In a rude shock to Telugu Desam Party, former minister and senior party leader from Nellore Adala Prabhakar Reddy did a complete somersault on Friday. He is all set to join the YSR Congress party.
The Congress party which has not been able to find suitable candidates for contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, had no option but to field those who had lost the previous elections.
He is a senior actor with multiple weddings. The actor with many assets in Hyderabad and in other places has always been known as lady's man.
In a rapidly changing political scenario in Andhra Pradesh, there has been large scale of defection of leaders from one party to another.
Battered by defections of its leg, the Congress in Telangana on Friday announced candidates for eight out of the state's 17 Lok Sabha seats.
YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday demanded a CBI probe into the "murder" of party leader and his uncle Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy.
The murder of former MP and ex-minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, brother of former chief minister of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at his residence in Pulivendula of Kadapa district on Friday morning created a huge sensation in the state.
At time when everybody appears to have forgotten Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham as the electioneering has picked up the momentum, the Telugu Desam Party suddenly laid a trap for him.
The Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati and the Jana Sena Party led by actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan on Friday announced their alliance for the Lok Sabha election.
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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Friday alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh were behind the murder of party leader Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy.
A man from Hyderabad was among those shot at in the horrific massacre at one of the two mosques in New Zealand's Christchurch city on Friday.
With six MLAs crossing over to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the last 15 days, the opposition Congress party in Telangana looks demoralised ahead of next month's Lok Sabha elections.
The post mortem conducted on YS Vivekananda Reddy, former legislator, minister and brother of late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy revealed what YSRCP leaders and family members had been suspecting since the time news of his demise in suspicious circumstances, broke out.
The younger generation is all set to take up the mantle in Andhra Pradesh politics as ministers and senior leaders of ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have opted out of electoral race to make way for their political successors.
The indecisiveness of former Anakapalle MP and former minister Konathala Ramakrishna in chalking out his future course of action all these days seems to have cost him dearly in Andhra Pradesh politics.