Supreme Hero Sai Dharam Tej's 'Chitralahari' shooting started today at Hyderabad.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is learnt to have taken the contest of Nandamuri Suhasini from Kukatpally very prestigiously, as any defeat for the NTR family will have serious impact on the party prospects in Andhra Pradesh as well.
The objective of the Maha Kootami to defeat the Telangana Rashtra Samithi seems to have gone for a toss with the four alliance partners – Congress, TDP, Telangana Jana Samithi and CPI – openly ditching one another fielding rebel candidates in several constituencies.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is understood to have decided not to entertain any lobbying to have an alliance with Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan, as the latter had crossed all limits in attacking the YSRC.
Telangana Congress has started giving B-forms to all its candidates as today is last day for nominations.
It is a common practise that whenever a political party enters into an alliance with any other party in the elections, their leaders wear “kanduwas” (upper scarf) representing both the parties while undertaking campaign.
Ms Nandamuri Venkata Suhasini, TD candidate for Kukatpally, has assets worth Rs 5.82 crore, according to the affidavit filed with her nomination papers.
Right from the beginning, there have been allegations against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi that it has a secret understanding with the Bharatiya Janata Party and both the parties would indirectly cooperate with each other.
It's more than a month since glamorous actress of Tollywood in yesteryears-turned-politician Vijayashanti was appointed as a star campaigner of the party for the assembly elections in Telangana.
A mega rally by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu is in the works as the two parties seek to cement partnership for upcoming Telangana Assembly elections and for the 2019 Lok Sabha battle.
After several young and senior Congress leaders like P Karthik Reddy, Boda Janardhan and P Shankar Rao, it is now the turn of former Telangana chief minister Marri Channa Reddy’s younger son Marri Shashidhar Reddy to turn a rebel for the party.
Popular Tollywood hero N T Rama Rao and his actor-producer brother Nandamuri Kalyan Ram have extended their support to their sister Nandamuri Suhasini who filed her nominations as a Telugu Desam Party candidate from Kukatpalli constituency in the ongoing assembly elections in Telangana.
Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan has not made any statement on contesting the assembly elections in Telangana unlike YSR Congress party which issued a categorical statement saying it would not fight the elections.
After making intense lobbying and spending sleepless nights in the corridors of New Delhi, former Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah finally managed to get the party ticket for contesting the assembly elections in Telangana from his own Jangaon constituency.
TDP founder N.T. Rama Rao's grand-daughter N. Suhasini, who is contesting the next month's elections to Telangana Assembly, on Saturday received support from her brothers and popular Telugu actors Junior NTR and Kalyan Ram and uncle and veteran actor N. Balakrishna.