Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s indifference attitude in holding elections to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has cost the city flow of funds from the centre.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues in the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to fool the Telugu Desam Party MPs in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, but YSR Congress MPs successfully avoided falling into their trap.
There is a saying in typical Hyderabad conversations: “Aakhir Sheik Abdullah kya bolta hai?” (After all, what does Sheik Abdulla want to say?). This saying is used when people do not make out any head or tail what the other person is talking about.
When there was a message from Jana Sena Party office to all the media houses that party president and actor Pawan Kalyan would like to address a press conference in the evening, it triggered a lot of speculations in the media.
It looks like political parties are trying to satisfy themselves and get a morale booster by getting people’s surveys done in their favour, since it is difficult to read the actual pulse of the people.
MPs from Andhra Pradesh continued to stall Parliament for the third consecutive day on Wednesday and they raised their pitch as Prime Minister Narendra Modi started to speak on the motion of thanks to President’s speech in Lok Sabha.
The ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh has virtually “managed” the Centre to get a statement from the Centre in Parliament on the implementation of promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act so as to appease the agitated people of the state and also outwit the opposition parties.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s main condition for continuing the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party is not fulfilling the promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act, but is that the Centre should not entertain YSR Congress party and its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
The agitation by the MPs belonging to Andhra Pradesh, including that of the TDP and YSR Congress party, besides Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao, in the last two days seems have forced the Centre to go into the defensive mode.
Telugu Desam Party MPs have started lobbying with the NDA government to get at least some benefits in the budget for the state as a face saving measure, but it looks like the response from the Centre is very cold.
Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy is known for calling a spade a spade and does not mince words even he wants to speak against his own party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Amidst widening gap between the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union minister of state for science and technology Y S Chowdary alias Sujana Chowdary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament to convey the growing resentment among the people over the injustice done to Andhra Pradesh in the budget.
Does Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu have a different strategy in not pulling out of the NDA immediately?
At last, the Centre has decided to put the proposal to increase the number of assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on the backburner, for the simple reason that it does not help the Bharatiya Janata Party in any way.
When Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh was fumbling while addressing party workers or general public in the initial days of becoming a minister in his father N Chandrababu Naidu’s cabinet last year, his rivals used to make fun of him.
