It was an open secret that Congress MLA from Nalgonda Komatireddy Venkat Reddy made several attempts to get into the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi and met chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the past, but somehow, the attempts did not work out.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's U-turn on demonetisation shows the BJP-led NDA Government's failure in executing the move.
With no end to the lack of promptly accessible cash and long queues of people looking to exchange notes, Andhra Pradesh Finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu has said that the government’s decision to scrap Rs.500 and Rs. 1000 notes has led to a 30 per cent drop in revenues for the state.
Income Tax (IT) department officials on Wednesday raided the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary P.Rama Mohana Rao.
Remember how Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu changed his tunes several times on the bifurcation of erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh?
In a jibe at chronic critics, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said his advice to those who "blabber needlessly" to get publicity might as well take-off their clothes and dance naked.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday warned that the country was heading towards the biggest man-made calamity with the decision of the NDA government on demonetisation and imposing curbs on currency withdrawal from banks.
Lok Sabha member from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy might have joined the Telugu Desam Party before 2014 elections since the people were hating Congress, but his heart seems to be always in the Opposition, rather than in the ruling party.
Though a bit late, power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday came down heavily on the demonetisation drive taken up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has created nation-wide chaos among the people, while black money continues to exist in various forms.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is said to be focussing on luring important leaders of rival parties in all the districts of coastal Andhra into his party so as to offset the loss caused by defection of his party MLAs into the Telugu Desam Party.
It looks like popular political strategist Prashant Kishor has already started his work in Andhra Pradesh preparing ground for YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to come to power in 2019 elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is learnt to have advised its leaders and cadre in Andhra Pradesh not to take power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan’s latest twitter war against the party seriously but ignore him.
The agitation launched by firebrand Kapu leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham seems to be losing steam gradually, as the government has started taking him easy these days.
If the speculations doing rounds in the media circles are to be believed, former MP and firebrand actress Vijayashanti is likely to get back to her parent party – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), sooner or later.
Ministers generally try be very careful while talking to media, even if it is off the record. Especially, if they interact with media at a friendly get-together over a drink, they should be all the more careful
