The Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, which is virtually on the death bed, is making a desperate attempt to get some life before the 2019 elections.
The Telangana Congress party has accused chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi of indirectly helping the Bharatiya Janata Party with the sole intention of preventing the Congress from coming to power in the state.
It is now more or less certain that former minister and senior leader from Nellore Anam Ramnarayana Reddy is all set to quit the Telugu Desam Party.
It is an open secret that KCR has a tacit understanding with the BJP. And it is this pact which gives rise to the assumption that the BJP will not call for early polls in 2019. The reason is KCR’s focus on the Sarpanch elections.
The faithful lackey of Chandrababu Naidu, ABN Radhakrishna has been going hammer and tongs at the BJP ever since the TDP quit the NDA.
The tremendous response from the people to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s padayatra, which entered Rajahmundry in East Godavari district on Tuesday, has certainly caused tremors in the Telugu Desam Party, if not for the Rajahmundry road-cum-rail bridge.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, described the fitness video he put out on Twitter as "bizarre" and "ridiculous".
Finally, the NDA government at the Centre dampened the spirits of both the Telugu states with regard to setting up of steel plants at Bayyam in Khammam district of Telangana and at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.
YSR Congress party leader and Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy on Wednesday reiterated his allegation that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had plundered the wealth of Tirumala temple.
When Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi just before the budget session of Parliament this year, he submitted a long wish list to the PM.
The other day, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary P Muralidhar Rao sounded a warning to the party cadres in Andhra Pradesh not to underestimate Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams on Wednesday issued legal notices to retired head priest A V Ramana Deekshitulu and also YSR Congress president V Vijay Sai Reddy asking for an explanation for their wild allegations against the TTD and the Andhra Pradesh government.
Perhaps, there is no newspaper in the world that openly declares its stance as being opposed to one particular political party.
A plot seems to be underway to plant seeds of dissension in the BJP ahead of the 2019 polls by both NDA partners and opposition parties alike.
The sudden shower of affection and concern towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from the Telugu Desam Party in the recent past has surprised many.
