News about changes in the State Congress Party are rampant again after Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and APCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana were summoned to New Delhi again by the Congress High Command. Many leaders in the party believe Satyanarayana would soon...
Nine Congress MLAs who defied the party whip during the no-confidence motion, when their votes could have proved crucial for the party, are not being shown the door. The signal from the High Command to act tough has emboldened the state Congress leaders to act...
Congress MLAs from Andhra Pradesh along with Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and APCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana head to Delhi to convince the Congress high command to elect them for the nine corporation or MLC seats available in the state. Reports say that ab...
Congress leaders from Kadapa today held a press conference in Hyderabad to level allegations against Cabinet minister DL Ravindra Reddy of helping YSR Congress in Kadapa. Varadarajula Reddy and Veera Siva Reddy said DL should be dismissed from the Cabinet and ...
Cabinet minister DL Ravindra Reddy had a secret meeting with YSR Congress leaders days before the DCCB elections, during which they hatched a plan to defeat the official Congress candidate in the elections and ensure that YSRCP's candidate won. These are alleg...
Chandrababu Naidu scorched a dangerous path today. During his padyatra in Guntur, he asked farmers to grab anything they can lay their hand on and 'kill the Congress'. Naidu was vexed at the issues and problems being faced by farmers. Expectedly the Congress b...
Come out on to the streets and 'kill the Congress' -- That was TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu's statement at a meeting during his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra in Guntur district. This strong statement from Babu led to Congress saying the TDP chief has lost his m...
The twin blasts in Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar last night are not direct case of failure of the police, says PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana. He also said it is not always possible to protect everyone all the time.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana has met top Congress leaders during his visit to Delhi for consultations over the issue of Telanagana. The Congress high command has also invited Chiranjeevi and other leaders from the state for discussions. Botsa will be back in...
The Congress government, which seems to be keen on resolving the Telangana crisis, has invited PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana and AP Governor Narasimhan to Delhi to talk about the issue and also find out about other issues plaguing Andhra Pradesh.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana says he never mentioned that those MLAs seeking to leave the Congress party would be boycotted. He was clarifying his remark made earlier about MLAs who were indulging in anti-party activities and who had been letting out that the...
TRS chief KCR's speech at Indira Park where he attacked the Nehru-Gandhi family and called PM Manmohan Singh no better than a 'chaprasi' has riled Congress leaders. Leading the attack are PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and MP Vundavalli Aruna Kumar.
PCC chief Satyanarayana hit out at the Opposition party for their agitation on the issue of hike in power tariff. Botsa said the power tariff has not been hiked in the the last five years and considering that costs of all things have also increased, can't ever...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has a clean image so far. But Chandrababu Naidu has dropped a bomb. He has levelled charges of corruption against the CM saying that the CM earned Rs 400 crore in a coal import scam. Naidu says APGENCO imported coal from Indone...
Congress leader in Andhra Pradesh Botsa Satyanarayana sparks a huge outrage by commenting that women should not roam around during the night just because India got freedom at midnight. The comments have angered several protesters and put the government in a fi...
The TDP has reacted strongly to the off-the-cuff remark made by PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana on the need for the victim of the Delhi gangrape case to have restricted her visits outside home during the night. Botsa had said that India had got freedom at midnig...
'We got freedom at midnight, should that mean freedom to roam at midnight?', asks PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana. He was speaking on the Delhi bus gangrape incident, where the girl who had hopped onto a bus with her friend late night, and was raped by the drive...
Here is a list of top controversies that shadowed the Telugu film industry over the last 11 months of 2012. These include arrest of a Telugu actor on drug-related charges, Dasari Narayan Rao's tirade against greenhorn heroes, Pawan Kalyan's absence at 'Racha' ...
Who should claim credit for the 'pathakams' or welfare programmes in which crores of money is being spent by the Andhra Pradesh state government? YSR? His son Jagan Mohan Reddy? CM Kiran Kumar Reddy? The Congress party? It is the Congress programme and not tha...
