After a brief lull, the talk of defections from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi into the ruling Congress in Telangana has started once again.
The Congress government in Telangana led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy has cleared long pending dues to the extent of Rs 2,500 crore to be paid to the Andhra Pradesh government led by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, at last.
It is an open secret that YSR Congress party president and former Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is at odds with his sister, Y. S. Sharmila, and that they are currently not on speaking terms.
The BRS is focused on strengthening the party at the village level and is exploring effective strategies for this.
Monday marked the auspicious occasion of Rakhi Pournami, with politicians traditionally posting photographs of their sisters tying Rakhi on social media.
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.
