In a strange development, the Bharatiya Janata Party high command on Saturday announced continuation of Visakhapatnam MP Kambhampati Hari Babu as the president of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.
The YSR Congress party on Friday accused Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of enacting high dramas with regard to protesting against Centre for the injustice meted out to the state in the Central budget.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is gradually inching towards capturing power in Andhra Pradesh in the next elections, according to the results of the online poll conducted by Greatandhra.com on his padayatra.
Andhra Pradesh endowments minister P Manikyala Rao is a member of the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet. Therefore, he is bound by the collective responsibility of the council of ministers. Whatever he says, it is construed as the opinion of the entire cabinet.
At a time when the political leaders and people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are fuming at the Centre for doing gross injustice to both the Telugu states in the Union budget introduced on Thursday, one man who is expecting to change the politics of the states has not uttered a single word so far.
The disproportionate assets and money laundering case filed by Enforcement Directorate against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seems to be fizzling out as one after the other is getting the relaxation from the court.
At a time when every Telugu Desam Party MP and minister is bringing pressure on party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to break the alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party, finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu seems to be opposed to the idea.
The YSR Congress party leadership is said to be in second thoughts over forging alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next general elections scheduled to be held in April/May, 2019.
Is Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu really serious on quitting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) or is he just enacting a drama to fool the people?
In a full-frontal attack on the Centre, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which is an ally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), expressed its unhappiness and discontent after Andhra Pradesh did not appear in the two-hour long budget speech of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
After much dilly dallying, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu finally cleared the name of Putta Sudhakar Yadav senior TDP leader from Mydukuru in Kadapa district, as the new chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams trust board.
The ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh is likely to end up being in the opposition party with just 50 per cent of its present strength in the next assembly elections, if one were to go by the latest survey purportedly done by former Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal.
The way the Telugu Desam Party reacted to the Union budget presented by finance minister Arun Jaitely made one wonder whether the party would say bye-bye to National Democratic Alliance soon.
The other day, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has hinted that his party is ready to face the early elections if held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections.
It looks like prominent industrialist, philanthropist from Nellore Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy is paying a price for defecting from Telugu Desam Party to YSR Congress party.