Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP A P Jitender Reddy might have ruled out joining the NDA government at the Centre and Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana unit president Dr K Laxman might have made it clear that there is no question of taking the TRS into the Central cabinet, but the speculations about TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao still lobbying for a central cabinet berth continue to do rounds in the media circles.
After the announcement of the Agriculture Leadership award to Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao by ICFA, a private agency, triggered a controversy, it is now the turn of his son K T Rama Rao to get a similar award by a private organisation.
Nirmala Sitharaman was on Sunday named India's Defence Minister in a reshuffle-cum-expansion of his ministry carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that also saw Piyush Goyal take charge of Indian Railways.
When there were leaks to some sections of media from the team of Prashant Kishor, the political strategist hired by YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy that the party is going to launch a new initiative called YSR Kutumbam on the eighth death anniversary of late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, it generated a lot of enthusiasm.
Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan, who has been deliberately keeping away from the demand for reservations to Kapu community all these years, seems to have realised that he has no other option but to play the caste card like all other parties, if he has to sustain in Andhra politics.
It was a big disappointment for Visakhapatnam Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kambhampati Haribabu for missing the bus in the Union cabinet expansion.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bandaru Dattatreya, who was forced to submit his resignation from the post of Union Labour Minister, is terribly upset with the decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is understood to have decided to retire from active politics.
It is now official. Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Visakhapatnam Kambhampati Hari Babu, who defeated YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s mother Y S Vijayalakshmi in 2014 general elections, is going to become the Union minister on Sunday.
Jana Sena Party founded by power star Pawan Kalyan might not field candidates in all the 175 seats in Andhra Pradesh assembly in 2019 elections and might test its ground only in select constituencies.
Megastar Chiranjeevi on Saturday said it was everyone's responsibility to protect the rivers and extended his support for yogi Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's initiative "Rally For Rivers".
People denied entry to the US under President Donald Trump's first travel ban can now reapply for visas following a legal settlement reached in a federal court.
The victory of the Telugu Desam Party in Kakinada Municipal Corporation elections with over two-thirds majority has stumped the Kapu joint action committee, led by former minister Mudragada Padmanabham.
More than anybody else in the Telugu Desam Party, it is party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu who is on cloud nine following the party’s victory in Kakinada Municipal Corporation elections.
The debacle of the YSR Congress party in the recent by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat and the latest elections in Kakinada Municipal Corporation seem to have created some sort of disgruntlement over the role of political strategist Prashant Kishor, who was hired by party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for steering the party to victory in 2019 polls.
As expected, the ruling Telugu Desam Party has bagged the prestigious elections to Kakinada Municipal Corporation, counting for which took place on Friday.
