Tamil and Hindi movie actor Kamal Haasan has said he feels that the sharing of taxes by the central government is discriminatory and if all the southern states celebrate Dravidianism then the discrimination may not be there.
It is a known fact that the Telangana Telugu Desam Party is in dire straits. A dozen of its MLAs and its lone MP joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
With his much-hyped film Agnyathavasi turning out to be the biggest disaster in his career, power star Pawan Kalyan is learnt to have become terribly disappointed so much so that he has stopped evincing interest in any activity, including his political activities.
Many speculations are doing rounds about director Boyapati's next movies, but the director is concentrating on his immediate film that is going to start rolling from Jan 19.
The rumours doing round in the political circles since Wednesday morning over the possible defection of former Vijayawada (Central) MLA and YSR Congress party leader Vangaveeti Radhakrishna, son of popular into the Telugu Desam Party created ripples in the YSRC.
It looks to be more or less certain that controversial film critic Mahesh Kathi is taking to politics to sustain his popularity and protect himself from the attacks of his rivals.
Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan is likely to play a key role in the next elections in Andhra Pradesh, provided he plans his programmes in a systematic manner and organises his forces.
Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh seems to have taken a leaf out of the book of his father and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in making attractive promises to the people.
The political circles in Andhra Pradesh were agog with speculations on Wednesday that senior YSR Congress party leader and prominent Kapu leader Vangaveeti Radhakrishna is all set to join the Telugu Desam Party next week.
The Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be hell bent on removal of E S L Narasimhan as the common Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states and wants a new Governor to be appointed exclusively for AP.
With firebrand MLA A Revanth Reddy from Kodangal assembly constituency in Vikarabad district shifting his loyalties from Telugu Desam Party to the Congress, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi has started working out strategies to take on the two-time MLA.
Following the reports that former minister and senior leader from Mahbubnagar Nagam Janardhan Reddy might take a plunge into the Congress party, the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have started trying to pacify him to stay back in the party.
YSR Congress party on Tuesday accused the Telugu Desam Party leaders of making money through gambling and betting, besides illegal activities in the name of cockfights, so that they could use the money in the next elections.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu told the media after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 12 that he had not discussed any politics with the latter but confined himself only to the issues pertaining to the state.
The elections to the Telangana state assembly are due in another 15 months or could be held even earlier in case the Election Commission decides to advance them. All the political parties in the state are gearing up to face the challenge.
