West Bengal Chief Minister suffered double blows when a sitting minister in her Cabinet lost his seat to Congress's Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and in another constituency her party came in third. Recent spate of violence in the state has not helped Banerjee in any...
Is Konda Surekha leaving the YSR Congress party? Does she want to return to the Congress? Are there differences between her and YSR Congress party leadership, and between Surekha and her husband Konda Murali? Konda Surekha is a politician whose devotion to for...
With Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee making it clear that her ministers in the Union Cabinet will formally submit their resignation on Friday, a strong possibility has emerged that her party will field a candidate against President Pranab Mukherjee’...
In this episode of Encounter with Murali Krishna, minister Dharmana Prasada Rao talks about the report he had submitted to the Chief Minister on the state of the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, its recent debacle in the by-polls, and the issues and programme...
The debacle in the by-polls has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the TDP. The party is now launching a study of all the irrigation projects launched under Jalayagnam, and corner the government on the scam involved in expenditure of crores in projects where n...
TDPs second rung leaders have told party chief Chandrababu Naidu that the party's loss in the bypolls has been due to the backward classes deserting the party. Naidu is now seized of the idea and is harping on putting BCs at the forefront of his party's strate...
A section of the Congress leaders like GV Harsha Kumar have decried Chiranjeevi claiming credit for the Congress winning in the two seats in the recent by-polls.
Jagan Reddy to remain in Chanchalaguda jail till July 4, according to the latest CBI Special Court verdict. Taking the safety plea into consideration, Jagan Reddy was produced before court through video conference. However, the court did not provide reprieve t...
Making the most of his landslide victory in the Andhra bypolls, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy is attempting to woo farmers in the state from jail. Still under the scanner for amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, Jagan Mohan R...
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...
Two leaders who actually met Sonia Gandhi after the Congress' debacle in by-polls had diametrically different receptions. Check out what Naraspur MP Kanumuri Bapiraju and Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao had to say after meeting Sonia Gandhi.
Lagadapati Rajagopal is living in fools paradise, says fellow Congress MP Sarve Satyanarayana. Sarve was reacting to Lagadapati's comment that the by-polls results have showed that people of the state seek a good administration and that issues like Telangana o...
Vijaya Reddy, daughter of the late Congress leader P janardhana Reddy met Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Chanchalguda jail. Vijaya said no immediate plans to join YSRCP, and also that she had any differences with her brother P Vishnuvardhan Reddy, who is a Congress...
Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao says he was surprised that the Kapus did not vote for the Congress in the by-polls despite Chiranjeevi joining the party. Rayapati met Sonia Gandhi and became the first leader from the state to give a report on the reasons behi...
The political JAC is at crossroads. The TRS is unhappy with JAC chairman Kodandaram, and wants him replaced by Swamy Goud. The JAC's tilt towards the TRS have lead to disquiet among its other constituents. The BJP is angry over JAC's support to TRS in the Para...
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.
Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress sweeps the by-elections in Andhra Pradesh, winning 15 out of 18 Assembly seats and one LS seat. This bypoll victory gives Jagan the much-needed leverage to win the 2014 elections and also gives Congress a hard reality check.
Centrestage | YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's wife, Bharathi Reddy, takes the hot seat and gives credence to the landslide victory in Andhra Pradesh. Claiming that the victory is more than a sympathy wave, she says that the people of Andhra Pradesh have...
TRS managed to win the Parakala Assembly seat by a slender margin of just 1562 votes. Has TRS lost its hold in Telangana, and on the Telangana sentiment? Jagga Reddy says Telangana people have lost faith in TRS. Other guests in this discussion are TRS ;leader ...
The list of winners in all the 18 Assembly seats, their margins, and the candidates they defeated. In the Nellore Lok Sabha seat, YSR Congress' Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy won by a margin of over 2 lakh against T Subbirami Reddy.
JC Diwakar Reddy blames Anantapur district incharge ministers for the party's poll debacle. Senior Congress leader JC Diwakar Reddy said voters were swayed by the sentimental campaign launched by the mother-daughter duo of Vijayamma and Sharmila. He said both...
Backed by a clear anti-incumbency vote and riding a sympathy wave for his extended judicial custody, Jagan Mohan Reddy led-YSR Congress swept the quintessential Andhra Pradesh bypolls, winning 15 of the 17 seats up for grabs. Even as his partymen celebrate, Ja...
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...
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu refused to pinpoint the reason for his party's defeat in the by-polls. But he said there there were a variety of issues behind the debacle of his party in the by-polls, and his party will review the reasons and then issue a statemen...
Former West Begal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Biman Bose have managed to convince the Left parties to back Pranab Mukherjee. The Left parties will hold a meeting on June 21 to announce their support. Pranab Mukherjee has reached the UPA meeting at 7 RCR, wh...
