Telangana Rashtra Samithi has been defending the meeting between its working president K T Rama Rao with YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in Hyderabad early this week saying the meeting was meant for discussing formation of a federal front of regional parties at the national level.
Following are the snippets from the speeches of various leaders at the rally of anti-BJP parties at the Brigade Parade Ground here on Saturday.
In yet another rude shock to Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh high court on Saturday rejected his government's petition seeking to issue a stay on the National Investigation Agency’s investigation into the case of knife attack on YSR Congress party chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport on October 25.
Ever since chairman of national cricket selectors Mannava Sri Kanth Prasad said a year and half ago that his committee will start looking at alternatives to Mahendra Singh Dhoni only if the former captain fails to perform, both have been constantly under the scrutiny of the twitterati.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who had gone all the way to Kolkata to meet Trinamul Congress president West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to discuss the modalities of the federal front of regional parties, skipped the Saturday’s public meeting organized by her at Kolkata.
The massive rally with nearly a million people held at Kolkata by Trinamul Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have made Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister jubilant.
The Telangana government's Rythu Bandhu Scheme to provide investment support to every farmer has become part of national agenda of action, Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan said on Saturday.
In one of his sharpest attacks at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said "the prime minister is a publicity PM, but what we want is a performing prime minister."
Congress is traditionally known as the party of Reddys in Telugu states. The Reddy dominance is even more in Congress in Telangana compared to Andhra.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who was supposed to leave for London along with his family members on Thursday morning, suddenly drop his plan and stayed back in Hyderabad.
Once-bitten-twice-shy, former Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal is unlikely to commission any survey for the forthcoming elections in Andhra Pradesh for both Lok Sabha and state assembly.
Telangana will spend about Rs 1.17 lakh crore during the next five years to complete all projects to irrigate 1.25 crore acres, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao said on Friday.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president K T Rama Rao on Friday said the people of Andrha Pradesh had lost their faith in Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu because of his incompetence governance.
In a setback to Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the NIA special court in Vijayawada on Friday pulled up the Special Investigation Team of Andhra police for not cooperating with the central agency in its probe into the knife attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at Viskhapatnam airport on October 25.
The sudden decision of senior Congress leader Vanteru Pratap Reddy, who put up a strong fight against Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the recent assembly elections in Gajwel constituency, to join the TRS has come as a surprise and shock to many party leaders as well as political observers.