The announcement made by leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh assembly and YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy that he will undertake a marathon 3,000 km long padayatra across the length and breadth of the state with effect from October 27 has become a big sensation in Andhra politics.
With the tremendous success of YSR Congress party plenary that warmed up the political climate in Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu hurriedly started filling up the nominated posts with a view to dousing rebellion in the party and preventing the disgruntled elements from jumping into the rival party.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been incurring the wrath of womenfolk all over the state over his latest excise policy, which allowed setting up of more number of liquor shops and bars to make big revenue.
Every political leader, that too leader of a leading political party, has the desire of becoming the chief minister of his state one day or the other. And there is nothing wrong in having the ambition. After all, politics is meant for coming to power.
One major incident that became the talk of the town during 2014 elections was the sudden emergence of Pawan Kalyan or PK on the political scene.
KTR is a good speaker, took to politics easily. Now, he is a minister in his father's cabinet and is pretty active politically. Many see him as the next CM of Telangana. So far so good. And he has one similarity with his father.
It looks like the Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana state unit has absolutely no control over its leaders who make inflammatory statements that would embarrass the leadership, yet get away without any action.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday demanded that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government take measures on war footing to provide required cash and other facilities to farmers for Kharif 2017.
While it was Y S Jaganmohan Reddy all the way at the two-day plenary of the YSR Congress party that concluded in Amaravati on Sunday, the highlight of the session was his sister Y S Sharmila, who showed up at the party meeting along with her mother Vijayalakshmi after a long time.
YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy has declared that he has a lot of faith in the abilities of political strategist Prashant Kishor and expressed confidence that the latter would help the party come to power in 2019.
Y S Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR congress today virtually released its manifesto for the 2019 Andhra Pradesh elections promising among other things to make the state liquor-free in a phased manner.
Telugu Desam Party lawmaker JC Diwakar Reddy, who created ruckus at Visakhapatnam airport last month after he was denied boarding by IndiGo for allegedly reaching late, was today denied a ticket to Vijayawada from Hyderabad by regional airline TruJet.
The latest buzz in TDP is about NTR Jr and this time it is not about his films or lack of them.
Nithin is said to be worrying about sufficient movie theaters for his "LIE" that is releasing on August 11.
If the reports coming from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi are to be believed, party president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to revive his strategy of luring as many leaders as possible from the Congress party so as to weaken it before the next elections.
