In a biggest somersault of sorts in a span of 10 hours, Telangana Congress manifesto committee chairman Damodar Raja Narasimha’s wife Padmini Reddy, who quit the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday afternoon, returned to the Congress by evening.
In a rude shock to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and its president chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday ordered the conduct of panchayat raj elections within three months.
In what can be considered a big shock to the Congress party in Telangana, C Padmini Reddy, wife of former deputy chief minister and senior Congress leader Damodar Raja Narasimha, resigned from the party on Thursday.
After a lot of dilly dallying and brainstorming with his followers, former assembly speaker and senior Congress leader Nadendla Manohar on Thursday called it quits to the party and is all set to join the Jana Sena Party floated by power star Pawan Kalyan.
In the last 10 days, two newspapers have quietly entered the markets of both the Telugu states.
The 48-hour deadline fixed by Telangana Jana Samithi president Prof M Kodandaram to the Congress party to decide the seat sharing among the allies has baffled political pundits in Telangana.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee has alleged that the election authorities have failed to implement the Model Code of Conduct across the Telangana State.
Everybody knows power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan was one of the richest actors in Tollywood. He and his brother Chiranjeevi had virtually ruled the film industry earning crores of rupees.
With the Election Commission sounding the poll bugle for the early elections to the Telangana assembly on December 7, the election survey agencies have plunged into action to know the people’s pulse.
It looks like the Telangana Congress Committee is learnt to have given a go by the condition set by the All India Congress Committee that only one member from one family would be given the party ticket for the assembly elections.
In a sign that could spell trouble for Mahakutami, comprising Congress, TDP, TJS and CPI, the Telangana Congress Election Coordination Committee which met here on Tuesday saw some of its members demanding vociferously that the Congress should contest at least 100 assembly seats and leave only 19 segments for its ‘grand alliance’ partners.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been trying to play the Telangana sentiment card once again by attacking the Congress-Telugu Desam Party combine, has once again proved that he is a master in maintaining double standards.
Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) president Prof M Kodandaram, who spearheaded the movement for separate Telangana movement single-handedly, seems to be vexed with the hegemonic attitude of the Congress party in the seat-sharing for forming a grand alliance to fight the coming elections.
For the last few days, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi has changed its strategy of attacking only the Congress party. Instead, it is now targeting the Telugu Desam Party, particularly its president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
One does not know how much politicking power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan has learnt during his four-year long association with Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
