Notwithstanding the claims of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu that he is providing a clean and efficient administration; there have been a lot of complaints against his own party MLAs at the ground-level.
This is really shocking to see that popular media has been writing negative stories on ministers who are in power, especially the Minister for Cinematography, Roads and Buildings, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, a few days ago, and today on Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, the Deputy CM of Telangana state.
Politics can be a lonely battlefield, especially when the tide turns. Roads and Buildings Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy appears to be facing that harsh reality as he battles defamatory reporting aired by a television news channel.
The just-concluded Sankranti festivities once again transformed large parts of coastal Andhra into sprawling, high-stakes gambling arenas, with cockfights emerging as the epicentre of betting that insiders estimate ran into thousands of crores of rupees.
Senior YSR Congress party leader and former Tadipatri MLA Kethireddy Pedda Reddy on Friday challenged the JC family to an open public debate anywhere in Rayalaseema on their 30 years of rule in Tadipatri versus his five-year tenure, saying development or politics can be the basis of the discussion.
Large-scale irregularities and corruption seem to have taken place in the custom milled rice (CMR) system during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi regime in Telangana, exposing what is considered to be a multi-thousand crore scam involving rice millers, political patronage and systematic diversion of public resources.
Six months ago, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu made a grandiose announcement that the Amaravati Quantum Valley National Workshop is set to commence in Vijayawada from January 1.
If the speculations doing rounds in the Andhra political circles in New Delhi are to be believed, Telugu Desam Party MP from Nellore Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy may be inducted into the Union cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the forthcoming expansion.
The latest episode of the arrest of two journalists belonging to popular Telugu television channel NTV in connection with allegedly defamatory and indecent coverage targeting a senior woman IAS officer has exposed the double standards of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the main opposition in Telangana.
The ruling alliance has three parties. Even though they have different ideologies, they are moving forward together with a single agenda.
As many as 73 Members of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha are set to retire between March and November this year, triggering a major round of elections and political realignments across several states.
Some news anchors on TDP-allied channels are amusing, and they even bring laughs to sympathizers of the opposing party with their clownish acts.
It appears the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh seems to be systematically undertaking image-building exercise by planting stories in the local and national media highlighting chief minister N Chandababu Naidu and his son, IT minister Nara Lokesh.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at the Kolkata office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), a popular political consultancy firm that plays a key strategic role in Indian electoral politics, has led to speculations in the political circles that the agency might focus on the firm’s past links with the YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh.
If reports from New Delhi are any indication, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to be preparing for a cabinet reshuffle ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget 2025–26 and upcoming assembly elections in several states.
