The war of words between maverick film maker Ram Gopal Varma and senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has reached an interesting turn with the former challenging the former MP to counter him publicly on his comments on the controversial kissing scenes in the Telugu film Arjun Reddy scheduled to be released on Friday.
Former Vijayawada MP and industrialist Lagadapati Rajagopal, who had quit politics soon after bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh state, has decided against returning to active politics.
It looks like faction politics are back in Nandyal, which had once witnessed brutal killings with gun fights and bomb attacks.
Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumantha Rao took serious exception to ace director Ram Gopal Varma for saying that he (VH) was feeling envious of upcoming actor Vijay Devarakonda whose kissing scenes in his latest movie Arjun Reddy have become controversial.
Ajith Kumar has huge mass fan following in Tamil Nadu and he had earlier teamed with director Siva for Veeram and Vedhalam. Both the films had been big hits in Tamil and when Vivegam was announced it created equally huge hype.
That all is not well between Bharatiya Janata Party and its political ally Telugu Desam Party was once again evident from the comments made by the BJP leaders at Sankalp Siddi meeting at Amaravati on Wednesday.
The high-voltage by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat held on Wednesday generated so much interest among the people of the entire Andhra Pradesh state that the outcome has become highly unpredictable.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the land scams and tampering of land record cases in Visakhapatnam district, seems to be passing its time and letting the case fizzle out on its own, instead of finding out the real culprits.
Normally in any by-elections, the percentage of polling will be less compared to general election, because voters show a lot of apathy in coming to polling stations within a short span of two or three years.
Within a couple of hours of receiving the orders from the Election Commission of India, the Nandyal police on Wednesday booked a criminal case against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for his alleged shoot-Chandrababu-in-public remarks against Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at a public meeting in Nandyal on August 3.
While the Election Commission of India has issued a warning to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for his aggressive comments against chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu during the electioneering in Nandyal, it has surprisingly not taken cognizance of the media conference held by Naidu on Tuesday evening, a few hours before the commencement of polling.
It is a known fact that Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh is the heir apparent of his father and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The Election Commission of India has taken serious note of the tone and tenor of the aggressive comments made by YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy against Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu during his speeches in Nandyal as part of his election campaign.
Just recently Dil Raju announced that Nani starrer "MCA" will release on December 21. But sources tell us that he might change his plans as he doesn’t want to hurt Nagarjuna.
Voters in the Nandyal constituency, who have witnessed a flurry of activity allthese days, are finally ready to seal the fate of the contesting candidates on Wednesday. The polling begins at 7 am and continues till 6 pm.