Telugu Desam Party MLC and senior leader Shilpa Chakrapani Reddy, too, has decided to quit the party and join YSR Congress party, following the footsteps of his brother Shilpa Mohan Reddy, reports coming from Nandyal have indicated.
Power star and Jana Sena Party founder Pawan Kalyan on Monday took pot shots, albeit indirectly, at former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanbham for making a big issue out of Kapu reservations.
YSR Congress party on Monday challenged the Telugu Desam Party government’s decision to withdraw criminal cases against its Ministers, MLAs and MLCs.
Jana Sena chief and film star Pawan Kalyan called on Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu at the Interim Government Complex (IGC) at Velagapudi on Thursday to discuss the kidney problems in the Uddanam area of Srikakulam district.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s proposed tour in Nandyal on August 3 to kick-start the party’s election campaign for the ensuing by-elections, is all set to change the fortunes of the party and tilt the scales in its favour.
In what could indicate a major shift in the political landscape of Andhra Pradesh, Jana Sena chief and film actor Pawan Kalyan said he would not hesitate to join hands with YSRC chief Jaganmohan Reddy to fight the decades-old Uddanam kidney disease issue.
Venkaiah Naidu's vice-presidentship will cut off the right-hand man of AP CM Chandra Babu Naidu.
It was Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu's intention to stay by Venkaiah Naidu when he was filing his nomination for the vice president's post.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party on Saturday accused the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government in general and IT minister K T Rama Rao in particular, of encouraging pub culture in the city in the name of promoting tourism and IT, which was the prime cause of increasing drug menace in the city.
Strange are the ways of veteran Telangana Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Telangana assembly K Jana Reddy. Many a time, he took his own party leaders by surprise by showering praises on ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his schemes. And the very next moment, he criticised the government.
Former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham has dared Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to put him in jail or even hang him, but asserted that he would not withdraw his plan to take out the padayatra.
The Telangana government has given its nod for the prosecution of BJP MLA Raja Singh in a case related to hate speech filed nearly four years ago. The case against the lawmaker was filed in the city's Shahinayathgunj police station.
Telangana CM KCR, who thought of pacifying the agitated Telugu film industry by saying that the film personalities being interrogated by the Special Investigation Team of the excise and prohibition department were not the accused in the drug peddling case but were only the victims, had to take back his words hurriedly.
Bharatiya Janata Party does not have the strength or the support from the people of Telangana or for that matter in the entire south, barring may be Karnataka and it has no option to join hands with the regional forces if it wants to sustain.
The threat by the Tollywood big stars, directors and producers that they would shift their base to Visakhapatnam if the Telangana government does not stop targeting the film personalities over the drug racket seems to have had its impact on chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
