The sudden reshuffle of portfolios by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday evening has caused a flutter in political circles, leading to a hush talk that he is deliberately reducing the prominence of his nephew T Harish Rao.
Politicians have a lot of superstitions, perhaps more than film personalities. We often see political leaders performing homams, japams and prayers, besides strictly following muhurtams for every programme.
Decks seem to have been cleared for the entry of former minister Konathala Ramakrishna into the Telugu Desam Party, with two of his close aides – Araku MLA Kidari Sarveshwar Rao and former Pendurthi MLA Gandi Babji – deciding to quit the YSR Congress party and join the ruling party.
The YSR Congress wants a central law that will transfer the power of Speakers of state assemblies to decide on the fate of MLAs who defect to the Election Commission.
It has been nearly over two decades since Telugu Desam Party founder-president N T Rama Rao was dethroned by his own son-in-law N Chandrababu Naidu.
There are absolutely no chances of increasing the number of Assembly seats in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States now, if one were to go by the statement of former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, who was instrumental in the bifurcation of the erstwhile AP.
With the talk that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu would induct his son and Telugu Desam Party national general secretary Nara Lokesh Naidu into the State Cabinet doing rounds strongly, there were a lot of hopes among the TDP legislators for a probable berth in the Cabinet.
The sensational alleged molestation case against Ravela Susheel, son of Andhra Pradesh Minister Ravela Kishore Babu, in Banjara Hills police station, ended on expected lines.
When the Telugu Desam Party was in the Opposition for 10 years, it made a hue and cry over the alleged corruption in the Y S Rajasekhar Reddy government.
Acute drinking water shortage due to drastic fall in water levels in major reservoirs, continuing crisis in agriculture and a harsh summer have made this the worst ever drought in Telangana in living memory.
Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes Rs. 9,000 crores to various banks in the country, has been living at a $15 million mansion in England's Hertfordshire county, The Sunday Times reported.
Hitherto, there has been a talk in the Telangana Congress camp that the high command would go in for a complete overhaul of the party in the State and fill it up with young blood, so that it would go to polls in 2019 with renewed vigour.
Even as the leaders of Opposition parties in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have been crying foul over luring of their MLAs by the TRS and TDP in their respective States, more and more of their MLAs are joining the ruling parties.
It appears the post of Special Representative of the Andhra Pradesh government at A P Bhavan in New Delhi is a jinxed one.
Strange are the ways of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. In a bid to grab the attention of the people to claim that he has taken up massive projects
