Strange are the ways of our political leaders. They give leaks to the media and within a few hours, they deny the same. But finally, they do what they really want to do.
The war of words in the social media and electronic media between Telugu film critic Kathi Mahesh and fans of actor-politician Pawan Kalyan has now gone to the police station.
National media channel Republic TV headed by Arnab Goswami came out with the findings of its survey on who will have the advantage if elections are held right now in Andhra Pradesh.
The conspicuous absence of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at the Samadhi of party founder and former chief minister N T Rama Rao in Hyderabad on Thursday to pay homage to the departed leader on the latter’s 22nd death anniversary, has become a matter of debate in the political and media circles.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former minister Mothkupalli Narasimhulu’s comments that the Telangana TDP should merge with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi to boost the sagging morale of the party cadre created ripples in the political circles.
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.
