According to the remand report filed by the police in the court, Krishnam Raju admitted to have made the comments as he had utter contempt for chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and ruling Telugu Desam Party.
Until recently, the YSR Congress Party, led by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, had primarily targeted three media houses — Eenadu (and its channel ETV), Andhra Jyothy (along with ABN-Andhra Jyothy), and TV5 — branding them collectively as yellow media for their perceived bias towards the Telugu Desam Party.
Several members of the all-party delegations that recently toured foreign countries to highlight India’s concerns over cross-border terrorism from Pakistan have now returned.
It appears stage is set for the suspension or even expulsion of firebrand MLA from Goshamahal constituency T Raja Singh from the Bharatiya Janata Party, for his alleged controversial remarks in the recent past about some BJP leaders being sold out to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Till the other day, there were reports from within the YSR Congress party that party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was contemplating sidelining the leaders who were part of his coterie and had misled him in the last elections.
The decision of the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority to revise the cost of construction of five iconic towers of the state secretariat in Amaravati capital city has raised many eyebrows.
Surprisingly, several officials who faced allegations of corruption and malpractice during the previous YSR Congress Party regime are now allegedly paying off leaders of the ruling Telugu Desam Party — including ministers and MLAs — to escape legal consequences or avoid punishment.
A recent statement by former YSR Congress Party general secretary and ex-Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy has triggered intense political speculation both within political circles and on social media.
As the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government headed by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu approaches its one-year anniversary in office—just 12 days away—speculation is once again mounting over a possible reshuffle of the state cabinet.
What exactly is troubling Kalvakuntla Kavitha, MLC and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao?
As the Special Investigation Team of Andhra Pradesh police are taking swift action in the liquor scam case, speculations are rife over the possible arrest of YSR Congress party president and former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the case.
Now that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and Telangana Legislative Council member Kalvakuntla Kavitha has openly revolted against the party leadership, her suspension from the party appears imminent.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials, who took custody of Raj Kesireddy, former IT advisor to the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government and the prime accused in the alleged liquor scam, grilled him for seven hours to elicit information with regard to money laundering in the case.
The internal wrangling within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) seems to have reached a flash point following the breakdown of talks between Kalvakuntla Kavitha and the emissaries of her father and party president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday.
Konathala Ramakrishna has long been a prominent political figure from the united Visakhapatnam district.
