Sharad Pawar celebrated his 76th birthday on Monday, and his supporters had planned week long programmes to mark the big day. But the NCP chief skipped both Mumbai and Baramati, and, instead, chose to bring in his birthday with some close friends and family in Goa.
The Congress party is trying to make use of every opportunity to get back its glory in Telangana and come to power in 2019 elections by cashing in on the anti-establishment among the people.
The YSR Congress party headed by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy appears to be gaining strength gradually with senior leaders from other parties joining one after the other.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been under constant attack from the Opposition parties for his failure to implement election promises, is learnt to have decided to use the forthcoming Assembly session as a platform to explain the achievements of his government in the last two and a half years.
Former Secunderabad MP and senior Congress leader P V Rajeshwar Rao, second son of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao died after brief illness in Hyderabad on Monday.
The biggest problem with the 125-year old Congress party is that there is too much democracy in the party – so, anybody can talk anything and there too much contenders for big post.
Before 2014 elections, the major slogan of the Telugu Desam Party was: “Job kaavalante Babu raavali” (If you want job, vote for Babu). And the people voted Babu to power, but forget about new jobs, even those who were already employed are losing their jobs.
It looks like the Telangana government is systematically diluting the cash-for-vote case against the Telugu Desam Party leaders, may be as part of the understanding between Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao with his Andhra counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu.
After finishing his term as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, K Rosaiah was appointed as the governor of Tamil Nadu.
On a day when the leadership issue in AIADMK was almost settled in favour of Sasikala Natarajan, Deepa, niece of the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa, too threw her hat in the ring.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday suddenly announced cancellation of his trip to Dubai, UAE and Kuwait, on the pretext that he has to be in the state since the cyclone Vardah
YSR Congress party has received a shot in the arm with youth leader and former MLA from Vijayawada (West) Vellampalli Srinivas deciding to join the party in a day or two.
Popular Telugu television channel V6 has challenged in a Mumbai court the decision of Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC India) to suspend its ratings for some weeks.
Chennai-based Telugu industrialist J Sekhar Reddy, from whom the Income Tax authorities seized unaccounted cash of over Rs 120 crore, mostly in brand new Rs 2000 denomination besides huge amounts of gold, was removed from the trust board of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.
Chandrababu Naidu seems to have really lost it! Whether he has become senile due to old-age or some other reasons, he has been taking bizarre decisions ever since he became the CM.
