Even as the Union water resources ministry called for a meeting of the officials of Andhra Pradesh irrigation department including minister Devineni Uma Maheshwar Rao to discuss the latest controversy over Polavaram tenders issue and work out the strategy to complete the project at the earliest, the Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao led a delegation to Union minister Nitin Gadkari to explain the factual position on the project.
After going into a virtual political oblivion for quite some time due to busy shooting schedule, power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan is going to be back into political action, albeit for a short period.
It is now official. None other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself categorically made it clear that there is no question of enhancing the total percentage of reservations beyond 50 per cent stipulated by the Supreme Court.
It is more or less certain that Rahul Gandhi is going to be declared as the president of All India Congress Committee on Tuesday.
The AgriGold issue relating to repayment of deposits to lakhs of investors has come back to square one with the Zee Essel group on Monday backtracking on the repayments, which is the main issue in the entire crisis.
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?
