If the reports coming from New Delhi are to be believed, elections to the Andhra Pradesh assembly might be held in the third or fourth week of March.
The constituency, which was originally in Medak district, has witnessed election of several MLAs in the past, including B Sanjeeva Rao, J Geetha Reddy, G Vijaya Rama Rao and T Narsa Reddy in the last several years.
The Congress party released its second list with 10 candidates for the ensuing Telangana assembly elections, but senior Congress leader and former Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah did not find his name even in the second list.
The main opposition Congress in Telangana on Wednesday released its second list of 10 candidates for the state assembly polls on December 7, re-nominating seven candidates who had lost in 2014.
Jana Sena which is promising to revolutionise politics seems to be going the way of all other political parties with internal squabbles and ‘commission culture’.
As expected, the announcement of the first list of 65 candidates by the Congress for the Telangana assembly elections triggered unrest in the aspirants who were denied tickets.
After initial no, it was yes and then, finally it ended up as no. This was the position as regards the contest of popular actress and former MP Vijayashanti.
Telangana Jana Samithi president Prof M Kodandaram, who has compromised on the number of seats allotted to his party as part of seat sharing in Maha Kootami, had to make yet another sacrifice for the big brother, the Congress party.
YSR Congress leaders and MPs on Monday met President Ramnath Kovind and submitted a memorandum seeking his intervention for ordering a judicial inquiry or a central agency investigation as the State Government has been trying to dilute October 25 attack on Leader of Opposition YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at Vizag airport.
A day after suggesting that the Bharatiya Janata Party may be dangerous because the Opposition thinks so, superstar Rajinikanth has clarified that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is actually stronger than the opposition combined.
The Congress Party is taking absolutely no chances given the tense atmosphere prevailing regarding the allocation of tickets.
Every electronic voting machine will have a ballot paper stuck on it with names of contestants and the elections symbols allotted to them, so that the voter could identify his favourite candidate with the help of the symbol and pressure the button opposite to it.
It is now official. Janipalli Srinivas, who made an attempt on the life of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy with a sharp knife at Visakhapatnam airport on October 25, did not have permission to enter into the airport longue.
People who would be participating in the marathon padayatra of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would be missing a big opportunity hereafter: taking selfies with the leader.
The process for conducting elections to the Telangana assembly began on Monday with the issuance of an official gazette notification by the Election Commission authorities and the filing of nominations has commenced at 11 am.
