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.
The forthcoming elections to gram panchayats is going to be an acid test to the legislators of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which is going all out to retain power in the next assembly elections.
Notwithstanding the court directions and big announcements by the police that they would take penal action for violating the court orders, political leaders, cutting across their political affiliations, took part in cockfights across coastal Andhra Pradesh during the three-day Sankranti festivities.
The Telangana Congress party is learnt to have virtually hijacked a proposed scheme of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi to attract farmers in the next assembly elections.
Telugu Desam Party MP from Guntur Galla Jayadev is a polished politician. In fact, he appears more like an industrialist than a hard core political leader.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had finally met Prime Minister Narendra Modi a couple of days ago and had nearly one-hour discussion.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy is preparing ground to call it quits from the BJP and join the Congress party.
After a gap of nearly one and a half years, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, amidst reports of growing gap between the TDP and its alliance partner BJP in the state.
The Janmabhoomi programme, which is supposed to be a platform to receive representations from the people on various issues of their concern and resolve them immediately, has turned out be a pastime activity for the Telugu Desam Party leaders.
Telangana home minister Nayini Narasimha Reddy is one of the few straightforward leaders in Telangana. He doesn’t mince words when he wants to say something and calls spade a spade.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is facing an existential crisis of sorts in his own state.
