Social media circles on Saturday were agog with reports that veteran Tollywood director K Raghavendra Rao is going to be appointed as the chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Trust Board.
Popular television channel TV9 always looks for controversial topics and conducts debates on it to get its TRP ratings shoot up ahead of others.
A day after threatening the Centre that his government would explore the option of moving the Supreme Court on the implementation of the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act to secure justice to Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu sought to clarify that his comments were not against the Bharatiya Janata Party or Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The recent meeting of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring pressure on the latter to implement the promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act has kicked up a lot of debate in the political circles.
Perhaps for the first time after three and a half years, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu spoke in a threatening tone against the NDA government at the Centre headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for neglecting the state despite repeated requests.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday took serious exception to the comments made by his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao that AP was no way near Telangana and that there was no comparison between the two states.
Strange are the ways of our political leaders. They give leaks to the media and within a few hours, they deny the same. But finally, they do what they really want to do.
The war of words in the social media and electronic media between Telugu film critic Kathi Mahesh and fans of actor-politician Pawan Kalyan has now gone to the police station.
National media channel Republic TV headed by Arnab Goswami came out with the findings of its survey on who will have the advantage if elections are held right now in Andhra Pradesh.
The conspicuous absence of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at the Samadhi of party founder and former chief minister N T Rama Rao in Hyderabad on Thursday to pay homage to the departed leader on the latter’s 22nd death anniversary, has become a matter of debate in the political and media circles.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former minister Mothkupalli Narasimhulu’s comments that the Telangana TDP should merge with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi to boost the sagging morale of the party cadre created ripples in the political circles.
Tamil and Hindi movie actor Kamal Haasan has said he feels that the sharing of taxes by the central government is discriminatory and if all the southern states celebrate Dravidianism then the discrimination may not be there.
It is a known fact that the Telangana Telugu Desam Party is in dire straits. A dozen of its MLAs and its lone MP joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
With his much-hyped film Agnyathavasi turning out to be the biggest disaster in his career, power star Pawan Kalyan is learnt to have become terribly disappointed so much so that he has stopped evincing interest in any activity, including his political activities.
Many speculations are doing rounds about director Boyapati's next movies, but the director is concentrating on his immediate film that is going to start rolling from Jan 19.
