By blaming it on the Centre for the recent controversy over Polavaram tenders, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has definitely rubbed the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the centre and more particularly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the wrong shoulders.
The defection of Giddi Eshwari, YSR Congress party MLA from Paderu, into the ruling Telugu Desam Party, has jeopardised the political career of Araku MP Kothapalli Geetha.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy has directed the party workers to gear up for next Panchayat elections.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s statement that he would happily handover the Polavaram project to the Centre, if it could complete it within the deadline, has exposed his incompetence and helplessness, rather than his confrontationist attitude towards the Centre.
It has been quite some time since one has heard about the political activities of power star Pawan Kalyan.
If the speculations doing rounds in the political circles are true, TDP president and Andhra CM Chandrababu and his Telangana counterpart KCR might join hands to stall the entry of the BJP in the south, if possible with the help of power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan, the DMK of Tamil Nadu, Left parties in the Kerala and JD (U) in Karnataka.
YSRC party president Jagan Reddy might have been getting tremendous response from the people for his marathon Praja Sankalpam “padayatra,” which is almost nearing a month, but they are still not able to forget the memories of his father late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, who had gone on a similar padayatra more than 14 years ago.
It appears the “milk bath” culture that is widely witnessed in Telangana is now gradually spreading to Andhra Pradesh as well.
With hardly 15 months left for the assembly elections in AP and an election atmosphere is gradually building up with the marathon padayatra by YSRCP president Jagan for the next six months, TDP president and CM Chandrababu has started taking out one sop after the other to appease different sections of people.
Has Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu deliberately chosen a wrong timing to provide five per cent reservations for Kapus in education and employment under BC quota?
Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmnabham, who has threatened to move heaven and earth for the Kapu reservations, has beaten a retreat with the Andhra Pradesh assembly passing the bill on providing five per cent reservations to Kapus under Backward Classes quota.
For quite some time, prominent Backward Classes leader and Telugu Desam Party MLA from L B Nagar in Hyderabad R Krishnaiah has been threatening to quit the party to launch his own political outfit for the Backward Classes.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s roar against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the Centre for its alleged callousness towards the state has turned out to be a mere whimper within 24 hours.
YSR Congress party on Friday accused the Chandrababu Naidu government of indulging in a blame game with the Centre on Polavaram project works only to cover up his failure in completing the project and find an escape route at the fag-end of his tenure.
After a lot of dilly-dallying and dodging over three years, the Chandrababu Naidu government has finally decided to give some push to the much-publicised demand for inclusion of Kapus in the BC quota.
