With the campaigning for Telangana Assembly elections coming to an end on Wednesday, all the political parties were Tuesday busy in their last-minute bid to woo the voters.
Former MP Lagadapati Rajagopal picked the Congress-led Mahakutami when asked who would win the December 7 Telangana assembly elections.
Muslims and the "settlers" from the coastal and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh are likely to play a crucial role in the electoral fortunes of the candidates in 24 constituencies falling under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Nandamuri Balakrishna is on a campaign trail in Hyderabad and speeches are going viral on Youtube as people are sharing it to have some good laughs. Balakrishna is infamous for speaking incoherent way with stuttering.
With just three days left for the elections to the Telangana assembly, popular television channel TV9 sought to provoke the Congress party by airing a pre-election survey on Monday night and demoralise the party by spreading serious charges against Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan, who declared that his party would not be contesting assembly elections in Telangana, has been keeping tight-lipped over which party he would support in the state.
The campaign is aimed at igniting "Telangana sentiment" to the peak on the plank of ‘self-pride.
It's quite ironical that KCR has preferred to ignore students, youth and unemployed, who spearheaded Telangana statehood agitation, sacrificed their career and lives, faced police lathis and cases for the cause of achieving statehood for Telangana.
Amid a high-octane campaign in Telangana for December 7 polls, Congress candidate from Kodangal and party’s working president from Telangana, Revanth Reddy, was detained and taken into preventive custody earlier on Tuesday.
MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was behind the police attack on him in 1999 as he was to campaign for the Congress party.
The various pre-poll surveys that are being churned out by various agencies and individuals over the outcome of assembly elections in Telangana are creating a confusion of sorts in the people.
During the ongoing elections to Telangana assembly, Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders have been alleging that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is controlling the Maha Kootami and the Congress party is taking directions from him on every issue.
The ongoing assembly elections in Telangana are throwing up some interesting and peculiar situations.
Jubilee Hills area is home to rich and famous in Hyderabad. But Jubilee Hills assembly constituency also covers many slums and middle-class localities.