The possible alliance between the Telugu Desam Party and the Congress party has generated a lot of heat and dust in Andhra Pradesh of late, with even senior TDP leaders expressing their reservations about such an alliance.
There was a criticism in the political circles during the 2014 elections that YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would not allow any of his family members to take the centre stage in the party and he should be the sole face of the party.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been playing his cards close to his chest with regard to forging an alliance with the Congress party in the state in the next elections, even as the Congress party has declared that it would go it alone in the elections.
As if confirming the ongoing talk over the early elections to Telangana state assembly, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday called for an emergency cabinet meeting.
The Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre has kept a vigil on every decision of the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and will take action against him for every misdeed.
The Telangana Congress party has accused the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of misusing public institutions and government machinery to launch election campaign for the TRS in the name of Pragati Nivedana Sabha.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who has been completely depending on the team of his advisor and political strategist Prashant Kishor for working out election strategies, is understood to have entrusted it with the task of poaching important leaders from other parties into the YSRC.
Though the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders are extremely optimistic of holding early elections to the state assembly, reports from New Delhi have indicated that the Election Commission of India is not very keen on advancing the elections in Telangana.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is eager in conducting early elections to the state assembly, but his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu is not interested and wants to continue in power till the completion of his full term.
Telugu actor Vijay Deverakonda says superstar Chiranjeevi gave him some really good advice for his career.
The Telangana Congress feels the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has been deliberately creating confusion among the people over holding early elections to the state.
Strange as it might sound, many top IAS and IPS officers, who were cherry-picked by Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu during his tenures in the past and present, have turned hostile to him after their retirement.
Industrialist-turned- Telugu Desam Party MLA from Guntur (West) Modugula Venugopala Reddy is said to be contemplating quitting the party to join the YSR Congress party sooner than later.
Now that TV9 itself has confirmed the reports that it is changing hands with original promoter of the channel Srini Raju opting out of it, there have been more and more interesting speculations over the deal.
When Nara Brahmani turned up for the business seminar of Rahul Gandhi, it was more or less seen as confirmation that TDP was gearing up for an alliance with the Congress.
