Pawan Kalyan has played it safe when it comes to Telangana polls. His refrained from contesting the polls as they have much before than the scheduled date.
As curtains drawn on campaigning in Telangana on Wednesday, battle lines are clearly drawn for the first full-fledged Assembly elections in India's youngest state with the ruling TRS and Congress-led People's Front locked in a tough fight.
The latest war of words between Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan and YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has surprised everybody, while the pro-Telugu Desam Party media has been merrily celebrating the wordy-duel.
Former Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal is known for his near accurate predictions in the elections and so, his surveys enjoy a lot credibility among the people.
Telugu Desam Party, which has partnered with the Congress and other parties in Telangana to form Maha Kootami in the ongoing elections in the state, has allegedly been funding the expenditure of the alliance partners in several constituencies.
Lagadapati Rajagopal is constantly in the news for his electoral predictions and unfortunately, it remains his only credential for hogging media attention.
The Congress Party is notorious for infighting and at any given time, there exist a number of factions within the Party vying for control.
After coming to power in 2014, Chandrababu Naidu had formed the Brahmin and Kapu Corporations as both these communities had voted for the TDP in the election. But now, the Corporations are divided houses beset with infighting.
Both TRS and Maha Kutami are indulging in mind games. At behest of TDP supremo Nara Chandrababu Naidu, a section of media has been leaking reports that ‘Kutami’ is in advantage position.
Former MP Lagadapati Rajagopal picked the Congress-led Mahakutami when asked who would win the December 7 Telangana assembly elections.
Muslims and the "settlers" from the coastal and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh are likely to play a crucial role in the electoral fortunes of the candidates in 24 constituencies falling under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Nandamuri Balakrishna is on a campaign trail in Hyderabad and speeches are going viral on Youtube as people are sharing it to have some good laughs. Balakrishna is infamous for speaking incoherent way with stuttering.
With just three days left for the elections to the Telangana assembly, popular television channel TV9 sought to provoke the Congress party by airing a pre-election survey on Monday night and demoralise the party by spreading serious charges against Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan, who declared that his party would not be contesting assembly elections in Telangana, has been keeping tight-lipped over which party he would support in the state.
The campaign is aimed at igniting "Telangana sentiment" to the peak on the plank of ‘self-pride.
