Battle lines have been drawn in Telangana with the Election Commission announcing the conduct of assembly elections in the state on December 7. For the next two months, it will be the election season in the state.
The Election Commission’s order imposing several conditions on implementing the second phase of Rythu Bandhu scheme has landed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government in the state headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in a tight spot.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s aggressive attack on the Congress-Telugu Desam Party alliance has fetched him more trolling than support in the social media.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has once again decided not to attend the Dharmabad court in Maharashtra on October 15 in connection with the 2010 Babli agitation case.
If the reports coming from Amaravati are to be believed, the Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will not extend any logistic support to the Income Tax authorities who have been conducting raids on various industrialists and businessmen, besides political leaders close to the ruling Telugu Desam Party.
For the third consecutive day, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao indulged in abusive language using all sorts of filthy words against his political opponents.
Whether one agrees or not, the Telangana folk festival Bathukamma, celebrated during the Dasara Navaratri festivities, has attained national and international attention only because of Telangana Jagruthi, the cultural wing of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
The Telangana Congress party has kick-started its campaign for the ensuing state assembly elections from the famous Jogulamba temple at Alampur in Gadwal district, contrary to its traditional sentiment of Chevella in Vikarabad district.
Political criticism in Telangana has crossed all limits of decency. When chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao himself has set a new trend in abusing the political rivals in a filthy language, it is nothing but natural that the rivals also use the same language to attack him.
Of late, it has become a habit for Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to blame Prime Minister Narendra Modi for everything.
If Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has his way, Kidari Sravan Kumar, son of slain Araku MLA Kidari Sarveshwar Rao, will be inducted into the state cabinet soon.
The Telugu Desam Party is not averse to joining the Congress party-led alliance government at the Centre, if such a situation arises, after the 2019 general elections.
The cold war brewing in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi for quite some seems to have subsided, albeit for the time being, thanks to the intervention of party president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Yet another pre-poll survey conducted by popular channel Republic TV, in association with C-Voter in Andhra Pradesh has predicted a resounding victory for the YSR Congress party in the coming elections.
A special court in Hyderabad gave a rude shock to Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao on Thursday asking him to appear in person before the court in connection with his “confession” made before a television channel in June 2016.
