Former minister D L Ravindra Reddy, who had been desperately trying to get back into active politics by joining YSR Congress party, received a rude shock on Monday, when party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy refused to entertain his request.
Rubbishing the false propaganda unleashed by vested interests by linking her name to that of a popular Telugu film hero, YSR Congress leader YS Sharmila has said that the conspiracy was hatched by people to defame her ahead of the general elections to get political mileage
With three months to go for simultaneous elections to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and the Lok Sabha, the ruling Telugu Desam Party and the main opposition YSR Congress Party are bracing for what is expected to be a keen tussle.
Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan's comments in Tenali during Sankranthi celebrations on Sunday dashed the hopes of TRS president and Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao on forging alliance between YSRCP and Jana Sena to defeat TDP in upcoming Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh in April.
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TDP president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is learnt to have come up with a new strategy to beat TRS in upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Telangana.
TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao suddenly took a decision to train his cabinet ministers on their jobs and responsibilities and how to improve their performance as and when he forms his cabinet.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday questioned J. Srinivas Rao, an accused in the knife attack on YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
NTR's biopic, the latest 'Sankranthi release' not only bombed at the box office, but also delivered a double blow to producer, actor Balakrishna and TDP chief, AP CM N.Chandrababu Naidu.
If the reports coming from Telangana Rashtra Samithi sources are to be believed, senior party leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao is going to be completely sidelined in the party.
Notwithstanding the humiliating defeat in the recent assembly elections in Telangana, the Congress leaders do not seem to have learnt a lesson and continue to crave for posts and positions.
Telugu Desam Party MLA from Sattupalli Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, who was getting ready to dump his party and take a plunge into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, is said to have received a shock from the TRS leadership.
Contrary to the talk that has been going on in the political circles for quite a long time, Telugu Desam Party will not have any alliance with the Congress party in the forthcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh.
Even as the Congress Legislature Party of the newly-elected MLAs is scheduled to meet on January 16 to elect its new leader, tension is palpable in the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has been keeping his party legislators and also the media guessing on expansion of his council of ministers.
Apparently jittery over the speed with which the National Investigation Agency has taken up the investigation into the attack on the life of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu questioned the undue interference by the Centre.
