The YSR Congress party would not have any alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party or for that matter any other party in Andhra Pradesh during the 2019 assembly and parliamentary elections.
The hue and cry raised by power star and Jana Sena Party over the lack of security for him during his Jana Porata Yatra has been brushed aside by Andhra Pradesh police.
Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony at Vidhana Soudha may have seen a galaxy of non-BJP leaders, but not all guests seemed happy on the occasion. Among them was West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has lost a big opportunity by not attending the swearing-in ceremony of Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy as the new chief minister of Karnataka at Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Telangana Jana Samiti president Prof M Kodandaram on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a hung assembly situation in Telangana in 2019 elections as has happened in Karnataka in the recent elections.
The swearing-in ceremony of Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy as the new chief minister of Karnataka might be a big news for the media, but it was Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu who hogged the limelight on Wednesday.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu knows how to face bouncers from media and avoid answers to their embarrassing questions.
It was only a month ago that he had returned his security personnel provided to him by the Andhra Pradesh government on the suspicion that the ruling Telugu Desam Party was using the security men as spying agents.
In what can be called height of political allegations, YSR Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy on Wednesday made sensational comments stating that the missing jewellery of Lord Venkateshwara in Tirumala can be recovered from the cupboards of Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
At last, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao acknowledged that Congress MLA from Nalgonda Komatireddy Venkat Reddy is a member of the state assembly.
Taking the oath of office on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha may be a grand spectacle but it has brought doom too, according to a report in Deccan Herald.
With Karnataka going to the polls ahead of other states, then vice-president of AICC Rahul Gandhi handpicked a young team comprising KC Venugopal, Manickam Tagore, PC Vishnunath and Madhu Yashki Goud as secretaries.
For the last few days, power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan has been going aggressively with his political moves, creating an impression that he is now a serious politician and not a part-time politician, an impression which he had got in the past.
If the reports coming from the corridors of power in Amaravati are to be believed, the Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has decided to file civil and criminal defamation cases against retired head priest of Tirumala temple A V Ramana Deekhsitulu for making wild allegations against the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and the state government.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is a shrewd politician, who can change his strategies depending on his political exigencies.