A senior journalist, Patri Vasudevan, has been dismissed from Telugu news channel 99TV after claiming that assassination squads were operating in Andhra Pradesh with the intent to eliminate YSR Congress Party president and former Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The Andhra Pradesh government has prohibited display of political symbols or materials and banned entry of unauthorised persons in school premises.
Over the past few months, YSR Congress Party president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been touring various parts of the state
If reports circulating in Andhra Pradesh political circles are to be believed, yet another loyalist of YSR Congress Party president and former Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is contemplating leaving the party in the near future.
It is well known that Pulivendula is the virtual stronghold of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and is represented in the Assembly by none other than party president Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Elections for any post—from gram panchayat to MPTC, ZPTC, or the Assembly seat—are typically one-sided in favor of the YSRCP.
Former Information Technology advisor to the previous Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh, Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy—also known as Raj Kesireddy and the prime accused in the alleged liquor scam—broke down in the ACB Special Court in Vijayawada on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh Police have arrested the cousin brother of state Minister B. C. Janardhan Reddy for slapping a police constable during a temple inauguration.
Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh on Thursday alleged that the YSR Congress Party was attempting to sabotage potential investments from Singapore by threatening companies through emails.
YSR Congress Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday alleged that an undeclared emergency-like situation was prevailing in the state, as the ruling Telugu Desam Party-led coalition was targeting opposition leaders and unleashing a reign of terror.
Nellore town witnessed a tense atmosphere on Thursday as YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy toured the district to meet former minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy, who is currently in jail, and former MLA Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy, who has recently come under scrutiny and is being targeted by TDP leaders.
The controversial allocation of prime land in Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada by the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government in Andhra Pradesh to the Lulu Group for the development of malls has come under legal scrutiny.
Former MP and YSRCP political affairs committee member Talari Rangaiah on Wednesday alleged that the Telugu Desam Party leaders, including ministers, are bringing pressure in industrialists to cough up kickbacks and commissions for setting up their industries and running their businesses.
Following sharp criticism from the public and opposition parties, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu appears to have reversed his earlier stance on restricting free bus travel for women within their respective districts.
Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, alias Raj Kesireddy, the prime accused in liquor scam being probed by the Special Investigation Team of the Hyderabad police, has stoutly denied any links to the Rs 11 crore seized by the police from a farmhouse in Shamshabad on Wednesday morning.
As the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Andhra Pradesh has speeded up the investigation into the liquor scam that allegedly took place during the previous YSR Congress party regime, the political atmosphere in the state has begun hotting up.
