All eyes will be on 18 Lingayat MLAs from Congress and two from JD(S) when CM B S Yeddyurappa takes the floor test in the assembly on Saturday.
The 71 Congress MLAs and 35 JD(S) MLAs who came from Bengaluru were booked into two star hotels in Hyderabad in the name of a marriage party so that the BJP cannot zero down on their location.
The YSR Congress party on Friday demanded inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the missing of invaluable jewellery and financial transactions in the Tirumala temple administration.
The last week’s visit of Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah to Lord Venkateshwara Swamy temple at Tirumala seems to have cost temple head priest A V Ramana Deekshitulu his post.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao proved to be a good host to the Congress and Janata Dal MLAs from Karnataka, who drove to Hyderabad all the way from Bengaluru on Friday to escape from poaching by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Apparently realising that the ground is fast eroding under his feet, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has started doing emotional blackmailing of sorts with the people of the state.
Till a couple of months ago, power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan was not confident of his own strength.
The sudden decision of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) trust board to make chief priest of Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirumala A V Ramana Deekshitulu within a day of his allegation of financial irregularities in the TTD came in for sharp criticism from all sections.
The high political drama witnessed in Karnataka with the Bharatiya Janata Party virtually bulldozing into power with the support of Governor Vajubhai Wala seems to have given a new lease of life to the proposal to form a federal front in the country.
Actor-turned-Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Thursday asserted that there would be triangular fight in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019.
Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan has finally announced his “yatra” from May 20 to take his party into the people and prepare it to face the next assembly elections in 2019.
At a time when the assembly election results of Karnataka have become a major talking point across the length and breadth of the country for the last two days, chief ministers of both the Telugu states – N Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh and K Chandrasekhar Rao of Telangana – have not uttered a word so far.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday declared that he would do away with the retirement age of priests in all the temples in the State, if his party is voted to power in the next elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which emerged as the single largest party in Karnataka assembly elections and formed the government on Thursday, is now hoping to come to power in Andhra Pradesh as well.
For Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Ambani’s Reliance Group seems to be better than Airport Authority of India, a Central government organisation, in building an airport.
