In what could be a scene straight out of a Telugu action flick, senior TDP leader Raavi Venkateswara Rao on Thursday whipped out his revolver, fired in the air and ran away from the club where he was `relaxing'.
Finally, the Telangana Congress leaders are gaining strength and unity to fight against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao and are trying to regain their lost ground in the state.
It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has given green signal to his party leaders from Rayalaseema to attack his arch rival, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy personally.
Believe it or not, the cash award of Rs 100 crore announced by Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is 10 times more than the value of the Nobel Prize given by the Sweden government!
Union minister for Information and Public Relations and Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu, who does not let go any opportunity to be in the good books of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was conspicuous by his absence at the inauguration of 104th Indian Science Congress at Tirupati launched on January 3.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s announcement that his government would reward any scientist from Andhra who can win Nobel Prize has come as a big surprise.
The social media wing of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Telangana government is very strong. Apart from highlighting the so-called ‘achievements’ of the Chandrasekhar Rao government brainwashing the people in the social media, this wing does not lose a single minute in attacking the critics of KCR and branding them as anti-Telangana.
Is Governor E S L Narasimhan desperate to get extension for another term? One would get the doubt going by the way he is pampering Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The sudden outburst of power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan against the Telugu Desam Party government over the mysterious deaths of people due to renal failures in Uddanam area in Srikakulam and his 48-hour deadline to the Chandrababu Naidu government to respond on the issue has irked the TDP leaders and ministers.
A day after maverick Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy used foul language against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the main opposition party reacted strongly.
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao, who is known for his soft talk even at his strongest political rivals and hardly makes any strong comments against them, burst out against Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for claiming credit for the Polavaram project.
At last, power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan attacked the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh, albeit mildly if not strongly, on the issue of mysterious deaths of people due to kidney failures in Uddanam area in Srikakulam district.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu is like a double-edged sword. He is great as a public speaker, but is also a suave talker behind the screen. He knows how to convince people and bring them around to his argument.
If speculations doing rounds in the political circles are to be believed, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is most likely to field Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham as the party’s face in the Godavari districts in next elections.
Gutta Sukhender Reddy is a great survivor. He enjoyed power in TDP for years and shifted to Congress and became an MP again. But, his calculations went awry and the Congress was out of power in both the State and the Centre.