The best way to go into one’s heart is through stomach, goes a saying. The politicians have been following this adage sincerely to win the hearts of the people by offering them sumptuous food at subsidised rates.
Last week, YSR Congress party missed the intense debate in the Lok Sabha over the injustice meted out to Andhra Pradesh in the implementation of the promises made in the bifurcation act because all its MPs had already resigned.
The biggest threat to a family in politics comes not from outside but within. This has been proved time and again in history.
When Pawan Kalyan launched his Jana Sena, he said he was starting his party to question the establishment and not for any power or posts. But recently, he revealed how Chandrababu Naidu had promised him a Rajya Sabha post and cheated him in 2014.
The no-confidence motion may have ended up as a win-win situation for both the BJP and the TDP.
Remember the television show Satyameva Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan which focused specifically on social issues of the nation?
Power makes all the difference. It gives a lot of power to even the small time leaders of the ruling party and they wield it on the weak people.
Pawan Kalyan once again visited the farers of Undavalli and other villages and asked the farmers not to give their lands to the government.
What we mean to say is that let us assume that the BJP actually wins a seat somewhere. You will then retire from politics and do what? The same thing that you are doing now.
For quite some time, maverick Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy had been hinting at quitting at politics. He even boycotted the recent debate on no-confidence motion moved by the TDP against Narendra Modi government in Lok Sabha.
Retired Supreme Court Judge Jasti Chelameswar, who created a nation-wide uproar by leading a batch of four judges to revolt aganst Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra a few months ago, seems to have joined the anti-Chandrababu Naidu bandwagon in Andhra Pradesh after his retirement.
When the Congress Working Committee adopted a resolution in July 2013 in favour of bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh to carve out separate Telangana state, the party hoped that it would get tremendous mileage in 2014 assembly elections in the new state.
It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is under pressure to move to New Delhi, leaving the state in the hands of his son K T Rama Rao.
Telugu Desam Party, which has made a futile attempt to corner the Narendra Modi government by moving a no-confidence motion on the injustice meted out to Andhra Pradesh, is now trying to fix Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha deputy chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.
At a meeting to review the progress of the Bathukamma sarees ordered for the festival, KTR lost his cool when officials told him that only 30 lakh sarees were available against the target of 60 lakhs.