Speaking on the draft Telangana Bill in the assembly MLC Sheikh Hussain got it right when he said that the Seemandhra agitation was completely a people’s agitation and that politicians from the region were forced to join it for fear of being kicked out from their constituencies.
Ex minister JC Diwaker Reddy is trying his best to get into the Rajya Sabha. He spent the whole of Wednesday in garnering the support of 10 MLAs. Initially, Diwaker Reddy had approached MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who could not give him a clear indication.
In an highly emotional speech during the Samaikhya Sankharavam, YS Jagan called his opponents ‘dushta trayam’. His first target was Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi who he said could go to any extent to see her son Rahul Gandhi as the prime minister.
My former neighbour Edward Snowden (one of his hiding places was a hotel near my office) recently released his latest bombshell: US spies read 200 million text messages a day. Big deal. So does my daughter. She reads at least that number and probably writes twice as many.
It appears that the political plans of Nandamuri Balakrishna are almost getting finalized albeit by his Viyyankudu Chandrababu Naidu.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA K Taraka Rama Rao on Thursday gave notice of a privilege motion against the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for what he said as violating the procedures and practices of the Legislative Assembly.
Even as the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has made it clear several times that he was totally opposed to the Telangana Bill, the Congress high command seems to have a lot of faith in him in so far as bifurcation is concerned.
Senior Congress MLA J C Diwakar Reddy on Thursday clarified that he had enough support for contesting for the Rajya Sabha seat, election for which will be held on February 7.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday gave seven more days to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly to discuss and debate the draft Telangana Bill in the House before returning it to the Centre.
When you have a constitutional procedure for anything and everything what is Kejriwal’s objective in taking to the streets, especially in his capacity as the Chief Minister of Delhi is a moot point.
The BJP and anti-Telangana leaders led by Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy are threatening to upset the Manmohan Singh government's plans to get the statehood bill passed in Parliament before the national election, due by May.
In the latest incident involving ex minister JC Diwaker Reddy, it is being said that a war of words broke out between him and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana.
The enthusiasm and fanfare which greeted the establishment of the new political start-up, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), is fast evaporating. It has only itself to blame.
Young leader Kotagiri Sreedhar, the son of Late Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao, is almost confirmed to get BJP MP ticket from Eluru constituency.