A big article published by Eenadu Telugu daily on Tuesday explaining how Visakhapatnam cannot become a capital city due to its distance from several parts of the state, particularly Rayalaseema and south coastal Andhra has kicked up a big debate in the media.
The assault on government whip and Macharla MLA Pinnelli Ramakrsihna Reddy is clear indication of how the caste works in Amaravati.
Social media has become a platform for circulating news quickly without even verifying whether it is correct or not. Most of the times, they are just rumours deliberately made viral to trouble some people.
Senior actor-producer and former MP Manchu Mohan Babu is all set to jump into the Bharatiya Janata Party along with his family members.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president and IT minister K T Rama Rao on Tuesday made an interesting comment on the possible opposition to his party in the coming elections.
Ever since Telugu Desam Party led by N Chandrababu Naidu faced a humiliating defeat in the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, his family business enterprise Heritage Foods has been showing a downward trend in the stock market.
In Andhra Pradesh, where caste plays dominant role in politics, it was not surprising that the row over the state capital Amaravati too has a caste angle to it.
It appears YSR Congress party MP from Narsapuram K Raghurama Krishnam Raju is gradually moving away from YSR Congress party, notwithstanding his comments in the media interviews earlier that he has not been defying the party at all.
Senior IRS officer Jasti Krishna Kishore was suspended by the AP government for the irregularities committed during his period as CEO of the AP Economic Development Board (APEDB).
For the last one week, farmers of Amaravati region have been agitating against the three capitals plan of YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The Union ministry of home affairs has directed the departments of finance and personnel and training to look into the allegations of financial frauds and money laundering activities by former Union minister and present Rajya Sabha member Y S Chowdary alias Sujana Chowdary.
The expert committee on capital development had finally met chief minister Jaganmohan Reddy and submitted its report to him on Friday.
It was only on Tuesday during the closing hours of winter session of the Andhra Pradesh state assembly that chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy came out with a sensational proposal of creating three capitals for the state – executive capital at Visakhapatnam, legislative capital at Amaravati and judicial capital at Kurnool.
It has been nine months since YSR Congress party leader and former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy was murdered at his own residence in Pulivendula, but the investigation into the case has not made any headway so far.
It looks like the YSR Congress party led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy chalked out a well-planned strategy to make an announcement on decentralisation of capitals for Andhra Pradesh, without giving any scope to the opposition to make it an issue in the assembly.
