Congress party is fielding rank newcomers and political novices in eight out of the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana. This situation has been forced by the refusal of senior party leaders to enter the fray despite appeals by Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. Party leaders acknowledge the fact that many seniors flatly refused [...]
Arrangements have been made for filing of nominations by candidates on Monday when the Election Commission will formally issue the notification for holding elections in 22 Lok Sabha and 154 Assembly constituencies in North Coastal Andhra and Telangana regions. These constituencies will go to the polls in the first phase on April 16. The EC [...]
You may not have heard of Rammanohar Lohia, whose birth centenary year begins on this very day, and his brand of indigenous socialism. But the quotation reminds us of the importance of democratic accountability in between elections. It also invites us to go beyond the usual questions such as “Kaun banega pradhan mantri?” to ask [...]
The election process has been set in motion. With the issuance of poll notification on Monday, tension has started mounting up in all political parties. Compared to all the other parties, the Congress is sitting pretty by announcing the list of candidates well in advance and Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is oozing [...]
The Telugu Desam and the Praja Rajyam Party are ahead of the Congress in electioneering. The PRP president, Chiranjeevi is on continuous tour of the State covering district after district, since he launched his party at Tirupathi. His brother, Pawan Kalyan, too has been touring the districts on his own. The TD had deployed Nandamuri [...]
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and AP Congress Committee president D. Srinivas returned to the State capital after a week-long painstaking candidate selection exercise in New Delhi . Before returning to Hyderabad, two senior Congress leaders called on AICC president Sonia Gandhi. The shortlisted names of candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies have [...]
Call it the new trend in politics or the need of the hour to grab the power but then the road shows have been happening in great numbers for the masses and this has become a ritual of sort for all the political parties to come up with their own set of road shows and [...]
Badaru Dattatreya of BJP made a statement that Chiru is getting good response from the public than Nandamuri heroes (Balakrishna and NTR.Jr). Dattanna further added that ‘Chandrababu is not getting good response from the public, so he solely depended on the cine glamour of Nandamuri family’.Dattatreya stated that though film personalities go for canvassing and [...]
Praja Rajyam Party Chief Megastar Chiru who is planning to contest Tirupathi assembly constituency has purchased a bungalow in Tirupathi by spending Rs1.30 Crs The Bungalow is located in Khadi Colony, beside the lane of Jaganmatha Church. Allu Arvind and Sureka Chiranjeevi are likely to come down to Tirupathi to perform the Pooja in the [...]
Humayun is a not so renowned name in the state but he was given Jubilee Hills Assembly ticket from PRP. Then why he is given the ticket and who is he? He is a small businessman who supplies sound systems for party meetings and also for film shootings. He is better known with the sound [...]
