The happy days of Bhuma Akhila Priya, youngest minister in Chandrababu Naidu cabinet holding tourism portfolio, in Telugu Desam Party seem to be over now.
It looks like Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu have developed a lot of affinity for spiritual gurus to promote their respective political images in the public.
Hitherto, TDP president and AP chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had been targeting the NDA government at the Centre in general and BJP in particular for doing injustice to the state in terms of denial of special category status and also non-implementation of promises made in AP Reorganisation Act.
After waging a relentless battle to achieve reservations for Kapus in education and employment, former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham has only one-point agenda before him now: ensure the defeat of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhdra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in 2019 elections.
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.
