress party, which fancies more chances of coming to power.
The Congress party has accused Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of trying to bring about a patch-up between YSR Congress party and Jana Sena Party for his selfish politics.
YSRCP's 'Ninnu Nammam Babu' (We don't trust you, Babu) campaign to highlight the failures of TDP government in Andhra Pradesh led by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the past five years turned out to be a stunning success across AP.
YSR Congress party president and leader of opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is fast gearing up to face the upcoming assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
Soon after TRS sweeping Assembly polls in Telangana on December 11, 2018, TRS president and Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao warned TDP president and AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu that he will give 'return' gift to Naidu for giving him a 'gift' in Telangana by forging Mahakutami with TDP and Congress to defeat TRS in Assembly polls.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu does not react much when any leader from his political party defects to the rival political party – whether it is YSR Congress party or the Bharatiya Janata Party or even Jana Sena Party.
Not long ago, actor-turned-Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan made a tall claim that he would like to represent backward Rayalaseema in the state assembly.
Apparently realising that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been desperately making attempts to attract Backward Classes with a series of sops, YSR Congress party quickly jumped into action and decided to launch a counter-offensive.
Amarvathi farmers who handed over their fertile lands believing TDP chief and AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu for construction of AP's new capital city Amaravathi, are now feeling cheated.
Jana Sena Party president and actor Pawan Kalyan, who has been in a state of confusion as to how to go about in the ensuing general elections to Andhra Pradesh assembly and Lok Sabha, is said to have got a thorough brainwashing from Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Daredevil police officer Gorantla Madhav, who resigned from his post of circle inspector of Kadiri police station in Anantapur is most likely to the YSR Congress party candidate from Hindupur Lok Sabha constituency.
With Meda Mallikarjun Reddy, sitting Telugu Desam Party MLA from Rajampet in Kadapa district, quitting the party and joining the YSR Congress party, there is an intense competition for the TDP ticket from the constituency.
The Jayaho BC convention being held by Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at Rajahmundry on Sunday is being viewed as a desperate attempt by Naidu to regain the confidence of the BCs, who are said to have distanced from the party in the last four and a half years.
Following reports that senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh minister for higher education Ganta Srinivasa Rao is indicating that he might shift loyalties to Jana Sena Party, the party cadre in Visakhapatnam are bringing pressure on party president Pawan Kalyan not to reciprocate his feelers.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to contest the ensuing Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, as part of his strategy to make it big at the national level in the coming days.