If there is one person in the two Telugu States who is more poisonous than a King Cobra, it has to be ABN Andhra Jyothi MD Vemuri Radhakrishna.
After the Congress party ripped out the hearts of the Andhras by dividing the State in 2014, Rayapati Samba Siva Rao, Congress MP realised he could no longer enjoy the fun in that party and climbed the ‘yellow bus’.
Lok Sabha MP from Kurnool Butta Renuka, who defected from YSR Congress party to the ruling Telugu Desam Party in October last, seems to have decided to dump the TDP, too, to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, before the next elections.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s emotional appeal to the people of the state to take the initiative in raising funds for the construction of the capital either by lending money or donating whatever they could has come under sharp criticism from the opposition parties.
For quite some time, Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh has been maintaining a very low profile with regard to fighting against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.
Senior IPS officer of Maharashtra and former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation V V Lakshminarayana, who recently applied for voluntary retirement from his service and indicated that he was likely to get into mainstream politics, is yet to decide on his political plans.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might have mastered the art of articulation when it comes to politics, but he definitely does not seem to have any knowledge about literature, history and mythology.
Notwithstanding his frequent political U-turns, alleged rank opportunism and nepotism, one cannot but agree the fact that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is a seasoned politician and commands respect from all political leaders across the country.
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India exposed the various financial tricks being resorted to by KCR for projecting Telangana as a budget surplus state.
When it comes to 'Manufacturing Consent', there is probably no one to beat the Telugu Desam Party and its media.
By initiating the move on no-confidence motion against the NDA government on special category status issue, the YSR Congress party pushed the Telugu Desam Party into the defensive and forced the ruling party to follow suit.
It is an open secret that Telugu Desam Party could come to power in Andhra Pradesh in 2014 riding on the Narendra Modi wave and that had TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu not forged a last minute alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, he would not have become the chief minister.
There is huge betting going on in the Telugu states now and it’s not on IPL but on Pawan Kalyan. Yes, you heard that right, it’s on the power star.
It has been nearly a month since the joint fact-finding committee constituted by actor-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on the financial assistance given by the Centre to Andhra Pradesh and the amount spent by the state.
Apparently realising that the comments made by Telugu Desam Party official spokesman and MLC Y Rajendra Prasad against the Telugu film industry for not responding to the people’s agitation demanding special category status to Andhra Pradesh has angered the film personalities, party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to pamper the industry.
