
The digital revolution has thrown up a new brand of mercenaries who lend their services to political parties and help them come to power.

It looks like former minister and senior Telangana political leader Mothkupalli Narasimhulu is getting frustrated over the failure of his attempts to get back into active politics.

Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has swindled central funds to the tune of Rs 53,000 crore, according to the allegations levelled by Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesman and Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao.

If the Hyderabad high court has its way, two Congress MLAs – Komatireddy Venkat Reddy from Nalgonda and S A Sampath Kumar from Alampur, who were expelled from their seats during the budget session of the assembly in March this year, will get back their posts by next week.

The TDP cabinet has cleared the decks for raising Rs 2,000 crore through the Bombay Stock Exchange’s electronic bidding platform at a coupon rate of 10.32% payable quarterly with a basic issue size of Rs. 1,300 crore and a green shoe option of Rs 700 crore for funding the construction of Capital city Amaravati.

YSR Congress party on Saturday accused Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of shielding the corrupt illegal stone quarry operators, who were responsible for the Friday night’s quarry blast at Aluru in Kurnool district.

It has been a long time since one has seen Telugu Desam Party MP from Narsaraopet Rayapati Sambasiva Rao being actively involved in the party politics.

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday evening in the name of discussing several pending issues of the state raised many eyebrows.

When KCR went to Delhi for Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, Sonia Gandhi arrived and KCR stood up and greeted her.

Formation of separate Telangana was the most emotional issue in 2014 elections and the people voted for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi to power only because it was a purely Telangana party which has no interest in any other state, though it was the Congress party which had granted the statehood.

A delegation of TDP MPs led by CM Ramesh met Vice-President Venkayya Naidu and asked him to put pressure on the Centre to allow a steel plant at Kadapa.

Narendra Modi said that Chandrababu Naidu had walked into Jagan’s trap over the SCS issue when he severed ties with the BJP.

Both KCR and KTR at separate interactions with the media raised the same point: Congress lost the municipal elections in Amethi, Rahul Gandhi’s home constituency.

Telugu Desam Party chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might be claiming himself to be a master strategist and thinking he is pushing the Bharatiya Janata Party to corner, but there is one person in the BJP who has become a thorn in his flesh and is giving him sleepless nights.

Tightening the noose around the family of veteran Telangana leader and Rajya Sabha member D Srinivas, the Nizamabad police on Friday filed a case against his son and former Nizamabad mayor D Sanjay under Nirbhaya Act