Winds of change seem to be inevitable in the Telugu Desam Party. The Party that believes in single leadership is slowly and steadily gearing up for change in leadership. Already, steps are being taken to make way for younger leadership and Lokesh is being projected as the next boss of TDP.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is learnt to have given green signal for Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary to accept the resignation of Tourism Minister Talasani Srinivasa Yadav from Sanathnagar Assembly seat.
Deputy Chief Minister Mahamood Ali on Saturday stirred the hornet’s nest by saying that the government could demolish even historic Charminar, if it was in a dilapidated condition.
Close on the heels of proposed cabinet expansion, former minister and MLA from Warangal Konda Surekha and her husband Konda Murali today called on Chief Minister K Chandrsekhar Rao and discussed on the current political situation and reportedly sought minister and MLC posts for themselves.
All these days, the TDP leaders have been giving the impression that their party president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had been vigorously lobbying with the Centre on securing special status to AP.
Incidentally, almost all TDP MPs have been resonating similar thoughts and Anantapur MP JC Diwaker Reddy who jumped into TDP some time back has gone one step further and added that Babu was aware of the fact all along.
Union Minister Indrajit Singh confirmed in Parliament that states were getting huge funds under the 'Niti Aayog' and hence there was absolutely no question of giving special status to any State in India.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao, which had rejected the allegations of telephone tapping of its rivals, is now forced to go on the back foot.
Earlier, YS Jagan used to take a decision and then instruct his Party leaders on how to go about implementing it. But as he gains in experience, Jagan seems to be changing as a person.
If the Congress high command has its way, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will contest as party candidate for Warangal Lok Sabha seat in the forthcoming by-elections.
The Telangana BJP has chalked out a strategy for GHMC elections likely to be held by end of this year.
It's official now. The Narendra Modi government on Friday finally made it clear that it was not possible to grant 'Special Status' to the new state of Andhra Pradesh or for that matter, any new State.
Referring to the execution of Yakub Memon, Shashi Tharoor made a statement 'Cold-blooded execution has never prevented a terror attack anywhere.'
The real-estate in Hyderabad has always thrived on Seemandhra people. Hence, following the Telangana agitation, it was quite natural that the market witnessed a sharp decline.
Although the Supreme Court has said that the 'Aadhar' is not mandatory for availing of government services or any service for that matter, the governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh pay little heed to its judgement.
