On Thursday evening, there was a sense of unease within the top echelons of the Andhra Pradesh establishment. The reason was that the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High court had taken up the case of Dr Sudhakar suo moto and his decision was due on Friday. Dr Sudhakar, an anaesthetist who worked at … Continue reading Dr Sudhakar case leaves Andhra Pradesh police red-faced. The story so far
For several months now, one has been hearing about allegations of insider trading in the Amaravati capital region. Jaganmohan Reddy harped upon it during the election campaign in Andhra Pradesh and ever since he came to power in May 2019, his cabinet colleagues have been alluding to top Telugu Desam leaders having hit the pot … Continue reading Naidu decisions, including on Amaravati, now under SIT scanner
YS Jaganmohan Reddy will have reason to be upset. Because despite having a brute majority of 151 out of 175 in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the Legislative Council where the opposition Telugu Desam has the majority, managed to stop his plan to shift the administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam. The Chairman of the … Continue reading Stumped in Legislative Council, Andhra Capital shift to Vizag will not happen soon
With two weeks of their agitation yielding little except photo-ops for Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan, the farmers of Amaravati have decided to intensify their protest at the Andhra Pradesh government's proposed decision to move the administrative capital to Visakhapatnam. They have decided to launch a Sakula Janula Samme (All People's Strike) to bring Amaravati … Continue reading Jagan’s three-pronged strategy to deal with Amaravati protests
It is a given that when leaders quit a party, they do their new political home a favour by publicly attacking their former bosses. That is the standard template being followed by Gannavaram MLA Vamsi Vallabhneni who articulated his disappointment with politics, even saying he wanted to quit the field altogether. This week, he started off … Continue reading Vamsi succeeds in his mission, gets suspended from TDP
On Thursday, Chandrababu Naidu will sit on a 12-hour-long deeksha in Vijayawada to protest against the sand shortage in Andhra Pradesh. Why this is important is because the issue pertains not just to the construction industry, it also has implications for the construction of the opposition space in the state. And to reconstruct the structure … Continue reading Chandrababu Naidu’s Deeksha on sand shortage is also to reconstruct TDP
After a lull, the BJP is back to eyeing the Telugu Desam. Party MLC Somu Veerraju today taunted Chandrababu Naidu, telling the former chief minister not to worry too much about his 23 MLAs. ``A lot of sitting MLAs as well as ex-MLAs are trying to join the BJP since the party is growing from … Continue reading We will empty your TDP house soon, BJP leader warns Chandrababu Naidu
If you needed to know if Amaravati is happening or not, you could not have got a louder hint than this. Through an order dated 11 November, the Andhra Pradesh government has closed the Amaravati Capital City Start-Up Area project. This was to be developed by the Singapore Consortium which comprised Ascendas Singbridge Pte Ltd … Continue reading Has the Amaravati capital project been abandoned by the Jagan regime?
Friday will be an important day for Jaganmohan Reddy. And depending on which way the decision of the CBI court goes, it will turn out to be an important day for Andhra Pradesh as well. And if the verdict of the court goes against the chief minister, it could well press the reset button on … Continue reading Will CBI court ask for Jagan’s personal appearance on court?
Jagan govt takes back land allotted to Andhra Jyothi media group in Vizag. The decision is seen as another episode in the bitter relatons between YSRCP and the media house.
On Tuesday, YS Jaganmohan Reddy will launch the Rythu Bharosa scheme in Nellore district. The Andhra Pradesh CM added a sweetener at the last minute by hiking the annual benefit to farmers from the proposed Rs 12000 to Rs 13500 and announcing that the scheme will be implemented for five years and not four years … Continue reading Jagan’s farmer outreach has political messaging for Modi, Naidu, KCR
Chandrababu Naidu through April 2019 on the election campaign trail : ``Narendra Modi is Publicity PM, not Performing PM. All leaders are better than Modi. KCR, Jagan and Modi are all together against me. Modi is a hardcore extremist. He is not a good man.'' Chandrababu Naidu in October 2019 in Visakhapatnam : ``I have … Continue reading Chandrababu Naidu changes his tune on Narendra Modi, yet again
The photoshop industry continues to play its ugly role in the war over social media between the Telugu Desam and the YSR Congress. After Chandrababu Naidu complained about abusive posts in social media against him, now the YSRCP has complained about the TDP offensive on its social media platforms. The ruling party in Andhra Pradesh … Continue reading Social media rivalry between TDP and YSRCP goes from bad to worse
Three senior TRS leaders - Kesava Rao, B Vinod Kumar and Nama Nageswara Rao - trooped into the CPI office on a cloudy Sunday afternoon to seek its support for its candidate in the Huzurnagar byelection. If the move raised eyebrows, it was not surprising because the TRS had crushed the opposition in December 2018, … Continue reading Decoding TRS move to seek CPI support for Huzurnagar byelection
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