The Congress will not only return to power in Karnataka but will also end up improving its tally in the 224-member Legislative Assembly, a pre-poll survey conducted by C-Fore predicted.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has won the last general elections with a thumping majority in 2014. Apart from winning the state assembly elections and forming government in the Centre, the TRS also won 11 Lok Sabha seats.
Actor-turned-Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan has been attacking Telugu Desam Party and its president N Chandrababu Naidu since his public meeting at Guntur on March 14. He has described Naidu as the most inefficient ruler and his son Lokesh as the corrupt person.
At a time when Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu openly accusing the YSR Congress party of entering into a secret nexus with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the YSRC leaders are yet to learn the tactics of countering such allegations.
The National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre might consider granting of special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
Within a few hours after receiving a stinging letter from Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu described that letter was "full of false information which reveals BJP's attitude.”
The Saturday’s letter written by Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah to Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might have been viewed by many as a slap on the latter’s face, but at the same time, it also amounts to insulting the agitation of the people of the state.
The just concluded Rajya Sabha elections in Telangana have clearly showed the blatant partiality shown by the Election Commission of India towards ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Now that the Telugu Desam Party has come out of the National Democratic Alliance completely, the Bharatiya Janata Party is too cutting off all its links with the TDP one after the other.
As expected, ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi successfully bagged all the three Rajya Sabha seats from the state, elections for which were held on Friday. The counting took place an hour later.
YSR Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy on Friday announced that he would give privilege notice to Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for using derogatory words against the Prime Minister’s Office.
The sensational plot – Operation Garuda, revealed by Tollywood actor – of a national party to destabilise the government in Andhra Pradesh with the help of a popular regional party and a newly formed political party so as gain foothold in the south – was quite interesting but hardly has any takers.
Tollywood actor sensational revelation in Vijayawada on Thursday on a possible conspiracy by a national party to pull down the present Telugu Desam Party government by September this year, appeared to be far from convincing.
The Congress party in Telangana seems to be adopting the same strategy which its Central leadership is planning, in the next general and assembly elections.
Even as Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been attacking the National Democratic Alliance government with strongest words every day, his party’s two erstwhile Central ministers P Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y S Chowdary (alias Sujana Chowdary) still seem to be interested in continuing good relations with the Centre.
