It’s just 18 months to go for general elections in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. And it’s time for ‘aya rams” and “gaya rams” to shift their loyalties from one party to the other, where they feel they will have better political prospects.
YSR Congress party MP from Kurnool Butta Renuka is said to be in a Shakespearan dilemma to join or not to join the Telugu Desam Party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the Centre has been extending a lot of help to Andhra Pradesh government, or so do BJP leaders claim, in implementing various developmental programmes, but they feel the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP government has not been acknowledging the same.
With elections to the state assembly just 18 months away, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has started focussing on revamping the party at all levels and promote those who had been working hard for the party right from the beginning.
The surprising choice of Sunkara Pavani by the Telugu Desam Party leadership as the new Mayor of Kakinada Municipal Corporation on Saturday triggered unrest in the party.
After the YSR Congress party received a serious drubbing in the by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat and Kakinada Municipal Corporation elections, party’s firebrand MLA and actress R K Roja has virtually gone silent.
The merger of Hyderabad with the Indian union in 1948 was celebrated across Telangana on Sunday, with the unfurling of the national flag at the offices of political parties.
Telangana CM KCR has mastered the art of being at least one step ahead of his counterpart Andhra Pradesh CM Chandra Babu Naidu.
Becoming the Vice President of India has hardly reduced Venkaiah Naidu's bonding with Telugu states or his rather overt love for them.
Ever since the BJP has been taken over by Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, all the veterans and opponents in the party have been comprehensively sidelined. Except for Venkayya Naidu and Bandaru Datattreya!
It is a known fact that the ratings of Maa TV have gone up after it was acquired by Star TV Network and changed to Star Maa.
Telangana Congress party, which is desperate to come to power in the next elections, seems to be facing severe dearth of leaders who can work dedicatedly to the party’s victory.
YSR Congress party on Saturday took strong exception to the comments of Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu that leader of opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy should surrender all his additional assets acquired through alleged illegal means after 2004 to the government.
The appointment of Punjabi actress Poonam Kaur as the brand ambassador of handlooms in Andhra Pradesh has taken everybody by surprise.
The reports that Telugu Desam Party leadership is planning to field former glamorous actress Vani Vishwanath from Nagari assembly constituency against firebrand actress-turned-sitting MLA from YSR Congress party R K Roja really spiced up Andhra politics.