The Andhra Pradesh Congress held its 'megha madanam sadassu' at the LB Stadium in Hyderabad. The event was unique for several reasons, besides of course the average party workers and Congress leaders getting their voice heard at the state level. There was no s...
Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana warned revenue and transport officials not to stop smaller vehicles like tractors from transporting sand. His argument was that that sand is a natural resource and locals can be allowed to use it for construction. This ha...
A letter purportedly written by Union minister Kishore Chandra Deo to the Congress high command against PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana has caused a storm in State politics. However, both have denied any news of the existence of such a letter.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana has issued a fiat to Congress leaders and ministers asking them to strongly defend the Congress's stand on Muslims against the onslaught by the MIM, which had withdrawn support to the Congress last week. Botsa has sent a reply to ...
Andhra Pradesh's Transport Minister Botsa Sathyanarayana finally breaks his silence and says that he did not loot the State's money for the extravagant wedding he threw for his daughter. Botsa said that he did not use the State's functionary, but pictures say ...
Recent revelations show how the Andhra Pradesh Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana Rao misused his position and got the state machinery to bend over backwards for his daughter's wedding. Private taxi operators reveal how they were coerced into the Minister'...
It is being called the mega wedding of Andra Pradesh. Nearly 700 constables, 35 DSPs and 120 SHOs were reportedly deployed to ensure the wedding of Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayana's daughter went off smoothly. Spilling into crores, the wedding has been call...
Andhra Pradesh Minister Botsa Satyanarayana Rao is being accused of misusing his position and utilising the service of government officials for the wedding of his daughter. The Deputy Transport Commissioner had ordered private taxis to be at the service of the...
The upcoming wedding of Andhra Pradesh Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana’s daughter has come to the limelight following reports that the state government is sponsoring the wedding. There are also reports that Satyanarayana is using the service of state ...
TDP's chapter has closed long ago. Sharmila Reddy's padyatra is her search for finding a place within the YSR Congress party. Botsa Satyanarayana, PCC chief, is at his rustic best when it comes to throwing sarcasm at the Opposition. Here is launches an attack ...
K Chandrasekhar Rao has been confabulating with top Congress leaders in Delhi. KCR has earlier met Vayalar Ravi and then had Palvai Goverdhan Reddy as one of his visitors. Meanwhile his son KT Ramarao met PCC chief Botsa Satyanaryana at his residence. Are thes...
The State Government is consulting its Law Department and the Advocate General on going to the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court over reservations for the backward castes in the elections to the local bodies. The High Court decision had come as...
When the Congress general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs lands in Hyderabad, leaders of all shades and sizes troop to register their grouses with this emissary from the High Command. Ghulam Nabi Azad was in Hyderabad. It is now learnt that at le...
After Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, it his state ministers who are queuing to Delhi to meet their central leaders. Leading this Delhi march is Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha, followed by Rayapati Sambasiva Ra...
Every party in the state has hankering after the votes of the Backward Communities. Into this complex 'khichdi', PCC chief and the foremost voice among the BCs in the Congress has asked all the parties that are promising the moon to the BCs- why don't you give...
PCCc chief Botsa Satyanaraana flies off to Delhi with a list of issues for the Congress High Command to address. And topping the list is the issue of Dharmana Prasad Rao who has been named in the FIR filed by the CBI in in the VANPIC land case.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana says Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy would meet the Prime Minister on need for greater supply of gas to power plants in Andhra Pradesh. Botsa also says all gas based power plants in Andhra Pradesh are privately owned, unlike the ...
The Congress has a new game plan ready to tackle debacles such as the one the party faced in the recent by polls. Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao who headed the committee formed to analyse the reasons for the debacle has said the party needed to concentrate on S...
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana takes pain to explain that the YSR Congress party would always remain an enemy of the Congress. Botsa also said YS Vijayamma's 'deeksha' at Sircilla was a political exercise and had nothing to to do with the welfare of the weavers...
Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao meets Ghulam Nabi Azad, and says PCC chief Botsa Satyanaryana was acting on his own in appointments within the Andhra Pradesh state Congress.
