The Congress leadership is crying foul over defection of several leaders into other parties apparently realizing the Congress has no scope of returning to power either in State or in the Centre.
With the Election Commission announcing the schedule for general elections for Lok Sabha and the State Assembly, there is little scope for new political parties to enter the poll fray at this stage.
The election schedule has been issued and political leaders from various parties are busy planning ahead.
Now that bifurcation has become a reality, everyone is eagerly waiting to see if KCR would merge TRS with the Congress party.
Some Telangana Congress leaders still seem to have hopes on forging an alliance with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, if not a merger, though TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao has ruled out both.
If the bifurcation episode of Andhra Pradesh can be compared with Ramayana, who is Rama and who is Ravana?
With the Telangana Rashtra Samithi ditching the Congress outright, the Congress high command has decided to intensify its campaign to get the maximum mileage in the region.
Union minister Jairam Ramesh here on Tuesday announced that the Centre would soon constitute an experts' committee to identify the area for locating capital for the residual Andhra Pradesh State.
The 29th State of Telangana will officially come into existence on June 2. An announcement to this effect was made by the Centre on Tuesday evening.
Senior Congress legislator P Shankar Rao on Tuesday torn off a flexi wall poster comprising former Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at Congress Legislature Party office here. The flexi was torn off to some extent during a press conference.
Why was Sonia Gandhi so eager to grant statehood to Telangana region, despite knowing that it would be wiped out in Seemandhra region?
All the media attention and Pawan Kalyan’s short, but intriguing press release are reminiscent of scenes straight out of a Ram Gopal Varma film.
Ideally, the police department is meant to be that wing which must command respect and trust from the common man. But in India, people are more scared of the police than criminals.
From the time the news about Pawan Kalyan’s political entry begun to make rounds, different analysis have begun. The main question is, can Pawan Kalyan fit into politics.
With Governor E S L Narasimhan taking over the reins of the state under President’s Rule, there has been pressure on him to review files cleared by former Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in the last few months.
