Of late, there have been reports that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to pamper his nephew and young actor NTR by luring the latter’s father Nandamuri Harikrishna with Rajya Sabha seat or TTD trust board chairman post.
Telugu Desam Party MP J C Diwakar Reddy on Thursday sprang a surprise on the party leadership by announcing his resignation from the Lok Sabha membership, stating that he has utterly failed to live up to the expectations of the people of his Anantapur constituency.
The Telugu Desam Party leaders are on cloud nine to get a response from the Union Home Ministry that the Centre would consider conferring Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the country, on legendary actor and former chief minister N T Rama Rao.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged movie actor Kamal Haasan to join politics. The Tamil icon said all those opposed to corruption -- the AAP leader included -- were his "relatives".
Ace national-award winning director S S Rajamouli is most likely to be appointed as an official consultant of the Andhra Pradesh government for the construction of Amaravati, the new capital of the state till it is completed.
The announcement made by maverick film director Ram Gopal Varma that he was going to make a biopic on legendary actor and former chief minister N T Rama Rao has triggered a lot of uneasiness in the camp of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The distribution of Bathukamma sarees among the women of below poverty line by the Telangana government has turned out to be a cheap political battle between the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the opposition parties.
The sale the controversial Sadavarthi lands in Tamil Nadu seems to have come back to square one, with the highest bidders who won the latest auction of the lands backtracking on taking possession of the lands.
The sudden decision of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to visit the residence of former Union minister Kotla Surya Prakash Reddy in Kurnool on Tuesday came as a surprise to many.
Former Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal may not be directly entering politics, as he has taken a virtual political sanyas.
There was a surprising press statement from the central committee of the YSR Congress party on Tuesday stating that former MLA of Chittoor C K Jayachandra Reddy alias C K Babu was not a member of the party.
Though there are still 15 months to go for the general elections in Andhra Pradesh, the election atmosphere is gradually building up in the state.
Former minister Konathala Ramakrishna, who has been virtually jobless in politics ever since he came out of the YSR Congress party a couple of years ago, seems to have decided that attacking ruling Telugu Desam Party and its president N Chandrababu Naidu is the only way to get into political limelight.
On one hand, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu says that the prestigious Polavaram project would be completed in all aspects at any cost by 2019. On the other, he says the project still needs Rs 39,000 crore for completion.
Political observers are speculating exactly who the government will field come September 20 to counter him, for that's the day Rahul Gandhi will be addressing 4,000 NRIs at the Marriott Hotel in New York.
