Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials, who took custody of Raj Kesireddy, former IT advisor to the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government and the prime accused in the alleged liquor scam, grilled him for seven hours to elicit information with regard to money laundering in the case.
The internal wrangling within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) seems to have reached a flash point following the breakdown of talks between Kalvakuntla Kavitha and the emissaries of her father and party president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday.
Konathala Ramakrishna has long been a prominent political figure from the united Visakhapatnam district.
The YSR Congress Party has strongly objected to the Andhra Pradesh government’s sudden withdrawal of its COVID-19 advisory, calling it a politically motivated move to facilitate the Telugu Desam Party’s grand Mahanadu event.
Andhra Pradesh politics is abuzz over the ongoing liquor scam investigation.
The growing perception that Andhra Pradesh Labour Minister Vasamsetti Subhash holds little actual power — while his father, Vasamsetti Satyam, wields full control over constituency affairs — is causing significant discontent among Telugu Desam Party (TDP) cadres in Ramachandrapuram, Konaseema district.
Ever since former Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy resigned from the YSR Congress Party and relinquished his parliamentary seat, party president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has completely severed ties with him.
A series of arrests involving high-profile individuals in connection with the alleged liquor scam during the previous YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government in Andhra Pradesh has sent shockwaves through the party and dealt a major blow to party president and former Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
An uneasy atmosphere is prevailing in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) following the summons issued by Justice P C Ghose commission to party president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his nephew T Harish Rao over the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project, asking them to appear for questioning in the first week of June.
Speculations are rife that the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is preparing the ground for the arret of YSR Congress party president and former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the alleged liquor scam of his regime.
For quite some time, there have been reports that Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is giving a lot of importance to the bureaucrats at the cost of the party MLAs and ministers.
If the reports coming from New Delhi are to be believed, yet another Rajya Sabha member is likely to call it quits to the YSR Congress party shortly.
Hyderabad is once again bustling with political activity — though not its own.
The ruling Telugu Desam Party is gearing up for the three-day Mahanadu, the party’s biennial conclave, to be held at Kadapa from May 27 to 29 and preparations are in full swing for the grand political event.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu who has been dodging the implementation of Annadata Sukhibhava scheme for farmers on the pretext of lack of funds, is getting ready to cheat them once again.
