Both KCR and KTR at separate interactions with the media raised the same point: Congress lost the municipal elections in Amethi, Rahul Gandhi’s home constituency.
Telugu Desam Party chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might be claiming himself to be a master strategist and thinking he is pushing the Bharatiya Janata Party to corner, but there is one person in the BJP who has become a thorn in his flesh and is giving him sleepless nights.
Tightening the noose around the family of veteran Telangana leader and Rajya Sabha member D Srinivas, the Nizamabad police on Friday filed a case against his son and former Nizamabad mayor D Sanjay under Nirbhaya Act
It is now more or less certain that Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan will have a pre-poll alliance with the Left parties – CPI and CPI (M) in the 2019 elections.
There seems to more to the latest allegations of sexual harassment of girls by D Sanjay, son of veteran politician and Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s Rajya Sabha member D Srinivas, than what meets the eye.
With elections to the Andhra Pradesh assembly fast approaching, political parties have started indulging in attacks against one another using social media as a platform.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is peeved at Narendra Modi saying that KCR displayed more maturity than Naidu and that Chandrababu had been outsmarted by the younger YS Jagan.
A few months ago, it was Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who kicked up a nation-wide debate on floating a third political alternative to the Congress and the BJP at the national level.
Former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, who returned to the Congress party fold recently, is learnt to have dampened the spirits of some of his party leaders who want to indirectly back the Telugu Desam Party in the next elections to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party.
This seems to be the season of U-turns and the BJP, Chandrababu Naidu and KCR are leading from the front.
Former Telangana minister Mothkupalli Narasimhulu, who has been expelled from the Telugu Desam Party on disciplinary grounds a couple of months ago, seems to have finally found a platform to sustain his political career.
The Congress party has discovered a new word to attack the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders who have been making aggressive remarks against Congress bosses Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The Joint Action Committee of the various Kapu organisations has fixed yet another deadline to the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister N Chadrababu Naidu to find a solution to the reservations to Kapus in education and employment.
There were reports in the past that YSR Congress party leadership reportedly asked its firebrand MLA from Nagari R K Roja to hold her tongue and maintain restraint while attacking the Telugu Desam Party in general and its president N Chandrababu Naidu in particular.
At the receiving end from various quarters for his frequent change of stance on important issues such as SCS, Kapu reservation etc, Chandrababu Naidu has hit back at detractors saying that he has taken a ‘right turn’ and not a U-turn.
