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.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Vizianagaram MP P Ashok Gajapathi Raju is a seasoned politician.
Telangana Congress party has accused Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of bulldozing several bills in the assembly session with brute majority after getting the opposition party MLAs suspended.
Following the withdrawal of the Telugu Desam Party from the National Democratic Alliance on the pretext of denying adequate assistance to the state, TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought to play with the emotions of the people and turn them against the Centre.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao appears to have not lost hope on forming a non-Congress and non-Bharatiya Janata Party political alternative at the national level, notwithstanding the fact that there has not been much response to his proposal.
V V Lakshminarayana, former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation, who applied for voluntary retirement from his service, has already hinted at joining politics.
Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan wants to make it big in politics, but he certainly doesn’t know the art of politics.
Amidst intense war of words between the Telugu Desam Party and Bharatiya Janata Party following the break-up of alliance between the two parties over Special Category Status and other issues, BJP’s Andhra Pradesh unit chief Kambhampati Hari Babu has quietly left on a summer vacation to Geneva.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s proposal for formation of a federal front might not have many takers, but it has certainly attracted one person -- popular South Indian film actor Prakash Raj.
Is Pawan Kalyan going to repeat what he did during 2014 AP general elections in Karnataka now? As is known, Karnataka legislative assembly elections are scheduled for May 12, 2018.
The launch of “NTR,” the biopic on legendary actor and former chief minister N T Rama Rao, at Ramakrishna cine studios at Nacharam witnessed a galaxy of VIPs including Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu, veteran director Raghavendra Rao, former Rajya Sabha member Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad, music director M M Keeravani and others.
With the Election Commission sounding bugle for the assembly elections in Karnataka in May, all eyes are now on what mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy would do.
