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.
It has been a common practise for the Income Tax authorities or ACB authorities to conduct raids and take up searches in the houses and offices of big people whenever they get authentic information.
After keeping the media guessing for the last several months over his future course of action, former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation V V Lakshminarayana has finally announced that he would soon enter politics.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to have decided to pay his Andhra Pradesh counterpart and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu in his own coin.
The election atmosphere in Telangana is hotting up gradually with the Election Commission announcing the schedule for the state assembly elections.
It looks like Telangana Jana Samithi president Prof M Kodandaram has succumbed to the pressures of the Congress party and agreed to scale down from his demand for more seats as part of grand alliance.
Senior Congress leader and former MLA from Gadwal on Monday moved the Hyderabad high court questioning the dissolution of the Telangana assembly by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government on September 6, nine months ahead of the completion of its term.
Controversial spiritual leader and Sree Peetham seer Swami Paripoornanand is most likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party and might even contest the coming elections as well, if one were to go by the indications from New Delhi.
If the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is banking on its unique scheme Rythu Bandhu to attract the votes of farmers, the Telangana Congress party is planning to attract them with the promise of enhancing minimum support price.
Jana Sena Party chief and power star Pawan Kalyan, who has been making blistering attacks on the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh for the last few months, is taking up “deeksha” on the occasion of Dasara Navratri celebrations.
