It has been more than two weeks since the demonetisation was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi causing immense hardship to the common people.
The much-publicised meeting between Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and the YSR Congress party MLAs on Friday was on expected lines: both the sides sought to use the opportunity to gain political mileage.
People might have forgotten Lok Satta founder-president and former MLA Dr Jayaprakash Narayan long ago and he, too, had wound up the political party and converted it into just an NGO. But now and then, he surfaces from nowhere and gives lectures on key issues.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s tours in different parts of Andhra Pradesh to take up people’s issues are learnt to be causing a lot of troubles at the “field level.”
It is hardly a month since the entire Andhra Secretariat moved to its new complex at Velagapudi in Amaravati and officials are yet to settle down completely. But, for corruption, there is no such hurdles.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader P Manikyala Rao, who holds endowments portfolio in the Telugu Desam Party cabinet in Andhra Pradesh, has landed chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in an embarrassing position by going to the residence of mining tycoon and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in Bellary a couple of days ago.
If the reports from Telugu Desam Party are to be believed, party general secretary Nara Lokesh is most likely to be promoted as the working president of the party sooner or later.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who entered his new official-cum-residential bungalow at Begumpet on Thursday, sought to defend the construction of the new complex, saying it was only for the all-round development of the state.
The demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi government has created more troubles to Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu than his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Demonetisation seems to have had a major impact on the financial strategies of many big shots in the country including cinema stars.
Two popular Telugu television channels are facing the allegations of manipulating their viewership so as to climb up the ratings data.
The Income Tax department created a big hungama by raiding the houses and offices of mining tycoon and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and serving him notices asking him to explain the details of expenditure incurred on his daughter’s wedding the other day.
The government’s decision to recall high-value banknotes two weeks ago was implemented with “monumental mismanagement” that may shave off at least 2 percentage points from India’s GDP, former prime minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament on Thursday.
Megastar Chiranjeevi is happy that the romantic duets he shot with Kajal Agarwal in Croatia and Slovenia have come out well.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s plan of forcing his party MPs to quit their posts and contest again in the by-elections on the plank of special category status is said to have been put on the backburner.
