It was only a couple of days ago that Pradesh Congress Committee’s star campaigner and Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy gave his blessings to party candidate for Munugode assembly seat Palwai Sravanthi and hoped that she would win the seat.
That there is no place for integrity and morality in politics has once again been proved in the ongoing series of defections from one party to another in Telangana, ahead of the by-elections to Munugode assembly seat on November 3.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister and president of YSR Telangana Party Y S Sharmila on Friday came to the defence of her cousin Dr Narreddy Sunitha in her fight for justice with regard to the murder of the latter’s father Y S Vivekananda Reddy three and a half years ago.
The meeting of Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu with Jana Sena Party chief and power star Pawan Kalyan at a hotel in Vijayawada a couple of days ago, after a long gap of five years, has more or less confirmed that both the parties are inching towards an alliance.
When power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan was addressing a press conference at Vijayawada on Tuesday, everybody was focussing on his outburst against the YSR Congress party leaders.
TDP and Janasena are together now. They would contest together by distributing the constituencies.
It appears the government in Telangana state is completely in limbo. At a time when chief ministers and ministers in other states are busy reviewing the developmental programmes and officials are engaged administrative works, there is no such a scene in the state.
The resounding success of the Visakha Garjana rally spearheaded by ruling YSR Congress party leadership on Saturday in support of making Visakhapatnam as the executive capital of Andhra Pradesh is learnt to have left the Telugu Desam Party leaders of north-coastal Andhra in jitters.
Former IAS officer and Lok Satta Party founder Dr Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) is generally considered to be an intellectual and a man of integrity. Though he is not a big public figure, people take his words seriously.
Munugode poll is standing out to be the most expensive thing. There are many allegations that both the parties which are in power at the Center and the State are spending huge amounts on this.
There has been tension in Visakhapatnam for two days. While the ruling YSR Congress had planned for a Garjana programme on October 15, Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan fixed another programme for three days starting on October 15.
Till the other day, Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was giving the impression to the party leaders in Telangana that the TDP would contest the by-elections in Munugode assembly seat.
As expected, the ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh has put up a massive show of strength at Visakhapatnam in support of three capitals for the state in the name of Visakha Garjana rally.
Former Lok Sabha member from Bhongir assembly constituency and popular bariatric surgeon Dr Bura Narsaiah Goud on Saturday resigned from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He is expected to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the day.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has gone into a silent mode after announcing the renaming of his party as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Dasara, October 5.
