Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is understood to have asked a hefty financial package of a whopping Rs 3 lakh crore for the development of Andhra Pradesh, if it is not possible to give special status to the State.
Taking a jibe at Opposition criticism on yet to be disclosed new Excise policy for 2015-16, Excise Minister T Padma Rao Goud on Saturday said the TRS government was committed to protect the lives of people in villages falling a prey to illicit liquor.
Senior Congress leader and former minister D K Aruna on Monday alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who had proclaimed that he would transform Hyderabad into a Health Hub, changed it into an ‘Anarogya Hub’.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu are enacting a big drama on special category status and release of Central funds to the State.
Even the finest psychologist in the country cannot possibly understand Pawan Kalyan judging by the latter’s recent statements.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has come out with a master stroke when he announced that he would visit Pawan Kalyan and explain the situation to him personally over the land acquisition issue.
When in opposition, Ponnuru MLA of Guntur district, Dhulipalla Narendra of the TDP was vociferous in his criticism of the Congress. But strangely, he has gone completely silent after the TDP came to power.
Today Pawan Kalyan will be touring the villages around Amaravathi, the proposed capital of Andhra Pradesh. But that is no good news for TDP leaders.
Central Minister Venkayya Naidu is angry with the fact that the BJP leaders in Andhra Pradesh are not coming to his defense.
The weekend crowds in the Nehru zoological Park here had a harrowing experience after a tiger jumped off its enclosure to freedom, in the zoo premises though, on Saturday.
In a completely new twist to the Pawan Kalyan-TDP face-off regarding land acquisition, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu has issued directives to his ministers and MLAs not to criticise Pawan Kalyan.
Of late, Pawan Kalyan has been requesting the government not to invoke the Land Acquisition Act, but the TDP has gone ahead.
There are conflicting stories about Pawan Kalyan's tour in Andhra Pradesh. According to some political sources, Pawan will be touring the villages of Undavalli, Bethapudi and Penumaka this time and meet up with the protesting farmers there.
It could be a well-planned strategy of Telugu Desam leaders to divert attention or it could be their genuine, heart-felt opinion, but almost all of them seem to look at Pawan as an unlikely force that is meddling with the ruling party's agenda.
Thousands of farmers from villages across the capital region of Andhra Pradesh today staged a protest here against the proposed acquisition of their land for the construction of the state capital.
