Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has no intention of pulling his party out of the NDA in the near future, but will continue to enact the drama that he is fighting for the rights of the state.
Why didn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi make any major allocations to Andhra Pradesh in the just presented Union budget in the Parliament?
Why did Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who was expected to announce a decision on parting ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party, suddenly mellow down on Sunday?
Nothing unusual has happened and heavens did not fall, as projected by the pro-Telugu Desam Party media.
All these days, the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Telangana were in a state of utter confusion as to how they should deal with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the state – as a friendly party or as an enemy.
At a time when YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has been sweating it out on the streets with his marathon padayatra to bring the party to power in the next elections, some of his party MLAs are quietly lobbying with Telugu Desam Party leaders in their constituencies.
In the last few months, Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh minister for panchayat raj, rural development and IT Nara Lokesh won as many as 19 awards, including the prestigious Kalam Innovation in Governance Award-2018 (KIGA) from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Centre in New Delhi last month.
In a strange development, the Bharatiya Janata Party high command on Saturday announced continuation of Visakhapatnam MP Kambhampati Hari Babu as the president of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.
The YSR Congress party on Friday accused Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of enacting high dramas with regard to protesting against Centre for the injustice meted out to the state in the Central budget.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is gradually inching towards capturing power in Andhra Pradesh in the next elections, according to the results of the online poll conducted by Greatandhra.com on his padayatra.
Andhra Pradesh endowments minister P Manikyala Rao is a member of the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet. Therefore, he is bound by the collective responsibility of the council of ministers. Whatever he says, it is construed as the opinion of the entire cabinet.
At a time when the political leaders and people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are fuming at the Centre for doing gross injustice to both the Telugu states in the Union budget introduced on Thursday, one man who is expecting to change the politics of the states has not uttered a single word so far.
The disproportionate assets and money laundering case filed by Enforcement Directorate against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seems to be fizzling out as one after the other is getting the relaxation from the court.
At a time when every Telugu Desam Party MP and minister is bringing pressure on party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to break the alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party, finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu seems to be opposed to the idea.
The YSR Congress party leadership is said to be in second thoughts over forging alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next general elections scheduled to be held in April/May, 2019.
