The letter written by Jerusalem Mathaiah, one of the accused in the sensational cash for vote case involving Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, to Supreme Court on Friday evening, has created ripples in the political circles.
That the Telangana Congress party leaders never learn from their debacles and past mistakes is once again evident from their plan to tour entire Telangana in the run-up to the next assembly elections.
The opposition parties are gearing up for a big agitation in Visakhapatnam in protest against the leasing out of precious 14 acres of land at Harbour Park to UAE-based LuLu group for development of an International Convention Centre, a huge mall and a five star hotel.
Television channels in the Telugu states always look for some spicy issues to increase their viewership. For the last few weeks, the confrontation between the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party has provided the much-needed spicy fodder for the channels.
Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT and panchayat raj minister Nara Lokesh, who has been keeping away from political comments for quite some for reasons known only to him, once again made an interesting comment on Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been facing a severe existential crisis following the attack from all political parties including its ally Telugu Desam Party, for not doing justice to Andhra Pradesh with regard to special category status, has started playing the Rayalaseema card to outwit its critics.
The notices issued by the Mauritius government to Indian government seeking to move the International Court of Justice for arbitration in the case of investments in InduTech special economic zone on the city outskirts has given much needed fodder to the yellow media to target YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
Andhra Pradesh will get nothing more from the Centre and it will be a futile exercise to still negotiate with Delhi bosses, according to Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy.
The comments made by YSR Congress party MP V Vijay Sai Reddy describing some senior IAS officers and an IPS officer in the Andhra Pradesh government as agents of ruling Telugu Desam Party have triggered uproar in political circles.
Whenever the opposition YSR Congress party made an allegation that the ruling Telugu Desam Party has been indulging in large scale corruption, whether it is National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) works or in developmental works in rural areas through Janmabhoomi committees, the TDP leaders including chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu strongly denied the same.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has been playing hide and seek for the last few days over the demand for Special Category Status to AP, came out in the open on Thursday.
When eldest brother from mega family Chiranjeevi launched his political party Praja Rajyam, he used depend heavily on Eenadu reporter Kurasala Kannababu (elder brother of film director Kalyan Krishna) for political advices.
The demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh has been gaining momentum across the state with all the political parties and people’s organisations making it a sentimental issue for the people.
Senior leader and former minister in the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet in the combined Andhra Pradesh Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who had been maintaining silence over his political journey for quite some time, quietly joined the Congress party a couple of days ago.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who never made any attempt to secure special category status to Andhra Pradesh and instead, compromised on the special financial package, has now started singing the special category status tune, albeit in a low tone.
