The opposition TDP is leaving no stone unturned to wrest power in the state in the 2024 general elections.
YSR Congress party honourary president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s mother Y S Vijayamma has been keeping away from the party activities for the last three years.
If the reports coming from the national capital of Delhi are correct, the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is likely to shift Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan as the Governor of Telangana.
It has been exactly a week since YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy reconstituted his council of ministers and allotted them portfolios.
The talk of political strategist Prashant Kishor aka PK joining the Congress party has been going on in the national political circles for quite some time, though nothing has materialized so far.
After all the sound and fury over the formation of new Andhra Pradesh cabinet subsided, YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is learnt to have given specific targets to his new ministers to take on the political opponents.
The special sessions court for MP/MLAs at Nampally metropolitan courts in Hyderabad on Wednesday acquitted All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader in the Telangana state legislative assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi in two hate speech cases pertaining to Nirmal and Nizamabad districts.
The way senior YSR Congress party leader and former minister from Prakasam district Balineni Srinivas Reddy created a furore in the party over denial of cabinet berth in the reconstituted cabinet has become a hot topic of discussion in the party circles.
It is generally believed that the formation of new Andhra cabinet was done completely at the sole discretion of YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
It was only the other day that former information minister Perni Venkatramaiah declared at the press conference that chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy would not entertain any pairavee (lobbying) for the berths in the new cabinet formation.
Even as YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is doing hectic exercise on the formation of his new cabinet, speculations are going on the list of probable ministers to be inducted.
The BJP in Andhra Pradesh is currently aligned with the Jana Sena. The alliance was restored immediately after the two parties humiliating defeat in the 2019 general elections.
If YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has his way, the state is going to get one more district soon, taking the total number of districts from 26 to 27.
If the reports coming from New Delhi are to be believed, the Congress high command is understood to have stood solidly behind Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president A Revanth Reddy and gave a dressing down to the seniors.
April 7 is going to be a sad day for majority of the ministers in Andhra Pradesh, as chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to take their resignations on the day.
