While leaders of both the parties have consistently condemned such reports and said they did not need each other's support, reports keep emerging about their upcoming alliance.
Amidst all the pandemonium in New Delhi over the Telangana Bill, one man who seems to be taking his time and keeping his cards close to his chest is TRS head KCR.
There is a strong speculation making rounds from the last few months that CM Kiran Kumar Reddy is all set to float a new political party keeping the Seemandhra vote bank in mind.
The President has given his nod to the much-talked about Telangana Bill, but suspense still prevails over the timing of its introduction in Lok Sabha.
As the drama at the Centre inches towards a conclusion, the politics of opportunism is evident in full swing in Andhra Pradesh.
Telugu Desam Party senior leader Pavvavula Keshav on Tuesday strongly criticized the luncheon politics of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has invited BJP top brass for a luncheon meeting on Wednesday to consider ways to resolve the deadlock in parliament on the Telangana bill.
The Congress high command, which has expelled six of its party MPs in one stroke for opposing the State bifurcation process, is silent on taking any action against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who too has been defying the party strongly in the same issue.
With Mamata Banerjee along with Omar Abdullah of Kashmir openly stating that they would oppose the T-Bill in Parliament, the focus has once again shifted to the BJP.
With the Telangana Bill coming up during the last Parliament session before the general elections, restrictions have been imposed to stop Telugu people from entering the Parliament premises.
The time for CM Kiran Kumar Reddy resigning from his post is fast approaching, as per media reports. Now, the story doing rounds in political circles is that many senior Congress leader are lobbying for the CM’s post for the three months remaining in the run up to the general elections.
