Team Anna, which has launched a crusade against corruption across the country stayed away from AP byelections despite the fact that YS Jaganmohan Reddy, chief of the YSR Congress, is behind the bars for allegedly amassing wealth through illegal investments.
Congress MLA Veera Siva Reddy says that government will order a probe into YSR death if his family members provide any evidence in support of their conspiracy theory regarding his death.
Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi has indicated that by-elections across the country, including for seats in Andhra Pradesh, could likely be held in June, well before the Presidential election.
The Jaganmohan Reddy case becomes a cause of embarrassment for the Congress as the name of late Chief Minister YSR Reddy is featured in the chargesheet filed by the CBI.
Calling his win in the Nagar Kurnool seat a victory for Telangana, independent candidate Nagam Janardhan Reddy took a dig at his former party boss Chandrababu Naidu
Results for all seven Assembly seats: TRS has won 4, YSR Congress has bagged the Kovur seat, BJP has a surprise win in Mahabubnagar and TDP draws a blank.
Jupally Krishna Rao, who joined TRS after resigning from Congress over the issue of Telangana, has won the Kollapur Assembly seat in Mahabubnagar district.
Congress candidates in Assembly by-elections, the counting for which began this morning, are trailing in six constituencies in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.
Work in the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat came to a near standstill as the state legislators and ministers are busy campaigning for the upcoming by-polls.
Congress leader Chiranjeevi and YSR Congress leader Roja who once shared space on the silver screen are now taking digs at each other during the Kovur election campaign.