Former Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh has been removed as the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and replaced by Pratap Singh Bajwa. Sources say that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sacked Singh for non-performance and autocracy. Gandhi, wh...
The Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is set to meet PCC chiefs and CLP leaders from the northeastern states today in a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. The leaders from the northeast had not attended the early deliberat...
Taking severe steps to curb the price rise of commodities across the states was a key agenda discussed at a meeting of Pradesh Congress Committee chief in New Delhi. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala, and Kerala Chief Minister Oomm...
Rahul Gandhi, vice president of Congress, will meet all Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs and party leaders in the state Assemblies in Delhi on February 15. The meeting will discuss the challenges faced by the Congress and the steps to be taken to streng...
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...
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ministers asking them to strongly defend the Congress's stand on Muslims against the onslaught by the MIM, which had withdrawn support to the Congress last week.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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Is Chiranjeevi being called in to Delhi to sound him about a bigger role? Why is the CM,, Shankar Rao, and nearly every top Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh in Delhi right now?
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 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...
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...
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...
Sonia Gandhi's office has been meeting nearly all Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh. She is giving appointments to these leaders with a view to understand the situation in Andhra Pradesh, a state where it is in power for the second time. And leaders reporte...
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana plan to visit Delhi and consult High Command over by-election candidates.
Vayalar Ravi, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana meet to discuss the selection of candidates for the upcoming by-elections.
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.
K Srinivas Reddy the IPS officer who headed the SIT team in charge of ACB raids on liquor syndicate was transferred to another post. Was this transfer done under pressure from politicians involved in liquor syndicate?
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.
PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana speaks on alleged differences with Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, issues within state Congress, ACB raids on liquor syndicate, and CBI's investigation of Jagan Mohan Reddy's alleged illegal assets.
AICC member Krishnamurthy's flash visit to Hyderabad has set Congress minds working. Is he in Hyderabad to gauge the mood for a leadership change in the state?