Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has been playing hide and seek for the last few days over the demand for Special Category Status to AP, came out in the open on Thursday.
When eldest brother from mega family Chiranjeevi launched his political party Praja Rajyam, he used depend heavily on Eenadu reporter Kurasala Kannababu (elder brother of film director Kalyan Krishna) for political advices.
The demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh has been gaining momentum across the state with all the political parties and people’s organisations making it a sentimental issue for the people.
Senior leader and former minister in the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet in the combined Andhra Pradesh Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who had been maintaining silence over his political journey for quite some time, quietly joined the Congress party a couple of days ago.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who never made any attempt to secure special category status to Andhra Pradesh and instead, compromised on the special financial package, has now started singing the special category status tune, albeit in a low tone.
The hot topic in Andhra politics these days is the possible alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the YSR Congress party in the 2019 elections.
Senior Tamil Nadu film star Kamal Haasan, who is going to launch his new political party later in the night at Madurai, started off on a wrong note by declaring that Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is his hero.
Ever since Union finance minister Arun Jaitely presented the central budget for 2018-19 in Parliament on February 1, every political leader in Andhra Pradesh, including the cabinet ministers in Chandrababu Naidu government reacted at some point or the other, criticising the Centre for doing injustice to the state.
In yet another bold decision, YSR Congress party declared that it would move the no-confidence motion against the NDA government on March 21 demanding Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh, without waiting for the support of any other party.
Former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy had a strong sentiment for Chevella town in Ranga Reddy district.
As the elections to the state assembly are fast approaching, the ruling Telugu Desam Party and the opposition YSR Congress party have started playing the mind game to gain psychological edge over each other.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party is fretting and fuming against the Centre over injustice done to the state, the NDA government has started throwing the ball into the court of chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
YSR Congress party on Tuesday took exception to actor and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan for challenging its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, rather than Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, on moving no-confidence motion against the NDA government on the injustice meted out to AP by the Centre.
Within 24 hours of announcing that he would conduct an all-party meeting on the raw deal meted out to Andhra Pradesh in the Central budget and lack of implementation of promises made in AP Reorganisation Act, Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu changed his tune.
The Andhra Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to pay the Telugu Desam Party in its own coin in the forthcoming budget session of the state assembly.
