With the Election Commission announcing the schedule for general elections for Lok Sabha and the State Assembly, there is little scope for new political parties to enter the poll fray at this stage.
Andhra Pradesh is set to be split into two states in June and simultaneous elections to the state assembly and the Lok Sabha are scheduled to be held in the state April 30 and May 7.
The Congress, which retained power in Andhra Pradesh in 2009, faces a tough challenge in both the successor states that will see assembly and Lok Sabha elections in April-May.
One development triggers and impacts various other happenings. While Pawan Kalyan is likely to join politics or at least extend his support to some political party other than the Congress, his brothers are caught up in a dilemma.
The election schedule has been issued and political leaders from various parties are busy planning ahead.
Now that bifurcation has become a reality, everyone is eagerly waiting to see if KCR would merge TRS with the Congress party.
He has announced that he will be making an important statement within a week. Pawan Kalyan has been claiming that he will make an announcement that will rattle the very basis of the system.
Laxmi, a victim of acid attack and a standard-bearer for the movement to end acid attacks, has been selected by the US for the prestigious International Women of Courage Award.
Some Telangana Congress leaders still seem to have hopes on forging an alliance with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, if not a merger, though TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao has ruled out both.
If the bifurcation episode of Andhra Pradesh can be compared with Ramayana, who is Rama and who is Ravana?
Andhra Pradesh is likely to witness a photo finish between the TDP and YSR Congress in the Lok Sabha elections while in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK-Left alliance is likely to end up marginally ahead of DMK, said an election survey Tuesday.
With the Telangana Rashtra Samithi ditching the Congress outright, the Congress high command has decided to intensify its campaign to get the maximum mileage in the region.
Union minister Jairam Ramesh here on Tuesday announced that the Centre would soon constitute an experts' committee to identify the area for locating capital for the residual Andhra Pradesh State.
The 29th State of Telangana will officially come into existence on June 2. An announcement to this effect was made by the Centre on Tuesday evening.
Sahara chief Subrata Roy, who was sent in judicial custody for a week in Delhi by the Supreme Court today, will be kept in high-security Tihar prison where he will sleep on the floor and eat jail food like an ordinary prisoner.