After the defection of nearly a dozen MLA into the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the last three years, the Telugu Desam Party in Telangana has been left with just three MLAs – A Revanth Reddy form Kodandal, S Venkata Veeraiah from Khammam and R Krishnaiah from L B Nagar.
It is a known fact that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is not only religious, but also superstitious. Though he does not display it publicly like his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao, Naidu also has a lot of penchant for Vasthu.
Convicted of rape and criminal intimidation on two counts, Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh continued to get VIP treatment from Haryana's Manohar Lal Khattar government in prison.
Senior actor Nandamuri Balakrishna is no ordinary person. He is Telugu Desam Party MLA from Hindupur, son of party founder and legendary actor N T Rama Rao, brother-in-law of none other than present chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and father-in-law of Naidu’s son and IT minister Nara Lokesh, who is being tipped to succeed his father, if everything goes well in 2019 elections.
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It appears the Chandrababu Naidu government has allowed big political sharks quietly escape in the multi-crore Visakhapatnam land scam while making the officials as scapegoats.
The war of words between maverick film maker Ram Gopal Varma and senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has reached an interesting turn with the former challenging the former MP to counter him publicly on his comments on the controversial kissing scenes in the Telugu film Arjun Reddy scheduled to be released on Friday.
Former Vijayawada MP and industrialist Lagadapati Rajagopal, who had quit politics soon after bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh state, has decided against returning to active politics.
It looks like faction politics are back in Nandyal, which had once witnessed brutal killings with gun fights and bomb attacks.
Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumantha Rao took serious exception to ace director Ram Gopal Varma for saying that he (VH) was feeling envious of upcoming actor Vijay Devarakonda whose kissing scenes in his latest movie Arjun Reddy have become controversial.
That all is not well between Bharatiya Janata Party and its political ally Telugu Desam Party was once again evident from the comments made by the BJP leaders at Sankalp Siddi meeting at Amaravati on Wednesday.
The high-voltage by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat held on Wednesday generated so much interest among the people of the entire Andhra Pradesh state that the outcome has become highly unpredictable.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the land scams and tampering of land record cases in Visakhapatnam district, seems to be passing its time and letting the case fizzle out on its own, instead of finding out the real culprits.
Normally in any by-elections, the percentage of polling will be less compared to general election, because voters show a lot of apathy in coming to polling stations within a short span of two or three years.
Within a couple of hours of receiving the orders from the Election Commission of India, the Nandyal police on Wednesday booked a criminal case against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for his alleged shoot-Chandrababu-in-public remarks against Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at a public meeting in Nandyal on August 3.
