YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has realised that it is now or never battle for him to come to power in 2019 elections. So, he is not leaving any stone unturned and making all kinds of promises to people.
Call it ignorance or a deliberate move, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has missed out some important people in inviting to the World Telugu Conference which kicked off in a grand way in Hyderabad on Friday.
The Chandrababu Naidu government, which has been giving a lot of hype to the designs of government buildings in Amaravati, the new capital city, is surprisingly silent on the mobilisation of funds for the constructions.
It looks like rebel brothers of Nalgonda district – MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and MLC Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy – have decided to stay put in the Congress party.
With the Congress party in Telangana going all out regain its hold in the state politics, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leadership is said to be planning to lure as many as Congress leaders as possible into the party.
While Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu running from pillar to post in the centre for securing adequate funds and support for the completion of the prestigious Polavaram project, the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders back home are trying to needle him and provoke him with a view to get rid of the TDP from the NDA.
The fifth World Telugu Conference, the first one in the newly formed Telangana state, which began on Friday turned out to be just a show of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Telugu Desam Party MLA from Udayagiri Bollineni Venkata Rama Rao has remained elusive for the Maharashtra police, who have been desperately on the lookout for him to arrest in connection with a major scam in executing irrigation contractors.
When Chandrababu Naidu was not extended an invitation to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit during Ivanka Trump’s visit, Nara Lokesh said it was an event organised by the Americans and hence, only the Chief Minister of the host State would be present. Perfect!
As many as dozen films released today, but not even one film was able to get a decent start. With big releases lined up for Christmas weekend, many small budget films and dubbed films had hit the box office this weekend.
The issue of Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh, which was almost a forgotten chapter till a few months ago, is all set to heat up the politics in the state once again, triggering a war of one-upmanship between the ruling Telugu Desam Party and the main opposition YSR Congress party.
The recent whirlwind tour of power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan in coastal Andhra Pradesh has posed a lot of questions to political observers in the state as to where he wants to position himself in the state politics.
Everybody has seen how Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao showered praises on Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for making Hyderabad as an IT hub.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has been going ahead with his Praja Sankalpam padayatra braving all odds for over a month now.
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu brought minor changes in the conduct of the Rajya Sabha on the first day today after taking over as its Chairman, asking ministers and members not to use colonial terms while laying papers on the table.
