The beleaguered Telugu Desam Party in Visakhapatnam, which received a big jolt last week with the defection of Visakha Dairy chairman Adari Anand, his sister Rama Kumari and thousands of party workers into the YSR Congress party, got yet another rude shock on Wednesday.
The arrest of senior Congress leader and former deputy chief minister of Karnataka D K Shivakumar on Tuesday evening by the Enforcement Directorate people created ripples in the political circles.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan had been claiming all these days that he had no caste discrimination and that he would not like to be considered as a Kapu leader.
Bharatiya Janata Party has burnt its fingers in Andhra Pradesh by joining hands with the Telugu Desam Party in 2014 and continuing the friendship till it was dumped in 2018.
Stage is set for the merger of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation into the state government. With this, nearly 53,000 employees of the RTC will now become state government employees.
One major area of concern for the YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy ever since it was formed in May this year has been its not-so-good media relations.
Even as YSR Congress party MLA from Tadikonda V Sridevi sought to blame the Telugu Desam Party leaders and workers for abusing her caste and insulting her during Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in the constituency, TDP legislator Dokka Manikya Varaprasad came to her defence strongly.
Jana Sena Party has termed the letter that is doing the rounds on social media as fake.
The war of words between Telugu Desam Party MLA from Visakhapatnam (north) Ganta Srinivasa Rao and present Andhra Pradesh tourism minister Muthamsetti Srinivasa Rao alias Avanti Srinivas has reached a new high.
Taking another step towards implementing prohibition in a phased manner, the Andhra Pradesh government has started taking over liquor business from private traders by opening 470 liquor shops as a pilot project.
The 10th death anniversary of former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy was observed across the Telugu states on Monday.
Rich tributes were paid to late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy by the party leaders and family members across Andhra Pradesh on his 10th death anniversary on Monday.
The land value in villages falling under Amaravathi capital region was in the range of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 30 lakh per acre, before then AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu initiated land pooling for construction of Amaravathi capital city.
In a big jolt to Telugu Desam Party in Visakhapatnam district, Visakha Dairy Chairman Adari Anand, along with his team of 12 directors, joined the YSR Congress Party on Sunday.
The latest episode of Telangana health minister Etela Rajender, who openly expressed anguish over the goings-on in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, is a clear indication to lack of internal democracy within the party.