Congress minister Botsa Satyanarayana says the backwards classes are the Congress' patent. He was responding to questions being raised over the state government providing legal aid to the ministers who were arrested or were named by the Supreme Court in its o...
Sonia Gandhi meets virtually all the top leaders, MPs, ministers and others of the Andhra Pradesh Congress. Why is this sudden escalation of interest in the party's state of affairs?
This 7 pm discussion deals with Sonia Gandhi's escalating interest in her party's affairs in Andhra Pradesh. What actually is happening to the Congress party and its government in Andhra Pradesh? Because for the last three days, virtually all ministers, leader...
The main accused in the June 21 clashes at Lakshmipeta in Vangara mandal of Srikakulam district, Botsa Vasudev Naidu, was arrested by the CID in Hyderabad where he was hiding at house of close relatives.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi continue their direct meetings with leaders from Andhra Pradesh. It is a day of meetings of Congress High Command with CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana. CM was called since Pranab was filing his nomination pa...
The raids by the Road Transport Authority officials enters its sixth day, and the tally so far of seizures of buses is- over 200 private luxury buses and 300 school buses. Whether it Visakhapatnam or Vijayawada or Hyderabad, across the state, buses are stopped...
On the day he landed in Delhi, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy meets a line up of who's who of the UPA government- Sonia, Azad, Antony, Pranab. PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana met just Sonia. And this is said to be a three-day tour. This pattern of meetings has...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and Botsa Satyanarayana are reaching Delhi to meet Sonia Gandhi. On agenda is of course the report on reasons for Congress debacle in by-polls, lessons from Jagan Mohan Reddy's victory and Presidential elections. Would the Cong...
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana rubbishes claims that any sympathy for Jagan Mohan Reddy was responsible for YSR Congress winning, and blamed the Congress' poor performance on certain basic issues livelihood issues that the voting public faced in the months duri...
The blast at steel melting shop SMS 2 of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant happened when senior managers and employees were at work fixing a problem, when suddenly there was an blast at the oxygen plant. Most deaths happened at the spot. The toll could rise. A few in...
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana says that the Congress Government will survive despite the blackmail being resorted to by few MLAs deserting to the YSR Congress.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana rubbishes Jagan Mohan Reddy's allegation about his imminent arrest just before the by-elections, and says Jagan himself forced the elections on the public.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu demands a CBI inquiry against 20 Congress ministers, including PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, on corruption charges.
Jagan Mohan Reddy writes a letter to the CEC and the Prime Minister detailing what he calls a conspiracy hatched by the Congress, CM, TDP, Governor and a section of media to get him arrested.
Reacting to allegations made by TDP senior leader, Varla Ramaiah, Tollywood producer Bandla Ganesh says that he is only a follower of PCC chief Botsa, not his benami.
In a clear case of dissidence, within the Andhra Pradesh Congress, its leaders are engaging in blame game, with the CM being reduced to a mute spectator.
Watch this episode of Encounter With Murali Krishna with PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, who talks about his family's alleged links with the liquor syndicate.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu protests against the liquor syndicates in Vizianagaram, a traditional stronghold of Congress leader Botsa Satyanarayana, amid prohibitory orders from the police.
Chandrababu Naidu wins the day in Vizianagaram as he manages to break though the heavy police presence, hold a rally, and also take potshots at Botsa on his home turf.
Section 144 has been imposed near the Collector's office in Vizianagaram, ahead of rallies planned by both the TDP and the Congress, at the same venue.
Vizianagaram locals are baffled by the competitive politics indulged in by the TDP and the Congress, over the staging of dharnas on the same day, and at the same time.
The situation in Vizianagaram is tense, as both Chandrababu Naidu and Botsa Satyanarayana have announced plans to stage a dharna on the same day, and at the same venue.
Vayalar Ravi, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana meet to discuss the selection of candidates for the upcoming by-elections.
Is Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy being cornered by his partymen and cabinet colleagues who have complained to the Congress high command of his attitude?
After PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana's home district of Vizianagaram, it is Chittoor, the home district of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, that has the highest number of liquor shops.