
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday gave a big relief to all the sitting MLAs of his party saying they would get the party tickets in the 2019 elections, too.

If reports doing rounds in social media circles are to be believed, former IPS officer and ex-joint director of CBI V V Lakshminarayana is most likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party sooner or later.

Former minister and senior leader from Guntur Kanna Lakshminarayana, who was supposed to join the YSR Congress party on April 25, deferred his plan and joined the hospital instead with complaints of high blood pressure and exertion.

At last, the two warring groups in Allagadda led by tourism minister Bhuma Akhila Priya and senior Telugu Desam Party leader A V Subba Reddy agreed to sink their differences, at least for now, and work for strengthening of the party in the constituency.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is going to set the agenda for the party’s role in national politics at the 17th plenary session of the TRS to be held at Kompally on Friday.

YSR Congress party on Thursday suspected a big scam in the proposal to establish Anna NTR canteens by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and said it was aimed at making big money at the cost of poor people.

Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan was supposed to tour parts of Chittoor district on April 21, 22 and 23 and is also scheduled to visit parts of Bapatla in Guntur district on April 30.

Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan, who has been waging a war against certain media houses owing allegiance to Telugu Desam Party for the last few days, landed in trouble on Friday with the police filing a criminal case against him.

Union minister for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athavale on Thursday extended open invitation to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy into the National Democratic Alliance headed by Bharatiya Janata Party.

Former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation V V Lakshminarayana finally got relieved of his duties as an IPS officer and straightaway entered the public fray.

Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is generally very cautious in making comments against others. If he made any criticism against people in higher positions like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he would have done it after assessing its pros and cons.

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is learnt to have dropped his plan in making his party MLAs resign from their assembly membership on the plank of special category status to AP to put a psychological pressure on Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

In a strange development, Telugu Desam Party leaders in Visakhapatnam file a case under SC/ST Atrocities Act against their own MLA Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar representing Visakhapatnam South constituency. He is also city TDP president.

The internal wrangling in the Telugu Desam Party in Allagadda in Kurnool district reached its peak with the warring groups led by tourism minister Bhuma Akhila Priya and senior TDP leaver A V Subba Reddy in Allagadda continuing to indulge in clashes.

The latest raids by the Income Tax department sleuths on the properties of Karnataka Energy Minister D K Sivakumar and his associates and also of H C Mahadevappa, the right hand of chief minister Siddaramaiah in different parts of Karnataka seem to have had their echo in Andhra Pradesh.