Though there are still 15 months to go for the general elections in Andhra Pradesh, the election atmosphere is gradually building up in the state.
The US has resumed fast processing of H-1B work visas in all categories subject to Congress-mandated limit, five months after it was suspended temporarily to handle the huge rush of applications for the work visas popular among Indian IT professionals.
Former minister Konathala Ramakrishna, who has been virtually jobless in politics ever since he came out of the YSR Congress party a couple of years ago, seems to have decided that attacking ruling Telugu Desam Party and its president N Chandrababu Naidu is the only way to get into political limelight.
On one hand, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu says that the prestigious Polavaram project would be completed in all aspects at any cost by 2019. On the other, he says the project still needs Rs 39,000 crore for completion.
A few years to, whenever NTR's film was up for release, people from Kamma community used to get bulk messages from unknown sources asking them not to watch his movie.
Political observers are speculating exactly who the government will field come September 20 to counter him, for that's the day Rahul Gandhi will be addressing 4,000 NRIs at the Marriott Hotel in New York.
The much-hyped “Bathukamma Saree” scheme of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has smacks of a big scam, if one were to go by the criticism of the opposition parties.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who indulged in a lot of favouritism and nepotism in promoting companies like Transstroy (owned by TDP MP from Narsaraopet Rayapati Sambasiva Rao) and Larsen and Toubro till recently, is now trying to disown them following criticism from various sections of people for their poor quality of work.
The controversial social activist and retired political science professor Kancha Ilaiah, known for his aggressive attack on all upper castes, seems to have gone virtually mad.
It looks like the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party has still kept its doors open for the friendship with Telangana Rashtra Samithi, while the state BJP leaders are going up in arms against the TRS leadership.
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.