Over-action by some overenthusiastic team members of Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) headed by Prashant Kishor is understood to have created a big embarrassment for YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who hired the team for working out strategies for the party’s victory in 2019 elections.
A senior leader of a Hindu outfit -- Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha -- on Friday slammed veteran Tamil actor Kamal Haasan for his "Hindu terror" remarks and said people like him should be "shot dead".
Media circles in Hyderabad are agog with the talk that Eenadu group chairman Ch Ramoji Rao has decided to wind up the most popular magazines of the group, including Chatura which publishes Telugu novels, Vipula which comprises collection of interesting Telugu stories and also Telugu translations of other language stories and Sitara, the most popular Telugu film magazine.
Even as YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is getting ready for his 3,000 km long marathon padayatra from Idupulapaya to Itchapuram from November 6, highlighting among other things the demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh, the organisations with the same demand have decided to intensify their movement to bring pressure on the state and the centre.
Call it a bad omen or a rude shock to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at a time when he is getting ready for a marathon 3,000 km long padayatra form Monday.
One of the oddities of the current political scene is the compliments which the Shiv Sena has been paying to Rahul Gandhi.
If the reports from the Telugu Desam Party sources are to be believed, Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu’s daughter-in-law Nara Brahmani is also keen on entering politics before 2019 elections.
The Congress party in Telangana, which was extremely euphoric over the entry of Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy, has got disappointed within no time, as it has not received the expected large scale influx of leaders from other parties.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was considered to be a dictator and a tough nut to crack for the state government employees before 2004 which was one of the reasons why he had lost power to the Congress then.
Everybody knows Telangana IT minister K T Rama Rao is highly ambitious leader and is the heir apparent of his father chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The Telangana Congress party does not want to leave any stone unturned in taking on the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the next elections.
The Congress party in Telangana might be brimming with confidence with the defection of Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy from the Telugu Desam Party, but it has apparently become over-confidence.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy appears to have sensed a big conspiracy by his bitter rival Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to create hurdles in his proposed padayatra scheduled to begin on November 6.
After Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy left the Telugu Desam Party to join the Congress, the Telangana TDP is virtually facing an identity crisis.
Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy, who resigned from the Telugu Desam Party and joined the Congress party, has also claimed to have resigned from the assembly membership by submitting his resignation letter to TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, instead of to assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary.
