When the Congress Working Committee adopted a resolution in July 2013 in favour of bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh to carve out separate Telangana state, the party hoped that it would get tremendous mileage in 2014 assembly elections in the new state.
It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is under pressure to move to New Delhi, leaving the state in the hands of his son K T Rama Rao.
Telugu Desam Party, which has made a futile attempt to corner the Narendra Modi government by moving a no-confidence motion on the injustice meted out to Andhra Pradesh, is now trying to fix Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha deputy chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.
At a meeting to review the progress of the Bathukamma sarees ordered for the festival, KTR lost his cool when officials told him that only 30 lakh sarees were available against the target of 60 lakhs.
A Telugu newspaper carried a sensational article that Congress and TDP were in talks over possible seat-sharing arrangements for contesting the 2019 polls.
The sudden decision of senior Rayalaseema leader and former MLA Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy to join the Congress party shows his desperation to find a new lease of life in politics.
Right from the beginning, farmers of two villages – Vundavalli and Penumaka, closer to the Chennai-Vijayawada national highway have been resisting the land acquisition by the Telugu Desam Party government headed by N Chandrababu Naidu for the construction of Amaravati.
Political analysts are surprised as to why Chandrababu Naidu did not designate TDP Amalapuram MP Pandula Ravindra Babu as one of the speakers during the no-confidence motion in Parliament.
For quite some time, Telugu Desam Party led by Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of firing at him from the shoulders of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
Greatandhra.com was the first to report that Pawan Kalyan had requested for a place in the Union Cabinet and Amit Shah agreed on the condition that Pawan merge his Jana Sena with the BJP as the Jana Sena was not a recognized political entity, yet, then with no elected representatives.
These days, there is a big competition among organisations and individuals to pamper Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao by showering praises on him.
BJP leaders Daggubati Purandeswari and Sudhish Rambhotla said there was a nexus between the TDP and Congress and added that Chandrababu Naidu had gone to Delhi, a day after the no-confidence motion to thank the Congress for its support.
Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Telangana are struggling to put up a fight against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhr Rao, the comments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the debate on no-trust motion in Lok Sabha came as a rude shock for them.
The no-confidence motion moved by the Telugu Desam Party in Lok Sabha against the Narendra Modi government on Friday is believed to have brought a lot of damage to party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and hit the party’s prospects in the forthcoming assembly elections.
Plaudits are ringing in for Galla Jaydev and Rammohan Naidu from Chandrababu Naidu and other TDP leaders for the way they spoke in Parliament.
