Police are responding to an active shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, US state of Pennsylvania, media reports Saturday.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi is said to be trying to cash in on the disgruntlement in the Telangana Jana Samithi headed by Prof M Kodandaram over the inordinate delay by the Congress party in concluding the seat sharing for Maha Kootami or grand alliance.
YSR Congress party on Saturday described Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s sudden visit to Delhi to give himself a clean chit in the attack on YSRC president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s life was a disgrace to his position.
With the Congress party high command insisting that the Maha Kootami will have to be formed at any cost by accommodating all the three other alliance partners, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy is likely to be the first person to make sacrifices for the alliance.
YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday filed a plea before a special CBI court informing it about the attack on him at Visakhapatnam airport and his consequent hospitalisation and sought exemption from appearing before the court for Friday’s hearing.
The public outrage over the attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday and the decision of the party leaders to expose the conspiracy behind it in public has shaken Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
In a virtual slap on the face of Andhra Pradesh police, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday refused to give a statement on the Thursday’s attack on him at the Visakhapatnam airport.
Ever since there was an attempt on the life of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday afternoon, the Telugu Desam Party government, the Andhra Pradesh police and the TDP leaders sought to project it as a stage-managed show and a drama by the YSRC.
YSR Congress party on Friday filed a petition in Hyderabad High Court asking for an inquiry by a central investigation agency like CBI to probe into the alleged murder attempt on party president and leader of opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh agriculture minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy on Friday inadvertently revealed the criminal mentality of the party leadership, while referring to the attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday afternoon.
Addressing the media after the attack on YS Jagan, Chandrababu Naidu hinted at something really ludicrous.
In a bid to offset any public sympathy that might accrue to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as a result of the attack on him, the yellow media, Chandrababu Naidu and even the cops acting on instructions from the government are going all out to highlight the fact that the attacker is a YS Jagan fan.
While J Srinivasa Rao, identified as the attacker of YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy, was immediately nabbed after the attack, the motive for the attack continues to remain unclear.
Within hours of the attack on the life of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday afternoon, the Telugu Desam Party and the Andhra Pradesh police have made desperate bid to project that it was a stage-managed attack.
Even as the attacker who made an attempt on the life of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday afternoon is still being questioned, Andhra Pradesh police Director General of Police R P Thakur seems to have jumped the gun to give clean chit to the Telugu Desam Party in the case.