It is more or less confirmed that popular political strategist and founder of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) Prashant Kishor is being engaged by Telugu Desam Party headed by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the upcoming assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
In the past few years, the BRS party has shown interest in various active small-time media channels on YouTube, acquiring them in the process.
It appears YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister is obsessed with appeasing backward classes, thinking that they would be the backbone of his party in the upcoming elections.
The female firebrand and YCP minister also has no chance of securing the ticket this time, according to trusted sources within the party.
YSR Telangana Party president Y S Sharmila, who had been reluctant to take up the offer made by Congress high command to take charge of the party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, is most likely to accept the offer at last.
Newly-appointed chief minister of Telangana A Revanth Reddy, who took charge only last week, is expected to visit the temple of Goddess Kanaka Durga on Indrakeeladri Hills in Vijayawada sometime this week.
The way YSR Congress party leaders accorded big welcome to Telangana information and public relations minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy when he came to Vijayawada on Monday surprised many people.
For the last few months, there have been speculations in the media circles that popular political strategist Prashant Kishor might be roped in by Telugu Desam Party headed by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the upcoming assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
In a sudden and swift development, senior YSR Congress party leader and Mangalagiri MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy resigned from his assembly membership and the party.
Media and politics are intertwined in Telugu politics, and this is an accepted phenomenon.
It appears that the new Secretariat building constructed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has turned out to be a bad omen for him.
Acting swiftly within two days of taking over as the new chief minister of Telangana, A Revanth Reddy on Saturday sacked several advisors appointed by the previous K Chandrasekhar Rao government for various departments.
A statement made by Union minister for tourism and Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president G Kishan Reddy that the Congress government in the state led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy might collapse anytime has lent credence to the suspicions that the saffron party might begin attempts soon to topple the democratically-elected Congress government.
The just concluded elections to the Telangana state assembly have witnessed mushrooming of several social media channels and digital media platforms, taking advantage of the craze among the political parties towards them.
Though it became apparent shortly after the assembly election results in Telangana that Pradesh Congress Committee president A Revanth Reddy was the frontrunner for the chief minister post, there were efforts to prevent him from securing the coveted position until the last moment.
