At last, former Osmania University professor and Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) president M Kodandaram has become a member of the state legislative council, his long-cherished dream of entering the state legislature.
The competition between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has intensified, with both leaders pushing their ambitious urban projects—Naidu’s Amaravathi and Revanth’s newly proposed Fourth City.
The illegal relationship of YSR Congress party MLC Duvvada Srinivas from Tekkali with another married woman Divvela Madhuri and the massive publicity it has got on social media and mainstream media has created a big embarrassment to the party leadership.
Before the last assembly elections in Telangana, the Congress party in Telangana led by A Revanth Reddy used to accuse the then Bharat Rashtra Samithi of indulging in heavy borrowings and pushing the state into a debt trap.
If speculations doing rounds in the political circles are to be believed, YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is making serious attempts to join the INDIA bloc led by the Congress party sooner or later.
Enforcement Directorate is learnt to have summoned popular television anchor and founder-chief executive officer of TV9 channel Velicheti Ravi Prakash in connection with the alleged money laundering in investing in an African company before 2019.
In January this year, former Telugu Desam Party MP from Guntur and managing director of Amara Raja group Galla Jayadev announced quitting politics, albeit for the time being.
Former minister Gudivada Amarnath, a young leader who has been a key figure in the YCP from Visakhapatnam district, has remained silent recently.
Uncertainty prevails over the contest of the Telugu Desam Party in the upcoming by-election to the legislative council from common Visakhapatnam district local bodies’ constituency.
With the Supreme Court on Friday granting bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi minister Manish Sisodia in the Delhi excise policy scam, decks seems to have cleared for the release of Bharat Rashtra Samith leader and MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha in the same case.
Now that the National Democratic Alliance government in Andhra Pradesh led by Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is gradually consolidating its position in the state, more YSR Congress party leaders appear to be looking towards joining the TDP for a better political future.
Jana Sena Party leader and party president and Andhra Pradesh deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan’s elder brother Konidela Nagababu is going to get a key post in the state as the Chandrababu Naidu government is going to fill up several nominated posts in the next couple of days.
If a speculative news carried by a Telugu television news channel is to be believed, once-upon-a-time firebrand YSR Congress party leader and former minister R K Roja Selvamani is likely to shift her base to Tamil Nadu and enter politics there.
For the last 24 hours, the social media and a section of digital media have been agog with rumours that Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is going to send all senior leaders of his party, including MLAs, MLCs and others on a foreign tour soon.
Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has been politically targetting YS Jaganmohan Reddy, ever since he came to power, pointing out the alleged destruction under Jagan's rule.
