It is an open secret that the primary objective of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is to defeat the Telugu Desam Party in the next assembly elections and become the next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan seems to be losing his credibility among the people, especially Kapu community which he belongs to, because of his inconsistent stand on leading the political movement.
At a time when the people of entire Andhra Pradesh are seething with anger and hitting the streets with agitations over denial of special category status to the state by the Centre, the conduct of three-day Happy Cities Summit in Amaravati was like adding fuel to the fire.
Senior BJP leader Katasani Rambhupal Reddy, a five-time MLA from Panyam constituency in Kurnool district, is all set to join the YSR Congress party.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing that he would observe one-day fast in New Delhi on Thursday in protest against the disruption of Parliamentary proceedings by opposition parties.
Venkayya Naidu’s plan for filling the AP BJP with members of his community seems to have backfired for the moment.
For four years, they slept with the BJP and finally realizing that the BJP will not release any funds which will enable them to earn big size, the TDP understanding that the people of Andhra Pradesh were furious quit the central cabinet and subsequently, the NDA.
It was only on Sunday that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu told his party MPs to stay put in Delhi and continue their fight demanding special category status for Andhra Pradesh.
The decision of the YSR Congress party MPs to resign from their parliamentary membership demanding special category status to Andhra Pradesh proved to be a master stroke, but unfortunately their plan to go on indefinite fast has not been able to generate the same kind of response from the media.
If reports doing rounds in the social media circles are to be believed, a senior bureaucrat from Andhra Pradesh is learnt to have given a tip off to the NDA government at the Centre about the goings on in the TDP government in the state.
Minister for roads and buildings Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu, who has been strongly resisting the hegemony of his cabinet colleague form Visakhapatnam minister for higher education Ganta Srinivasa Rao, has been creating sleepless nights to the latter by exposing one scam or the other in the district.
Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President Venkayya Naidu expressed anguish at the fact that the Parliament proceedings in the Upper House were completely wasted for the last 30 days and opportunities to discuss people’s problems were not availed of.
'Ghaazi' director Sankalp Reddy has already begun working on his next movie, a space thriller, starring Varun Tej. An interesting dope is that the film will entirely be shot in sets created in Hyderabad.
According to ABN Andhra Jyothy, Republic TV telecast a special programme in which it analyzed that around 100 MPs from different parties might resign and force the NDA to o in for early elections.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao might be making desperate attempts to form a federal front as a third alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, but it has already turned to be a futile attempt.