Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday witnessed a heated debate on an interesting issue: who is afraid of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao?
Prior to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announcing the nominee to the post of PAC Chairman, Jyothula Nehru was believed to have communicated to Jagan that he expected to be nominated to the prestigious post without fail.
Referring to the state of affairs in Uttarakhand, Lok Satta Party founder Jayaprakash Narayan said that it is time that people elected their Chief Ministers directly rather than through the legislature party.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi leadership is learnt to have stepped up its behind-the-curtain attempts to join the National Democratic Alliance government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The TRS in Telangana and TDP in Andhra Pradesh have no issues in admitting as many opposition members to their party fold as the assembly seats are bound to increase after further delimitation.
Following criticism from various quarters, including from his own Telugu Desam Party, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is understood to be considering changing the design of the proposed Assembly building complex in the new capital city of Amaravati.
The Agri Gold scam has been rocking the Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for nearly one year and the depositors have been crying foul over the way the company management duped them of more than Rs 7,000 crore which it had collected in the form of deposits.
In ‘Open Heart with RK’, Jayaprakash Narayan was told by RK, “Many people feel that you should be a part of the TDP. Why do you not join the TDP?”
There seems to be something wrong with YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in handling senior leaders, which is evident from the way they are deserting the party one after the other.
While CBN is implementing all of KCR’s tricks in AP, there is one aspect in which KCR is following his ‘guru’. And that is in the art of media management.
Last week on the occasion of his birthday, Deputy Leader of Congress in Legislative Council, P Sudhakar Reddy decided to donate his salary for the month to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
For the simple reason that the YSR family is worshipped in Kadapa, CBN seems to have completely sidelined the district from his vision of development.
The designs finalised by the Andhra Pradesh government for the two iconic buildings – State Assembly and High Court – in the new capital city of Amaravati – has disappointed not only intellectuals, but also common people, a lot.
For Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the birthday celebrations of his grandson seem to be the top priority rather than launching a populist government programme.
Referring to the alleged misbehavior of cops with the protesting girl students at UoH, MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi accused the Central government of trying to impose the Sangh Parivar ideology on the nation.
