It has been nearly five years since Nara Lokesh, the only son of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, came into politics.
After more than two months, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is going to New Delhi to participate in the NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting on June 17.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and discussed various issues related to the state.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who left for New Delhi on Thursday evening, is expected to stay put in the national capital for four days.
What is believed to be a casual luncheon meeting between YSR Congress party MLA Buggana Rajendranath Reddy and BJP MLA Akula Satyanarayana in New Delhi has triggered a political storm in Andhra Pradesh.
KCR who will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today will also be making use of the opportunity to be meeting the heads of some regional parties SP, BSP, NCP and Left Parties to examine the feasibility of an anti-Congress/BJP federal front.
The 12-point memorandum submitted by Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh unit president Kanna Lakshminarayana to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday has covered almost all the pending issues pertaining to the state, except two.
There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that BJP is keen on making inroads into South India including Andhra Pradesh.
Nirav Modi who is accused of cheating the Punjab National Bank to the tune of more than Rs 13,000 crore has sought asylum in the United Kingdom citing 'political persecution' in India.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh is trying to gain political mileage by slinging mud at the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for not giving nod to the Kadapa steel plant, the Telangana Congress party is making a similar attempt to corner the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi by not taking up Bayyaram steel plant in Khammam.
A day after the Union ministries of steel and mines and finance submitting counter-affidavits in the Supreme Court stating that it is not feasible to set up steel plant at Kadapa, the Bharatiya Janata Party was forced to go on the defensive.
The Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, which is virtually on the death bed, is making a desperate attempt to get some life before the 2019 elections.
The Telangana Congress party has accused chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi of indirectly helping the Bharatiya Janata Party with the sole intention of preventing the Congress from coming to power in the state.
It is now more or less certain that former minister and senior leader from Nellore Anam Ramnarayana Reddy is all set to quit the Telugu Desam Party.
It is an open secret that KCR has a tacit understanding with the BJP. And it is this pact which gives rise to the assumption that the BJP will not call for early polls in 2019. The reason is KCR’s focus on the Sarpanch elections.
