TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s sudden decision to leave for New Delhi on Thursday evening along with his family led to speculations in political circles that he was up to some game plan to contain the growing rebellion within the party. Rao, it may be mentioned, is known for creating political drama whenever he smells [...]
The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has set his eyes on two crucial portfolios: Petroleum and natural gas and water resources. As Dr Reddy sees it, the state has contributed the largest nu-mber of MPs to the Congress and should be rewarded. Dr Reddy wants MPs from the state to handle the two portfolios. [...]
Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi is trying to keep as cooler as possible and is trying to infuse a sort of enthusiasm in the cadres, which are thoroughly disappointed with the party’s performance in the elections. Chiranjeevi is telling the party leaders and cadres who are coming to meet him to take the people’s verdict [...]
Sources say that from the last few weeks the candidates those have bought tickets from Allu Aravind got doubts and are running behind him to pay back as they would like to withdraw. Even after the election they have forced Aravind to give back at least some percentage of their money as they are not [...]
Prajarajyam president K Chiranjeevi on Sunday came under a scathing attack from his former aide Parakala Prabhakar, with the latter accusing him of forcing candidates to part with their movable and immovable assets in return for a ticket of the party. Addressing a crowded media conference, Parakala, who quit PRP a month ago accusing it [...]
Major irrigation minister P Lakshmaiah, who won with a wafer-thin margin of 44 votes may lose his cabinet post, sources said. Lakshmaiah may be considered for the post of the PCC chief. The possibility of making him the Assembly Speaker also cannot be discounted. YSR will also have to search for a suitable Muslim candidate [...]
It is now clear that Kapus of the region have indeed backed Chiranjeevi’s Prajarajyam Party so blindly but that did not ensure the party to come out with flying colours at the hustings. The PRP candidates though lost the elections have polled between 15-50 thousand votes. The only factor that seemed to have gone against [...]
Chiranjeevi having suffering humiliated defeat stated to have revealed his thoughts over the defeat. While he thanked one and all for voting to his party and him, he also said that this is simply the beginning and there is a long way to go. However, Chiru highlighted that there was a lot of influence of [...]
It was rather embarrassing and shocking news when reports came in from Chiranjeevi’s supposedly strongest areas – East and West Godavari districts. It is heard that the locals there broke into immediate celebrations on late Saturday evening until early Sunday. Folks there were said to be rejoicing over the news of the megastar’s humiliating defeat. [...]
It is a great victory for Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy who fought against all odds — there were no star campaigners for the party, a united opposition, a sort of non-cooperation from within the party and entry of a new political party, Praja Rajyam, which has a backing of a strong community [...]
