YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s strategy of fielding OBCs and minorities in key assembly and parliamentary constituencies seems to have upset prominent Reddys leaders of the party, at least in Ongole and Prakasam districts.
It hasn't been a month since Y S Sharmila took over as the president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee. In this short time, she has certainly injected some momentum into the party, which had previously been on the verge of collapse.
There is talk that former Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju is considering quitting politics.
Ever since Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu returned from his New Delhi tour after meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah last week, there have been speculations that the Bharatiya Janata Party is demanding more MP and MLA tickets in the Andhra Pradesh elections if Naidu wants the party to join the TDP-Jana Sena Party alliance.
When YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was in New Delhi on Friday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman, the media attention was mostly on who had accompanied him during the tour.
As the elections draw near, attempts are being made to attack the incumbent YCP in an innovative way.
This is an opinion widely circulated among social media groups. The question arises: why is Chandrababu so eager to form an alliance with the BJP when the party holds little political relevance in Andhra Pradesh?
It is more or less confirmed that Telugu Desam Party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will have an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party along with Jana Sena Party led by power star Pawan Kalyan.
As Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu is in Delhi to hold talks with top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party to finalise the alliance issue, speculations are rife over what the BJP would ask him for contesting the upcoming assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
She is a considerably popular face in media circles, having worked as a journalist in many mainstream TV channels for years.
It is known that Chandrababu expressed his frustration with the leaders of his party due to the low turnout at this critical juncture of the elections.
Jana Sena Party president and power star Pawan Kalyan might be playing to the gallery with his cinematic dialogues and might have appeared aggressive when he announced candidates for two seats in response to the two seats declared by his alliance partner Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
For quite some time, both Lokesh and Pawan have remained low-key. The grand old man of TDP, Chandrababu, is the only one actively campaigning for the party in this election season.
There have been thoughts that Revanth Reddy might support TDP in the upcoming AP elections because he's close to Chandrababu Naidu.
YCP Shankharavam, which initially resonated in Uttarandhra, now reverberates throughout the entire state.
