
There have been reports in a section of social media in Hyderabad that All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi would be meeting YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday.

Chief Minister YS Jagan is currently engaged in extensive surveys to determine candidate selections for upcoming elections.

Even as the opposition Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are still struggling to establish themselves and kick up the anti-establishment sentiment among the people in Telangnana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is getting ready to enter the battle field.

There are certain assembly constituencies in Telangana, where the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi is really invincible – like Gajwel represented by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Siricilla by his son K T Rama Rao and Siddipet, represented by his nephew T Harish Rao.

Former MLA from Vijayawada (north) and prominent Kapu leader Vangaveeti Radha Krishna has called for a meeting of his followers and well-wishers on Friday to discuss his future plans, as Andhra Pradesh is heading for assembly elections in another eight months.

As the elections to the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh state assemblies are just a few months away, political parties in both the states have begun the exercise in selecting candidates for contest.

YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is said to be under tremendous pressure from his own party MLAs to revert to the old system of liquor policy in the state, ahead of the assembly elections.

If the reports from the power corridors of Tadepalli are to be believed, at least half a dozen ministers in the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy cabinet might not be given the party tickets to contest the next assembly elections, scheduled to be held early next year.

The padayatra, which began in Chittoor district, extended over several days, covering the districts of Chittoor, Anantapur, Kadapa, Kurnool, and finally, the coastal districts.

The surprising presence of former IAS officer and Lok Satta chief Dr Jayaprakash Narayan on the dais along with YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at the APCOB diamond jubilee celebrations in Vijayawada on Friday raised many eyebrows.

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is the senior most politician in Andhra Pradesh, at least among those who are active now.

The Telangana government, headed by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, is on an auction spree to sell off government lands in the outskirts of Hyderabad city, which command a huge real estate value.

Generally, people think that leaders of rival political parties are bitter enemies and they do not see eye to eye.

As the Telangana Assembly polls approach, BRS President and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has decided to go to any extent to secure a hat-trick victory for BRS in the December Assembly polls this year.

If the reports doing rounds in a section of media are correct, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which manages the affairs of Lord Venkateshwara temple on Tirumala, has chosen Gujarat-based dairy giant Amul for supply of ghee to make the famed Tirumala laddu prasadam.