Nava Telangana Praja Party president T Devender Goud demanded that an all-party meeting should be held on the construction of Polavaram project. He said it was detrimental to the interests of Telangana. ‘‘Injustice is being meted out to Telangana which should get some share of river Godavari,’’ he said.
The NTPP leader’s Atma Gourava Yatra [...]
By donning the new role as politician, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi may have created ripples in the political circles but has suffered a blow on his home turf with the defeat of his panel in the elections to the Movie Artistes Association (MAA).
The elections to the representative body of the Telugu film industry, conducted biennially, are [...]
Union minister of State for human resource development and N.T. Rama Rao’s daughter D. Purandareswari appealed to her brothers Harikrishna and Balakrishna to reconsider their decision in extending support to the Telugu Desam Party in the ensuing polls.
Speaking to newsmen at Vatlur village of West Godavari district on Tuesday, she was critical of TDP [...]
The advent of Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam (People’s Rule) party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has reignited an old trend of Tollywood stars cashing in on personas to catapult themselves to power, with the 53-year-old actor only the latest in a long string of matinee idols to make a foray into politics.
Chiranjeevi’s glittering entrance [...]
AS one drives through the serpentine Road No 46 in the upmarket Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad, a swanky corporate structure standing at the top of the street brings one to a natural halt, surrounded as it is by an eager but patient crowd waiting for “the star” to smile upon them.
The scene instantly reminds one [...]
Left parties, along with the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal (S), have decided to observe 25 September, the day the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is visiting Washington to formalise the Indo-US nuclear deal, as a protest day.
A joint call given by the CPI-M, CPI, Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party, along with the [...]
The Congress party continued hitting out at the Opposition parties for the second day on Tuesday in the State capital on the issue of the noconfidence motion against Assembly Speaker K R Suresh Reddy.
APCC president D Srinivas alleged that never in the history of the State politics had any party politicised the Speaker’s office.
Terming the [...]
It was on expected lines. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, who is considered a strong votary of a united Andhra Pradesh, stood up in the State Legislative Assembly in support of the separatist Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
The TDP, the main Opposition party, got the required support from the TRS, the BSP and [...]
Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which has almost decided its stand in favour of Telangana, today officially celebrated the liberation of Hyderabad State from the tyranny of Nizam.
Though this was the third successive year that the party celebrated the Liberation Day, for the first time TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu hoisted the national flag at the [...]
In the wake of the advent of Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam, and given the likelihood of a tie-up between the Telugu Desam and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh has its work cut out in the 2009 elections According to a latest survey, the party is facing a serious dent in [...]
The search is on for ‘winning horses’ in Telugu Desam Party (TDP). TDP which is leaving no stone unturned to regain power in the State, has started the exercise of identifying ‘potential’ candidates for the next Assembly elections.
TDP leadership is planning to announce the names of candidates four to five months ahead of the elections [...]
THE SITUATION of political parties in Andhra Pradesh at present is such that each one of these is fighting only for power, be it a new political party or old one. The major change in the functioning of politics in the state, came in 1983, when NT Ramarao (NTR) found his Telugu Desam Party. Now [...]
he Opposition parties have vowed to continue their stir against the Government for its “excesses” in the Assembly on Monday.
Staging a dharna at the Ambedkar statue here today, the main Opposition party in the Assembly, the Telugu Desam, along with the CPM, TRS and CPI, decried the Government’s “attitude in the House”.
Speaking at the dharna, [...]
Adding to the long list of serving and retired babus and cops, more than a dozen scribes have joined the queue of wannabe politicians. At last count, at least 15 members of the fourth estate were seen keenly lobbying for a ticket in the next elections from various political parties. All of them are banking [...]
Close relatives of two prominent Telugu Desam Party leaders joined Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam in the presence of mega star here on Tuesday. They are Warangal MP Errabelli Dayakar Rao’s brother E Pradeep Rao and TDP’s deputy leader in the Assembly Yanamala Ramakrishnudu’s brother Y Venkat Rao. Several other leaders from Warangal and East Godavari [...]
In anticipation of early elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assembly, Telugu Desam Party is bracing itself for the big event. Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday urged the partymen to be prepared for elections which might be held in four to five months time.
Addressing an orientation session for the party [...]
Gearing up for the elections, the Telugu Desam Party is deploying its senior leaders to all Parliamentary constituencies in Andhra Pradesh to study the prevailing political scenario.
The party has appointed an in-charge for two Lok Sabha segments to carry out the exercise and submit a report to the party politburo by the end of this [...]
TRS president K Chadnrasekhar Rao expressed his willingness to work together with Nava Telangana Praja Party chief T Devender Goud. Speaking to newsmen here on Sunday, he said that he has begun making efforts to unite all the forces of Telangana.
He said he had held discussions with Talli Telangana Party founder president and acress Vijayasanti. [...]
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday said his party, if voted to power, would review all the key decisions taken by the YS Rajasekhara Reddy Government, including irrigation contracts. Speaking to reporters here, Naidu said the party would “educate people about” the corrupt practices of the Rajasekhara Reddy Government. He alleged [...]
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu announced that his party, if voted to power, would review all the key decisions taken by the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy Government, including irrigation contracts.
Speaking to newsmen here on Sunday, he alleged that the Government had recently invited tenders for Rs 5,400 crore for a single work package, [...]
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minsiter Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ridiculing the no-trust motion tabled by the opposition parties TDP and TRS and said by doing so they cored a self goal.
Speaking to reporters, he said it was unfortunate that the two parties tried to target the Speakre after failing on all fronts. Stating that the two [...]
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi Legislature Party (TRSLP) on Saturday issued a whip directing all 17 MLAs, including the 10 party dissidents , to attend the special assembly session, being convened to discuss and take up the no confidence motion against Speaker KR Suresh Reddy on September 15.
The opposition TDP and TRS submitted letters to Assembly [...]
Praja Rajyam, in its first-ever direct attack on the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekahra Reddy, took severe exception to the later’s criticism at Sonia Gandhi’s meeting in Anantapur stating that ‘public service is not like acting in cinema’.
Praja Rajyam spokesperson Parakala Prabhakar told newsmen here on Friday that it was better for people [...]
Nava Telangana Praja Party (NTPP) president T. Devender Goud on Monday accused Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu of resorting to manipulations to stay in power and to get back to power respectively.
During his `atma gourava yatra’ now passing through Adilabad district, he told newsmen at Nirmal that his party [...]
Even as the Telangana issue continues to simmer, suspected Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) activists beat up a dozen people who had come for an interview at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd’s Ramachandrapuram unit on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Medak district SP V C Sajjanar said that six persons were arrested in connection with the attack. They were later remanded in judicial custody.
TRS has been crying shrill about ‘outsiders’ taking jobs that were meant for locals and therefore, demanding the creation of a Telangana state to undo this injustice.
Sajjanar said trouble started after BHEL put out the list of candidates for the interview.
Locals and some BHEL employees went on a protest, saying the list was full of outsiders. Soon members of the local unit of Telangana Joint Action Committee joined the protest.
With the situation threatening to get out of control, the BHEL management cancelled the interviews and asked applicants to return to their homes. This, however, did not assuage the anger of the activists, who beat up few of the applicants, which included persons from Kerala,
Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
“They threatened to kill me if I came back for interview at a later date. I will not come back and look for jobs elsewhere,” said Ramana Murthy, an applicant from coastal Andhra.
Applicants from Tamil Nadu lodged a complaint with the Chennai police on their return.
