It is celebration time for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders in Telangana, after the party’s landslide victory in the recent assembly elections.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLC from Warangal Konda Murali, who defected to the Congress party before the recent assembly elections along with his wife and former minister Konda Surekha, resigned from his post on Saturday.
Elections to Andhra Pradesh assembly and Lok Sabha are just four months away and there is a talk in political circles that the Election Commission is likely to announce the schedule for elections in the last week of February.
During Telangana statehood agitation days, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao promised to merge TRS into Congress, if Congress-led UPA government bifurcates AP and creates separate Telangana State.
Infamous for his unfulfilled promises, Chandrababu Naidu made yet another serious promise with elections round the corner: to provide SC status to converted Christians and declare December 24 as an optional holiday.
Politics is not for the weak or faint-hearted. One needs an extremely thick skin to take even the most humiliating defeat in stride and move on with a laugh.
A huge meeting of BCs was held in Hyderabad on Thursday in protest against the ordinance issued by KCR reducing the BC reservation from 34 percent to 23 percent in the soon-to-be-held Panchayati Raj polls.
As expected, chairman of Telangana state legislative council K Swamy Goud approved the merger of Telangana Congress Legislature Party in the council with Telangana Rashtra Samithi with immediate effect.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who celebrated his 47th birthday on Friday, received birthday greetings from unexpected quarters: Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Within 10 days of returning to power in the state for a second successive term, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has begun moving his pawns quickly to form a federal front at the national level.
While the TRS is still celebrating its massive recent electoral victory, Congress leaders on the other hand are keeping themselves busy Congress leaders are busy gathering evidence to file cases in the High Court and Supreme Court and prove that EVMs were tampered with to ensure victory of TRS.
The defection of Congress MLCs into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was not totally unexpected by the Congress leadership, but what shocked them was the proposal to merge the legislature party with the TRS LP.
Telangana Congress party, which has already been beaten and bruised in the just concluded assembly elections in the state, received a major shock, when four of its MLCs represented to legislative council chairman K Swamy Goud, asking for merger of their legislature party in the council with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who started the exercise to form his cabinet, has been facing a peculiar problem in finding a suitable candidate for the Speaker post in Legislative Assembly.
The announcement made by Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu that he would release the list of party candidates contesting the coming assembly elections in his state has triggered a big debate in the political circles.