YSR Congress candidate Ballineni Srinivas Reddy who won the Ongole seat says the public has seen through the opposition's allegations on the VANPIC land issue. State BJP leader G Kishan Reddy says that TRS has tried to run a negative campaign against the BJP i...
YSR Congress party honorary president YS Vijayamma addresses media for first time after her party won a majority of the seats in the by-polls. YS Vijayamma says their party won despite the Congress and the TDP coming together to target Jagan Mohan Reddy. Vijay...
Sharmila, Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister, says the victory of the YSR Congress party in the by-polls has proved that voters consider Jagan is innocent. Sharmila and her mother Vijayamma met Jagan at Chanchalguda jail, and said Jagan was very happy about the result...
The results for the Parkala by-poll are being watched keenly and the even as counting enters its last five rounds, the TRS' lead seems diminishing. What is happening to TRS' hold in Parakala?
Congress leads by a huge majority in Ramachandrapuram Assembly seat, sealing the fate of YSR Congress leader Pilli Subash Chandra Bose. In Nellore Lok Sabha seat, Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy maintains his lead over Congress' T Subbirami Reddy.
Are celebrations in Andhra Pradesh going the Bihar way? Apparently unable to control his joy at the his party the YSR Congress making a near clean sweep of the by-poll results, HA Rahman fires four rounds in the air from his licenced revolver. Watch the hungam...
Will this be yet another clean sweep for the YSR Congress. Despite the controversial lead up to the by polls and Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest the counting until now and exit poll predictions say Jagan will walk away victorious.
Exit polls predict that the YSR Congress led by Jagan Mohan Reddy will rout its rivals in the byelections to one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan is in Chanchalguda prison following his arrest in a disproportionate assets case.
Will this be yet another clean sweep for the YSR Congress. Despite the controversies that lead up to the bypolls and Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest, the exit poll predictions say Jagan will walk away victorious.
From candidates, businessman, hangers on, traders, farmers and NRIs, betting on the results of June 12 by-polls has reached an all-time high. In some places it is the prospects of the YSR Congress candidates winning, or their winning or losing margins, or the...
The voting in the by-polls for 18 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat ended peacefully, with polling percentage as high as 80%. Ramachandrapuram constituency polled 85% votes, while just 55% of voters in Tirupati exercised their right in this by-e...
Centrestage | Voters of Andhra Pradesh seem to have voted against the vendetta politics played by Congress. Congress' attempts to misuse CBI has backfired as the exit polls indicate that the Congress hardly have any chance to win the by-polls. The clear winner...
A post by-poll survey estimates that except for 3-4 seats, there is a wave in favour of the YSR Congress candidates. Factors like Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest, and the entry of mother-daughter duo of Vijayamma-Sharmila into the campaign proved favourable to the ...
Polling in the crucial bypolls for 18 Assembly and one LS seat in AP begins. As many as 46 lakh voters are exercising their franchise at 5,413 polling stations set up in the State. Results of the bypolls are expected to be out by June 15.
Besides the progress of the polling process in 18 constituencies, this bulletin has the following stories- at Ongole, a slight skirmish at a polling booth, disturbance at polling booth in Railway Kodur in Kadapa, arrest of a Sakshi tv reporter in Polavaram, ef...
Polling in the crucial bypolls for 18 Assembly and one LS seat in AP begins. Will the sympathy factor work for YSR Congress? Can Jagan reconsolidate his position? Will it be a litmus test for the ruling Congress? Bypoll results will soon answers these question...
SP workers allegedly stop BJP candidate, Jagdev Singh Yadav, from filing his nominations for the Kannauj bypolls. However, the SP claim that the candidate arrived two hours late for filing his papers and it wasn't the party's fault.
Addressing the media for the first time after filing her nomination for the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat, Dimple Yadav claims that serving the people is her best option.
Ahead of the decision on Jagan Reddy's bail petition, the Home Ministry has come to the aid of the AP government with regards to any law and order turmoil arising out of the bail plea verdict.
YSR Congress Chief Jagan Reddy's bail plea comes up for hearing amidst claims that his arrest is a political conspiracy to keep him off the campaign trail -- an allegation the CBI has countered by stating he is not a candidate in the upcoming bypolls.
Watch this studio discussion on how Jagan Mohan Reddy and his family have consistently focused on talk about winning the by-polls ever since he was arrested.
TDP leader Revanth Reddy criticised TRS party for running politics with the sole aim to win “votes, notes and seats” and also took pot shots at Loksatta party chief, Jayaprakash Narayana.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to meet Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana to resolve the rift between the two.
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana have been asked to go to Delhi. The move comes in the wake of differences between CM and Botsa, Jagan Mohan Reddy's campaign and the recent Congress debacle in the by-polls.
In a historic by-poll that could herald a significant change in Myanmar political scene, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's party claims to have secured a landslide victory.
Already faced with calls for his removal as Chief Minister, Kiran Kumar Reddy is now facing a fresh challenge in the form of a renewed agitation for Telangana.