Ending suspense over the contestants for the parliamentary elections, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday announced the list of candidates for 16 Lok Sabha seats, after intense exercise.
It is an open secret that money play the most important role in deciding the fate of candidates of various political parties in any election.
Bharatiya Janata Party, which is desperate to prove its existence by winning at least one Lok Sabha seat in Telangana, is looking for weakening the Congress party by luring its influential leaders in key constituencies, rather than tackling the Telangana Rashtra Samithi directly.
With Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao eyeing a key role in national politics in the post-poll scenario, his son K. T. Rama Rao appears set to take over the mantle.
It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Bharatiya Janata Party have come to an understanding on decimating the Congress party completely in Telangana.
The exodus of MLAs from Congress to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi appears to be going unabated.
While the upcoming general elections to Lok Sabha have created a lot of buzz in all the states, it is not the case in Telangana.
The decision of the Congress high command to field Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy from Nalgonda in the parliament elections to be held on April 11 shows how weak the party is in Telangana.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday said it was not job of the Prime Minister or political parties to decide where is the Ram Janmabhoomi.
In a surprise move, Pawan Kalyan is contesting from two assembly constituencies - Gajuwaka and Bheemavaram. He has announced this decision a while ago.
As expected, senior Telugu Desam Party leader and politburo member Nama Nageswara Rao resigned from the party on Tuesday, severing his two decades long association with the party.
A picture of TRS leader and MLA T Harish Rao sitting on the floor along with his supporters at his house in Siddipet has gone viral on social media.
The Congress party on Monday night named its Telangana state chief Uttam Kumar Reddy as the candidate from Nalgonda Lok Sabha seat while AICC secretary Madhu Goud Yashki will contest from Nizamabad.
On March 3, 2018, KCR convened a press conference at his sprawling Pragathi Bhavan and announced that he would forge a 'Federal Front' at the national level against the Congress and BJP.
MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi, who filed his nomination for Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency on Monday, declared assets worth over Rs 13 crore but he owns no vehicle.