Though it is not totally unexpected, the way Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao rejected the petition of YSR Congress party seeking disqualification of 13 defected MLAs has taken many by surprise.
Believe it or not, Devansh Naidu, son of Telugu Desam Party national general secretary Nara Lokesh Naidu, is not able to recognise his own grandfather – Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The Hyderabad High Court on Friday gave a veiled threat to the agitating judges and other staff of various courts of Telangana that action would be taken against them if they do not withdraw their agitation.
The ongoing agitation by the Telangana judges and judicial officers has come as a blessing in disguise for the Telangana Rashta Samithi which has used it as a weapon to the attack the Centre and the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, thereby gaining political mileage.
Even as the agitation Telangana judges continues to rock the state, advocates from Andhra began their agitation in protest against the assaults on them by Telangana lawyers.
The reports appearing in a section of media (we shall leave it to your guess what they are) that YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had a three-hour meeting with astrologers and pundits to get the correct prediction of his future, as nothing is going right for him of late.
The hype and hungama created by a section of media supporting the Chandrababu Naidu government over the inauguration of interim secretariat complex at Velagapudi in Amaravati has turned out be a big hoax within 24 hours.
Gujarat and Delhi are India's most investment-friendly states. Bihar and Jharkhand are the worst. Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the most corrupt states for doing business.
BJP's decision to drop two ministers from the Madhya Pradesh government on the ground they have crossed 75 years has triggered speculation that such a yardstick could be applied in the much-talked about Union Cabinet reshuffle that is likely to take place soon.
Hitting hard at TDP for trying to eke out political mileage from the normal procedure of attachment of assets by ED, YSR Congress has said that Chandrababu Naidu has to get ready for CBI probe as many cases are pending against him.
Though there were indications that the heir apparent of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be his son K T Rama Rao, there has been still a discussion in the political circles that his nephew T Harish Rao is also a front runner for the coveted CM post after KCR.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has given enough publicity for the new capital Amaravati by inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and spending crores of rupees.
Within hours of returning from his holiday trip in Europe on Wednesday, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy received a rude shock with the Enforcement Directorate attaching his movable and immovable properties worth Rs 749 crore on the charges of money laundering through his group companies.
A new chapter began in the Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday with the formal commencement of Secretariat at its temporary building constructed at Velagapudi.
