It is long time one has heard about former Union minister J D Seelam, who was once considered to be a close confidant of AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu always claims that he is the most hard working chief minister and a tough task master.
The 'leak' given by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leadership on the plans to make sitting Nalgonda MP Gutta Sukhender Reddy resign from his seat and conduct by-elections to checkmate the opposition parties has triggered a serious debate in the political circles.
The controversial book of retired professor and social activist Kancha Ilaiah against Vysya community (traders), accusing them of being social smugglers, has triggered a lot unrest in the Telugu states, so much so that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu contemplated banning of the book in the state.
The bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh in 2014 has caused irreparable damage to the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh; so much that the party could not win not even a single assembly seat and has been continuously losing deposits in every single election.
Popular Telugu daily Andhra Jyothy came up with a spicy speculative political story on Tuesday on how Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to follow the Nandyal experiment of his AP counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to get a favourable political climate in the state for the next elections.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is leaving no stone unturned to attack his arch rival Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and gain political mileage before 2019 elections.
Strange are the ways of the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders. While the party leaders from Telangana have been constantly attacking the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the state, their central leaders, who are coming to Telangana to participate in the Hyderabad liberation day programmes, are showering praises on KCR and his leadership.
In a surprising development, former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham on Monday went to the residence of senior TDP leader and Rajahmundry MLA Gorantla Buchaiah Chowdary and closeted with him for some serious discussions.
Despite taking training from a language expert and also undergoing 'treatment' from psychological experts in change of mind set, Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh does not seem to have improved his public speaking skills.
Everybody, including senior leaders of YSR Congress party like Nellore MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, are now finding fault with its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for making inflammatory comment -- “Naidu should be shot dead in public” and other such remarks, which resulted in the party’s debacle in the Nandyal assembly by-elections recently.
For any political party, the most important component is the party cadre at the grass root level. Without a strong cadre base and proper networking between the top leadership and the cadre, no political party can succeed in any election and come to power.
After the recent debacle of the YSR Congress party in by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat, followed by Kakinada municipal corporation elections, there was a lot of introspection in the party.
Nobody can repair the damaged the Congress party. And if at all there is anybody who can damage the prospects of the party in the elections, it is none other than the Congress leader himself.
Last week, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy launched an innovative scheme in the name of 'YSR Kutumbam' designed by the team of his political strategist Prashant Kishore, with a view to enrolling into the party at least one crore new members, who were in the past beneficiaries of various welfare schemes introduced by YSR.
