SP leader Amar Singh, always in the news for all the wrong reasons, had a 'gruha pravesh', if you please, of his new Lokhandwala pad at Oberoi Sky Heights.
Telugu Desam Party leaders, who have been under fire for compromising on the special category status, are adopting a peculiar stand in rebutting the criticism.
If the speculations doing rounds in the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi are true, senior IPS officer A K Khan, who is presently Director General of Police (Anti-Corruption Bureau), is likely to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Apparently realising that he is fighting a losing battle in the High Court, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has taken a U-turn on the Swiss Challenge method adopted for favouring a Singapore consortium on the development of the core capital of Amaravati.
It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu does not want to lose any chance, even a very small one, to appease the political leaders, if he thinks they are useful to him and his party.
By threatening that his party MPs would resign from their posts, if necessary to highlight the demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party president and Leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seems to be aiming at hitting two birds at one shot.
Political circles in Andhra Pradesh are agog with reports that Nara Brahmani, daughter-in-law of Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, might soon enter politics.
Asserting that the fight for Special Category Status (SCS) would continue relentlessly, Leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday said the party MPs would raise the issue at various forums, including in Parliament and if need be, they would quit and seek a reelection to prove the intensity of the issue.
It looks like some influential Telugu NRIs like Komati Jayaram are using the Telugu Association of North America (of which he was president in the past) for money laundering and siphoning of donations collected from the NRIs in the US.
The government of Andhra Pradesh must be highly disappointed at the report of the ACB in Hyderabad.
Whether it is an off-the-cuff comment or an intentional one, Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh raised the topic of ongoing power tussle between Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav
If the reports coming from the Telugu Desam Party are to be believed, as many as four MLAs who had defected from YSR Congress party into the TDP are likely to be rewarded with the cabinet berths in the forthcoming expansion.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Telangana PCC President has vowed not to shave his beard till Congress comes back to power in the State.
YSR Congress party would hold five public meetings to highlight the failures of the Chandrababu Naidu government, its corrupt practices and failure in getting the Special Category Status, beginning November 6 at Visakhapatnam.
Let us recall yet another popular Telugu adage: “Aloo ledu, choolu ledu, koduku peru Somalingam” (There is no wife yet, nor is there any pregnancy; yet, he wants his son to be named Somalingam).
