It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu's ambition of completing the Polavaram project on Godavari river before the next elections is turning out to be difficult with more and more hurdles coming in the way.
Senior Congress leader and AICC in-charge of Andhra and Telangana affairs Digvijay Singh always wants to be news with his controversial remarks, rather than focussing on improving the party position in the Telugu states.
YSR Congress party on Wednesday demanded that assembly speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao disqualify all the 20 MLAs who had crossed over from YSRC to the Telugu Desam Party, in the wake of the High Court notices to four defectors who were taken into the cabinet.
In a sudden and surprising move, domestic airliner IndiGo on Wednesday revoked its ban imposed on maverick Telugu Desam Party MP J C Diwakar Reddy from flying on its flights. The ban has been lifted with immediate effect.
The 'elevation' of former union minister M Venkaiah Naidu to the post of Vice-President of India is expected to change the dynamics of Andhra Pradesh politics.
With womenfolk across Andhra Pradesh revolting against the government for liberalising liquor sales in its latest excise policy resulting in mushrooming of belt shops (unauthorised liquor shops), the Chandrababu Naidu government has decided to launch a crackdown on these belt shops.
Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan set his Twitter followers and others wracking their minds with a Tamil poem that sounded like signaling entry into politics.
Venkaiah Naidu's elevation has left many support staff of the two ministries he handled high and dry. They are worried about where they will be deployed now.
Last time when there was a water leakage in the newly-built Secretariat buildings, people did not take it very seriously because it is quite common that minor defect would surface in any new constructions.
With just a week left for the commencement of 'indefinite padayatra' by Kapu leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham, the Andhra Pradesh police have started threatening the Kapu youth from participating in the padayatra, stating that they should not get their precious life and career spoiled.
When it rained heavily leading to the leakage of water in the chambers of leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh assembly building on the premises of temporary Secretariat at Velagapudi a couple of months ago, the Telugu Desam Party government attributed it to the conspiracy by some vested interests that were trying to defame the government.
Power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan, who has been keeping silent when there were major issues and scandals confronting the state and has been busy focussing only on his films, has opened his mouth on politics at last.
It was a humiliation of sorts for Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu. On Tuesday, Naidu was to go to New Delhi to join former Union minister for information and broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu for filing of nomination by the latter for the Vice President of India post.
As expected, the so-called exchange of challenges and counter-challenges between senior Telugu Desam Party legislator Gorantla Buchaiah Chowdary and former MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar at Prakasam barrage in Vijayawada on the utility of Pattiseema project did not take place on Tuesday.
NDA's Vice President candidate M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said if elected he would work to strengthen the Parliamentary democratic system and uphold the traditions and dignity of the office.
