A Telugu woman and her son died in a car accident in USA on Monday. The woman Sushma was the wife of one Chattupally Ratnakar, a native of Vijayawada who had settled in California in the USA a few years back.
It is now official. Telangana real estate tycoon and My Home Group chairman Jupalli Rameshwar Rao wanted to buy popular Telugu television channel TV9, but the deal did not work out.
Telangana Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kodandaram came down heavily on chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for constructing a new residence-cum-office complex for himself at a time when the farmers were dying due to lack of seeds and fertilisers.
It is now more or less certain that former MP M V Mysoora Reddy is going to join the Telugu Desam Party shortly.
The “flash survey” conducted by Andhra Jyothy indicating that if elections are held now, Telugu Desam Party would retain power by winning 120 out of 175 assembly seats, has failed to perturb the opposition, headed by YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
At a time when there was a talk everywhere that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is caring a damn for Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the latter got a pleasant surprise on Monday.
The “flash survey” conducted by Andhra Jyothy projecting bright prospects for the ruling Telugu Desam Party and dwindling chances for YSR Congress party to come to power if mid-term elections are held to Andhra Pradesh assembly now did not come as a surprise at all.
During the monsoon session of the Andhra Pradesh assembly held in July in Hyderabad, Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu declared that it was the last session being held in the joint capital and that the forthcoming winter session would be held in Amaravati, the new capital of AP.
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah, who completed his five-year term as Governor of Tamil Nadu, had a “home coming” on Saturday.
The demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi government has taken as many as 80 lives of the people who collapsed while standing in queues before banks. The Centre did not bother to react to these unfortunate incidents.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy might be a bit slow in reacting on crucial issues like currency crisis, but he is very quick in conveying messages, particularly condolence messages as well as congratulatory messages.
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.”
