The media was full of news about the encounter at Seshachalam near Tirupathi a couple of days back. Now a new version of the story has emerged.
In the wake of killing of red sandalwood smugglers, Choudhary said that Babu made it his mission to stop smuggling and adding the money to the state exchequer.
That the BJP has started questioning the need for Pattiseema after Jagan has gone silent on the issue is also worth mentioning.
After facing allegations of corruption as the 'education Minister', G Jagdish Reddy was removed from that portfolio and appointed as 'Energy Minister'.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who made a lot of hue and cry over the controversial Pattiseema project and accused the Chandrababu Naidu government of favouring a particular contractor, has suddenly gone silent on the project.
Smuggling of red sanders is a so well planned and organised trade that barring a few, the majority of the persons involved in it do not know who the kingpin is.
The state of the 20 dead bodies and the scenes of the violence has raised serious doubts over the official version of the two encounters between Andhra Pradesh police and alleged red sanders smugglers on Tuesday morning.
The 2001 shoe-bomb plot failed only because an alert flight attendant stopped a man from lighting the fuse of plastic explosives in his shoes.
While the Andhra Pradesh government is begging the Centre for funds to mitigate the prevailing drought conditions in that State in the wake of the Opposition parties making a big noise, the Telangana government has not surprisingly made any such attempt to get funds.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao might be bitter rivals politically and competing in governing the two Telugu States, but when it comes to favouring contractors, they seem to have similar thinking.
A cabinet reshuffle is on the cards as part of which Deputy Chief Minister, Chinna Rajappa who is also the 'Home Minister' might be stripped of the portfolio of 'Home'.
The Narendra Modi government is readying a Rs 1 lakh crore package for Bihar, the next battleground state which BJP is keen to win in order to regain its momentum after the debacle in Delhi.
Many people in Andhra Pradesh feel that the governor, Narasimhan has been more inclined towards Telangana in any dispute with Andhra Pradesh.
Just when Nara Lokesh is making his hold stronger in Telugu Desam Party and when his dad Chandra Babu Naidu is setting the stage for him to be chosen as the official heir apparent, comes a little jolt to Nara Lokesh.
This is a completely unacceptable excuse for by the time the government feels it is comfortably settled down; hundreds of lives may be lost due to their incompetence.
