Muhammad Bin Tughlaq was a wise man but he was impractical and because of this, his decisions had a crippling effect on the Delhi Sultanate.
YSRC party president Jagan might have kept his options open with regard to which party or alliance he is going to support in the post-2019 election scenario, but the Bharatiya Janata Party is said to be secretly lobbying for his support.
Ever since Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu parted ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party in April this year and stepped up the attack on the party in general and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular, he has been under constant counter-attack from the saffron party leaders.
Especially, leaders like Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao have been accusing him of hijacking the central schemes and misusing the central funds for his publicity programmes.
As if to counter their arguments and woo the pro-BJP sections of the society, Naidu came up with an interesting idea. On Saturday, the Naidu government wrote a letter to the Centre, requesting that the upcoming All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Mangalagiri in Amaravati region be named after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who passed away a couple of days ago.
In fact, Naidu had mooted the proposal three years ago when the AIIMS was still in the conceptual stage. It was pending with the Centre, which did not take any decision as the AIIMS did not take any shape. Even before the Centre reacted on this, Naidu quickly came up with the fresh proposal soon after the death of the veteran leader.
It may be mentioned that Naidu had a very cordial relationship with Vajpayee, since the days of N T Rama Rao. He was one of the close confidants of Vajpayee. Though he joined the NDA during the Narendra Modi regime, he did not have the same friendly relations with Modi. Now that Vajpayee died, he thought it fit to name the AIIMS after the departed leader.
This will definitely keep the BJP supporters in good humour, if not the BJP as such. It remains to be seen whether such positive decision will fetch any benefit to the TDP.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu exposed his weakness for publicity once again, as was evident from the financial assistance extended to flood-hit state of Kerala.
Strange are the ways of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The shooting of NTR, the biopic of legendary actor and former chief minister N T Rama Rao, has been going on at a brisk pace.
The Congress High Command has asked the Telangana Congress leaders to send in their estimation of the number of seats the Party is going to in in 2019.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi spent two days in Hyderabad this week, rejuvenated the party leaders and the cadre in Telangana, addressed a few meetings to attract various sections of people in Telangana and had a lively interaction with the media.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has once again sought to gain an upper hand over his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy completed his lengthy tour in West and East Godavari districts and entered Visakhapatnam.
Contrary to the speculations and expectations in the political circles in Andhra Pradesh that retired IPS officer and former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) V V Laxminarayana is most unlikely to join active politics, let alone becoming a force to reckon with in the state.
Not a single day passes without Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT minister not getting into news for wrong reasons.
In a strategic move, the Telangana Congress party is targeting the potential vote bank of 40 lakh pensioners in the next elections.
Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh Information Technology minister and son of chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, has once again become a subject of trolling in the social media for hoisting national flag atop the residence in Vundavalli in the new capital city of Amaravati on the Indian Independence Day on Wednesday.
Expelled Telangana Congress MLAs – Komatireddy Venkat Reddy from Nalgonda and S A Sampath Kumar from Alampur assembly constituencies – may not have a chance to step into the state legislative assembly again, if Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has his way.
