Telangana Minister for Cinematography and Commercial Taxes Talasani Srinivasa Yadav, who continues to be the Telugu Desam Party member despite defecting to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi two and a half years ago, has now got the excellent opportunity to take on his former boss, TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
In a letter to the Governor, Jagan said the four ministers – Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao, N Amarnath Reddy, Bhuma Akhila Priya and Ch Adinarayana Reddy – were elected on YSR Congress party B form and later defected to the TDP along with 17 others without resigning from their posts.
After keeping silent for a couple of months, former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham is back in action with his attack on Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
We have heard of all-party meetings conducted by the governments, which invite representatives of all political parties in the assembly for deliberations before taking crucial decisions on issues of public importance.
Analysts have predicted that those TDP MLAs who have been denied a place in the cabinet reshuffle might gravitate towards the YSRCP.
Vijayawada Central MLA Bonda Uma Maheswara Rao is always in the news for the wrong reasons.
A university is called a temple of learning and not without reason as it is supposed to impart and inculcate the best values in students. There is sanctity to the university and its ambience.
Ever since Ganta Srinivasa Rao joined the TDP and was made Minister, there has been a power struggle between him and another TDP Minister Ayyanna Patrudu.
For quite some time, there had been talk that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu might drop senior minister Bojjala Gopalakrishina Reddy.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has come under fire for inducting four YSR Congress party MLAs into his cabinet as part of expansion on Sunday.
Despite having a relatively clean image and being a non-controversial person, IT Minister Palle Raghunath Reddy has been booted out from the cabinet.
Not long ago, when Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, during a rally in Hyderabad, made some strong comments against a Telangana MLA who had defected from the TDP into the Telagnana Rashtra Samithi to become a minister.
It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has given importance to defectors from other parties, rather than those who have been loyal to the party right from the beginning, in the reshuffling and expansion of his cabinet on Sunday.
The reshuffle of the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet has expectedly resulted in a lot of disgruntlement within the Telugu Desam Party, as those who were dropped and also those who could not make it to the final list have started expressing their anguish rather openly.
After a lot of calculations in caste, regional and political equations, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has finalised the list of 11 new faces to be inducted into his council of ministers, while sacking five sitting ministers.
