Huge hike in the salary of various categories of workers, 27 per cent interim relief to the government employees and implementation of cash assistance scheme for farmers were some of the major decisions taken at the first meeting of the new Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Monday.
Andhra Pradesh Telugu Desam Party leader and official spokesperson Sadineni Yamini had become very popular in the mainstream as well as social media before the recent general elections with her pungent comments and sharp attacks on the YSR Congress party and other political rivals.
The first cabinet meeting chaired by Andhra Pradesh chief minister and YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy turned out to be a super hit.
After the humiliating defeat of the Telugu Desam Party in the recent assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, there has been a natural curiosity among political observers and also media as to what TDP president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu would do in the coming days.
Former minister from Kadapa C Adinarayana Reddy, who had defected from the YSR Congress party to the Telugu Desam Party for the sake of cabinet berth three years ago, now seems to be repenting for his move.
If the reports coming from New Delhi are any indication, the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre will appoint new Governors separately for two Telugu state soon.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy looked visibly very happy while he was coming out from the Sri Padmavathi Guest House in Tirumala after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.
Party Chief losing two out of two seats that he contested from is a devastating blow to any political party let alone a new party.
Jana Sena Party (JSP) president K. Pawan Kalyan said on Sunday that his party, after losing the elections, had taken the shape of a proper political outfit, and called upon the cadres and leaders to be prepared to fight for the people’s issues.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday offered prayers at the hill temple of Lord Venkateswara.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that the BJP would meet the expectations of 130 crore Indians in the next five years and win their hearts by taking up massive welfare programmes, even as he made efforts to reach out to new Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
A section of media started speculating that Pawan Kalyan will be back to doing films after the humiliating defeat of his party in the recently concluded polls.
Former minister Ravela Kishore Babu, who resigned from the Telugu Desam Party in November last and joined Jana Sena Party headed by actor Pawan Kalyan, made yet another political somersault on Saturday.
When Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu was in power till recently, he made every attempt to woo the employees with various facilities – five-day week, raising of retirement age from 58 to 60 and construction of residential quarters for government employees in Amaravati etc.
Andhra Pradesh has now got a first woman home minister and not just that, a Dalit home minister.
