It has been just over two months since Mangalagiri MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy had quit the YSR Congress party and his assembly membership, in protest against the alleged humiliation meted out to him in the party.
As the Lok Sabha general elections are fast approaching, there has been a talk in the political circles in Telangana that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is interested in having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
As YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is undertaking a marathon exercise on selection of party candidates for the upcoming elections based on various survey reports, speculations are flying high on social media about the candidates to be finalised for the contest.
The selection of candidates in the ruling YSR Congress party for the upcoming elections in Andhra Pradesh continues to spring surprises on the party candidates and also cadre, as party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is experimenting with the list, going by caste considerations.
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It is more or less certain that YSR Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member from Nellore Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy is going to quit the party and join the Telugu Desam Party sooner or later.
As Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila is all set to perform the grand wedding of her son, Y S Raja Reddy with Atluri Priya on Saturday, her brother, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and his wife Bharati Reddy are most likely to be conspicuous by their absence.
It has been more than a week since Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu rushed to Delhi and held discussions with Bharatiya Janata Party top leaders – including Union home minister Amit Shah and party national president J P Nadda.
YCP Rajya Sabha member Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy is reportedly almost certain to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s strategy of fielding OBCs and minorities in key assembly and parliamentary constituencies seems to have upset prominent Reddys leaders of the party, at least in Ongole and Prakasam districts.
It hasn't been a month since Y S Sharmila took over as the president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee. In this short time, she has certainly injected some momentum into the party, which had previously been on the verge of collapse.
There is talk that former Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju is considering quitting politics.
Ever since Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu returned from his New Delhi tour after meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah last week, there have been speculations that the Bharatiya Janata Party is demanding more MP and MLA tickets in the Andhra Pradesh elections if Naidu wants the party to join the TDP-Jana Sena Party alliance.
When YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was in New Delhi on Friday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman, the media attention was mostly on who had accompanied him during the tour.
As the elections draw near, attempts are being made to attack the incumbent YCP in an innovative way.
