YSR Congress party on Thursday made it clear that it would go to the next assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh on the plank of achieving special category status to the state.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has been denying of his secret understanding with the Congress party all these days, was thoroughly exposed on Thursday during the elections to the Rajya Sabbha deputy chairman post.
There is no dearth of leaders in the YSR Congress party to attack Telugu Desam Party and its president chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu politically, but nobody can match their party general secretary and Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy in using the pungent language against Naidu.
Believe it or not, the expenses incurred on Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister during his visit to Bengaluru just for a day in May this year was a whopping Rs 8.72 lakh!
All political parties have their core vote banks from different sections of society. For the Congress, it has been principally the Dalits and minorities, or the BJP, it is the RSS care and Hindutva proponents and likewise for other parties.
The next time that your son or daughter needs a driving license, they might have to shell out more than just the fee amount, if Chandrababu Naidu has his way.
Power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan seems to have learnt a lesson from his brother Chiranjeevi, who failed to sustain the Praja Rajyam Party which he had founded in 2008 with a lot of fanfare and hype.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to believe in the theory that enemy’s enemy is a friend, though the latter is also an enemy locally.
The death of doyen of Tamil Nadu politics and former chief minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday night brought to the fore an interesting debate in the social media circles in Andhra Pradesh, especially among the fan clubs of power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan.
Wisdom prevailed on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the last minute over the party’s support in the elections to Rajya Sabha deputy chairman post being held on Thursday.
The announcement made by Telugu Desam Party that it is not looking for any alliance with any party for the 2019 elections in Andhra Pradesh is being taken with a pinch of salt by the political observers in the state.
The appointment of senior Telugu Desam Party leader from Allagadda in Kurnool district A V Subba Reddy as the chairman of AP Seeds Development Corporation by party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is learnt to have upset state tourism minister Bhuma Akhila Priya.
It looks like the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is hell bent on preventing the re-entry of two expelled Congress MLAs – Komatireddy Venkat Reddy from Nalgonda and S A Sampath Kumar from Alampur into the state legislative assembly.
Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesman and Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao, who has been attracting a lot of media attention of late with his vitriolic attack on the Telugu Desam Party and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, was at receiving end for the first time on Tuesday.
Tamil actor-filmmaker turned politician Kamal Haasan on Tuesday said he had no animosity with the BJP as his newly launched Makkal Needhi Maiam was yet to take a decision on any alliance with any political grouping or a party in the country.
