The first phase of polling has almost sealed the fate of the leaders and the most shocking news likely to be the possible defeat of TRS chief, K Chandrasekhar Rao, at Mahaboobnagar. According to the initial reports, KCR is trailing behind his Congress rival, Vithal Rao. It is said that the locals have turned against [...]
The Prajarajyam (PRP) will concentrate on enrolling college students as voters. The PRP leader, Mr B. Ra-vindra Kumar, told newsmen here on Monday that nearly 34 lakh students did not have the right to vote in the state. In East Godavari alone the number was nearly three lakh, he added. In an attempt to help [...]
The Election Commission Thursday ordered repolling in 17 voting centres in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahbubnagar district following incidents of violence. Villagers in Aiza area, who were protesting their inclusion in Alampur assembly constituency in the delimitation process, attacked polling stations and destroyed electronic voting machines (EVM). They also attacked a police station and the house of [...]
A former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office-bearer Thursday created a sensation by throwing a wooden slipper at senior party leader L.K. Advani when Advani was going up on stage to address a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh. The man, identified as Pawas Agarwal, threw a ‘khadaun’ or slipper made of wood at Advani, saying he [...]
Praja Rajyam (PR) chief K. Chiranjeevi on Wednesday asserted that his party was the only alternative before people who were vexed with the Congress and the TDP. “Though both parties are equally corrupt, people are forced to elect one or the other for want of an alternative. Now, they have a better party to elect,” [...]
The Telugu Desam Party is not leaving any chance to grab victory in the elections and in the process, make some quick money. The party leadership has sent CDs containing speeches of TD’s star campaigner Jr NTR to all parts of the state, so that the local level leaders would either telecast or screen them [...]
The authorities have made all poll-related as well as security arrangements for the first phase of the poll in 154 assembly and 22 parliamentary constituencies in the Telangana region and north coastal Andhra Pradesh. As many as 31.1 million voters in these constituencies spread over 13 districts will decide the electoral fortunes of 315 candidates [...]
Police have seized over 200 million rupees unaccounted money in Andhra Pradesh in a drive against splurge of black money and free liquor by politicians and their cohorts in the run up to general polls. “Similarly, more than 20 crores of rupees are under verification which have been seized during the course of checking. The [...]
“Telangana is part our agenda and we will continue to check all efforts turn fruitful to get the separate state for the region” says AICC president Sonia Gandhi in her Karimnagar campaign meeting on Tuesday. The much debated T-issue which didn’t even find place in the State Congress Manifesto, was again seen in the speech [...]
Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi is all set to join hands with Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh and Ram Vilas Paswan to to consolidate the “fourth front” at the national level. SP general secretary Amar Singh, along with his colleague Sanjay Dutt, met Chiranjeevi over dinner on Monday and discussed the prospects of PRP joining [...]
