Telugu Desam Party legislator from Payakaraopet in Visakhapatnam district V Anitha had been in the news for more than a year, thanks to her confrontation with YSR Congress party MLA R K Roja.
It looks like YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has virtually created a split in the alliance between Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Telangana joint action committee president Prof M Kodandaram has really become a tough nut to crack for Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Jaleel Khan is a unique person in the history of India. Never before and never again will there be a person with his kind of educational qualification: B.Com (Physics). Naturally, with such a unique distinction, Jaleel Khan is peeved at being left out of the cabinet.
YSR Congress party president and Leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's crusade against Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu for giving cabinet berths to four of his party MLAs who defected to the TDP seems to be getting wider support from unexpected quarters, particularly the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Soon after Nara Lokesh, Telugu Desam Party general secretary and newly inducted minister in his father N Chandrababu Naidu cabinet, was given the portfolio of Information Technology and Panchayat Raj portfolios, people have started comparing him with his counterpart in Telangana, K T Rama Rao, son of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Maverick evangelist K A Paul, who was in a virtual oblivion for several years, has been back in the news for the last few days, particularly taking pot shots at Telugu Desam Party general secretary and newly-inducted minister in Andhra Pradesh cabinet Nara Lokesh.
Political circles in Andhra Pradesh are agog with rumours that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has asked the four newly-inducted ministers, who belong to the YSR Congress party but defected to the TDP in the past, to resign from their assembly membership and contest the by-elections again.
Land for tiller – was once a famous slogan, mostly popular among the Communists. Media baron Cherukuri Ramoji Rao was also a hard core Communist activist.
11 Ministers took oath at the Secretariat in Velagapudi on Sunday. Normally, the oath is administered in the name of God but legislators can also take oath in the name of their conscience.
Media has been carrying reports of how Nandamuri Balakrishna hugged Nara Lokesh after the latter took oath as MLC and how the entire family of Balakrishna made it to the swearing-in ceremony of Lokesh.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has accused the TRS Government of trying to influence media coverage of various events or incidents in Telangana State.
Chandrababu Naidu's good friend Pawan Kalyan always advocates honesty and clean politics. He gives the impression of speaking from the heart in a society which operates according to the mind.
Telangana Minister for Cinematography and Commercial Taxes Talasani Srinivasa Yadav, who continues to be the Telugu Desam Party member despite defecting to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi two and a half years ago, has now got the excellent opportunity to take on his former boss, TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
In a letter to the Governor, Jagan said the four ministers – Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao, N Amarnath Reddy, Bhuma Akhila Priya and Ch Adinarayana Reddy – were elected on YSR Congress party B form and later defected to the TDP along with 17 others without resigning from their posts.
