Everybody was talking about the absence of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan at the “Pratyeka Hoda Bharosa Sabha” (public meeting to must support for special category status to Andhra Pradesh) held by Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee at Guntur on Sunday.
The comments made by Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi at the Sunday evening’s public meeting at Guntur against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on the special category status to Andhra Pradesh are totally unwarranted, political analysts who participated in television debates on Monday observed.
Mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who has been on bail with regard to illegal mining scam case, is all set to stage a comeback into power politics in the next elections.
The Telangana Congress leaders seem to have realised their mistake of allowing the Telangana Rashtra Samithi to grow into a monster which they are not able to conquer now.
YSR Congress party president Jagan Reddy, who expectedly avoided attending the public meeting convened by the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee at Guntur on Sunday, came under attack for compromising on the special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) activists showed black flags to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi here on Sunday as he arrived to address a public meeting to demand the Centre fulfill its commitment to give special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
Members of the ‘Pratyeka Hoda Sadhana Samithi’ concluded a 96-hour deeksha at Vijayawada on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh till recently was famous as ‘the rice bowl of India’. Today, it has become the begging bowl of the nation thanks to the numerous appeals for financial assistance being made by the State government to the Centre.
Former MP Konathala Ramakrishna, who has been confined to fighting on the issues concerning north-coastal Andhra after quitting the YSR Congress party, seems to be evincing interest in joining the Telugu Desam Party, but is still hesitant on taking a decision fearing backlash from people and his followers.
If speculations doing rounds in the Telangana Congress party are to be believed, Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA from Warangal (East) constituency Konda Surekha and her husband Konda Murali, an MLC, are likely to return to the Congress party fold sooner or later.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu seems be losing control over his party leaders, including MLAs, MPs and ministers these days. Many of them are just ignoring Naidu’s orders to participate in the government and party programmes.
The Congress in the immediate future cannot harbour any thoughts of coming to power in Andhra Pradesh.
The proposal mooted by Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president A Revanth Reddy for a possible alliance between the TDP and the Congress party to take on the mighty Telangana Rashtra Samithi seems to have no takers in the Congress party.
The Telangana government is learnt to have spent a whopping Rs 35 crore on publicity to chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday, on the occasion of Telangana formation day celebrations.
Responding to Rahul Gandhi’s statement of ‘family rule’ in Telangana, KTR said that the Congress Party speaking of ‘family rule’ is a joke of the millennium.
