The “flash survey” conducted by Andhra Jyothy projecting bright prospects for the ruling Telugu Desam Party and dwindling chances for YSR Congress party to come to power if mid-term elections are held to Andhra Pradesh assembly now did not come as a surprise at all.
During the monsoon session of the Andhra Pradesh assembly held in July in Hyderabad, Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu declared that it was the last session being held in the joint capital and that the forthcoming winter session would be held in Amaravati, the new capital of AP.
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah, who completed his five-year term as Governor of Tamil Nadu, had a “home coming” on Saturday.
The demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi government has taken as many as 80 lives of the people who collapsed while standing in queues before banks. The Centre did not bother to react to these unfortunate incidents.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy might be a bit slow in reacting on crucial issues like currency crisis, but he is very quick in conveying messages, particularly condolence messages as well as congratulatory messages.
It has been more than two weeks since the demonetisation was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi causing immense hardship to the common people.
The much-publicised meeting between Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and the YSR Congress party MLAs on Friday was on expected lines: both the sides sought to use the opportunity to gain political mileage.
People might have forgotten Lok Satta founder-president and former MLA Dr Jayaprakash Narayan long ago and he, too, had wound up the political party and converted it into just an NGO. But now and then, he surfaces from nowhere and gives lectures on key issues.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s tours in different parts of Andhra Pradesh to take up people’s issues are learnt to be causing a lot of troubles at the “field level.”
It is hardly a month since the entire Andhra Secretariat moved to its new complex at Velagapudi in Amaravati and officials are yet to settle down completely. But, for corruption, there is no such hurdles.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader P Manikyala Rao, who holds endowments portfolio in the Telugu Desam Party cabinet in Andhra Pradesh, has landed chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in an embarrassing position by going to the residence of mining tycoon and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in Bellary a couple of days ago.
If the reports from Telugu Desam Party are to be believed, party general secretary Nara Lokesh is most likely to be promoted as the working president of the party sooner or later.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who entered his new official-cum-residential bungalow at Begumpet on Thursday, sought to defend the construction of the new complex, saying it was only for the all-round development of the state.
The demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi government has created more troubles to Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu than his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Demonetisation seems to have had a major impact on the financial strategies of many big shots in the country including cinema stars.
