YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is leaving no stone unturned to attack his arch rival Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and gain political mileage before 2019 elections.
Strange are the ways of the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders. While the party leaders from Telangana have been constantly attacking the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the state, their central leaders, who are coming to Telangana to participate in the Hyderabad liberation day programmes, are showering praises on KCR and his leadership.
In a surprising development, former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham on Monday went to the residence of senior TDP leader and Rajahmundry MLA Gorantla Buchaiah Chowdary and closeted with him for some serious discussions.
Despite taking training from a language expert and also undergoing 'treatment' from psychological experts in change of mind set, Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh does not seem to have improved his public speaking skills.
Everybody, including senior leaders of YSR Congress party like Nellore MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, are now finding fault with its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for making inflammatory comment -- “Naidu should be shot dead in public” and other such remarks, which resulted in the party’s debacle in the Nandyal assembly by-elections recently.
For any political party, the most important component is the party cadre at the grass root level. Without a strong cadre base and proper networking between the top leadership and the cadre, no political party can succeed in any election and come to power.
After the recent debacle of the YSR Congress party in by-elections to Nandyal assembly seat, followed by Kakinada municipal corporation elections, there was a lot of introspection in the party.
Nobody can repair the damaged the Congress party. And if at all there is anybody who can damage the prospects of the party in the elections, it is none other than the Congress leader himself.
Last week, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy launched an innovative scheme in the name of 'YSR Kutumbam' designed by the team of his political strategist Prashant Kishore, with a view to enrolling into the party at least one crore new members, who were in the past beneficiaries of various welfare schemes introduced by YSR.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy’s latest announcement that the party would come out with its own media house – a new daily newspaper and a television channel – has come as a surprise to many.
With the Congress Party drawing a blank in the Nandyal by-election and Kakinada Municipal elections, the writing is pretty much on the wall.
Communications Advisor in the government of Andhra Pradesh, Parakala Prabhakar, has further strengthened his position.
Congress MLA A. Sampath Kumar has accepted the challenge posed by Finance Minister Etala Rajender for an open debate on Dalits' welfare.
Going by the reports from the YSR Congress party camp, party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has decided to give complete powers to newly-hired political strategist Prashant Kishor and entrust the entire responsibility on him to steer the party to victory in the next elections.
In an attempt to gain a psychological edge over the YSR Congress party following the recent Nandyal assembly by-elections and Kakinada municipal corporation elections, the ruling Telugu Desam Party appears to be desperate to engineer defection of more and more YSRC leaders.
