There is a need to address the dominant presence of the Kamma and Reddy social classes in Telugu politics.
The eagerness which Bharatiya Janata Party national leadership is showing to have an alliance with the Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan in Telangana for the upcoming elections has not gone down well with the local BJP leaders.
It seems like a certain level of overconfidence and audacity is masking some party heads before the elections. Their remarks echo in a similar vein.
A latest video clip showing political strategist Prashant Kishor making some comments, supposedly directed at the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government, has triggered a debate in the political and media circles.
Senior Backward Classes leader Kasani Gyaneshwar, who resigned as the president of Telugu Desam Party (TDP)’s Telangana unit and also primary membership of the party, is most probably going to join the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
When Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was in Rajahmundry central jail for 52 days in connection with the skill development corporation scam, several senior TDP leaders used to meet him during Mulaqat.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been granted conditional bail by the state high court only on health grounds.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and his wife Sara are now divorced, it was learnt from the poll affidavit.
The TDP members lost hope in Chandrababu's bail prospects after learning of the Supreme Court's shocking ruling in the case involving former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's liquor policy.
Andhra Pradesh former chief minister and TDP president N Chandrababu proved that his own community is mightier than TDP.
It is a known fact that certain Telugu television channels like ETV, TV-5 and ABN-Andhra Jyothy are known for their blatant bias towards the Telugu Desam Party and carrying anti-Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy propaganda day in and day out.
The Bharatiya Janata Party national leadership, which has turned a blind eye to the Jana Sena Party headed by Pawan Kalyan’s attempts to forge an alliance with the Telugu Desam Party in Andhra, is showing unusual interest in having an alliance with his party in Telangana.
The announcement made by Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted to power in Telangana, it would make a leader from Backward Classes (BC) community as the chief minister of the state.
The last-minute entry of former MLA from Munugode Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy into the Congress party, while the party high command has almost finalised the second list of candidates for the Telangana assembly polls, is said to have become a big headache for Pradesh Congress Committee president A Revanth Reddy.
The meeting of Jana Sena Party president and power star Pawan Kalyan with Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Wednesday night has given a lot of clarity to the Telugu Desam Party leadership that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not interested in any kind of understanding with it – either in Telangana or in Andhra.
