The hunger strike over the issue of power taken by first by the Left parties, who were forcibly admitted to hospital, and then TDP leaders could well be start of a new political alliance in Andhra Pradesh. Even though YSR Congress looks to corner the Congress ...
The presence of Jr NTR's picture on a flex board announcing the start of Sharmila Reddy's padyatra in Krishna district has set off a political chain reaction. TDP blames Jr NTR's friend Kodali Nani for putting up the flex banner of a family member of the leade...
The CBI has now fixed its sight on KVP Ramachandra Rao, the once all-powerful advisor, and importantly confidante and friend to the former Chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. KVP has been asked to appear before CBI today in connection with the ongoing investi...
YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayamma reads out from a prepared statement during the debate on the no-confidence motion. Her speech is followed by that of Labour Minister Danam Nagender who says it is unfortunate that the YSR Congress is supporting the ...
Shobha Nagi Reddy once lay at the feet of Chandrababu Naidu when she was in the TDP and now that she is in the YSR Congress party, she has no right to criticise the TDP party chief, says Seethakka, TDP leader.
On the third day of the Budget session of the AP Assembly, Speaker Nadendla Manohar announces the tabling of two no-confidence motions, one from the TRS and another from the YSR Congress.
The TDP has asked its MLAs to remain neutral during the no confidence motion in the Assembly. The TRS has issued notice of no confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government that could come up for discussion in the Assembly tomorrow.
A Congressman for 30 years, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy today left the Congress to join Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress. He met Jagan Mohan Reddy at Chanchalguda jail. He is interviewed after meeting Jagan, where he lays out the reasons for leaving the Congr...
Longtime critic of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and hailing from the same district, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy is all set to join the YSR Congress party. In recent times, the distance between Peddireddy and the Congress leadership has grown to such exten...
The party formed by Jagan Mohan Reddy after he stormed out of the Congress blaming the High Command for side-lining him, the true heir of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, completes two years. For nearly a year now, its president is in jail, and his mother, the honorary p...
Chandrababu Naidu says that the public should now realise that the YSR Congress party and the Congress are in cahoots. He was referring to the statement by YSRCP's honorary president YS Vijayamma that her party would support the Congress after the 2014 general...
Among the leaders who attacked the YSR Congress party's honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi over her interview was Nara Lokesh. Lokesh used twitter to criticize Vijayamma's statement in that interview in which she had said her party would support the Congress ...
YSR Congress' honorary president YS Vijayamma's interview to an English newspaper that her party was ready to support the Congress after the 2014 general elections has stunned the politics in the state. The TDP says YSR Congress had been exposed as also its pr...
Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao attacks YSR Congress YS Vijayamma, YSR Congress party's honorary president over her suggestion in an interview that she was ready to support the Congress after the 2014 elections. He says the Congress has not asked for t...
The YSR Congress party has come out with a clarification on the statements made by the party's honorary president YS Vijayamma on their party's support to the Congress after the 2014 general elections. Party leader Ambati Rambabu says the interview given by Vi...
TRS leader KT Rama Rao finds fault with the reported statement of YS Vijayamma, the honorary president of the YSR Congress party, that her party would support the Congress in the 2014 general elections. He said the YSRCP is trying to save its president Jagan M...
YS Vijayamma's interview to a newspaper that her party, the YSRCP, was ready to come to an arrangement for the 2014 elections, has revealed the true face of party, says the TDP. P Keshav says YS Vijayamma and Jagan Mohan Reddy reveal their true nature only to ...
Chandrababu Naidu continues his attacks on Jagan Mohan Reddy during his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padayatra. He mocked Jagan Mohan Reddy's partymen by saying that while people start a venture by offering coconuts at a temple, in the case of YSRCP, coconuts are brok...
During the 'Vastunna Meekosam Padayatra', TDP President Chandrababu Naidu appealed to the youth of Andhra Pradesh to strengthen their spirit for the fight against corruption. He also said that the Congress party had become the hub of corrupt politics.
In the DCCB elections in Guntur, local YSR Congress leaders voted for the Congress. These leaders said they were not aware that their party is boycotting the DCCB elections and hence they decided to cast votes to the Congress leaders they preferred. But presid...
Many party workers of YSR Congress in Anantapur say they were among the first people to join Jagan Mohan Reddy and now they were being sidelined. These party workers tried to raise their voices at the YSRCP meeting in the town, but were thrown out.
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 ...
Chandrababu Naidu and Sharmila Reddy are at each other's throats. Naidu attacked the YSR Congress party and mocked leaders who he said had to rush to (Chanchalguda) jail instead of a holy place to launch their programmes. Naidu has been enthused by TDP's good ...
Tollywood actor Srihari meets Jagan Mohan Reddy in Chanchalguda jail. Srihari says he will stand by Jagan and will contribute in any way possible to Jagan's political party.
Brother Anil is the target of the BJP. It has levelled a series of allegations against Brother Anil of combining religion, politics and business. He has been accused of using his connections as the son-in-law of then chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy to amass...
TDP showed photos to claim that Sharmila Reddy faked injuries. The allegations were made by Gali Mudukrishnama Naidu at a press conference. Gali said Sharmila faked injury in her leg during her padyatra in December. The injury had forced Sharmila to cut her pa...
Using photos of Sharmila Reddy visiting her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Chanchaulguda jail, the TDP questioned if Sharmila was really injured, or was just faking injury to her leg to cut short her padyatra last December. TDP's Gali Mudukrishnama Naidu sho...
Sharmila Reddy begins her padayatra from Turkayamjal. It will be the first time she is stepping into the Telangana region as part of her padayatra. She had discontinued it on December 14 due to a leg injury.
Sharmila Reddy is back on the road. The sister of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy will continue her padayatra from today. She had to discontinue it on December 14 last year due to an injury. Expectedly, the TRS and dalits have raised objections to her...
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...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Sharmila Reddy has no moral right to conduct a padayatra in the Telangana region, says Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha. She said that the YSR Congress party has not expressed a clear stand on the issue of Telangana and therefo...
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, Anakapalle MP, Sabbam Hari, talks about the dilemma of a person elected on a Congress ticket working actively for a rival party, Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress party. Hari also answers questions of other YSR C...
There seems to be no respite to Jagan Mohan Reddy's plight as his bail application has been rejected by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in the alleged disproportionate assets case. The CBI had filed an affidavit in court saying there has been a delay in the inve...
YSR Congress party has been accused of being the mastermind of the recent statements of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi that attacked the Hindu religious sentiments. Mysoora Reddy, the YSRCP spokesperson formally says he condemns the speech made by Akbaruddin and al...
Are Akbaruddin Owaisi and his elder brother Akaruddin Owaisi trying to stoke communal passions so as to checkmate the formation of a separate Telangana state? The MIM set about its rallies and meeting across the Telangana region to explain to its supporters wh...
Years ago, when the TDP had not yet given a clear pro-Telangana stand, many TDP leaders from Telangana had quit the party and joined the TRS. Now, a week after TDP's green signal to Telangana at last week's all-party meeting, there are a few leaders ready to j...
TRS leader Harish Rao reacts to the conclusion of the all-party meeting on Telanagana in Delhi. He starts by recounting the history of the Centre's dilly-dallying on the issue, and speaks on the stand of the YSR Congress party and the TDP at the all-party meet...
A battle has broken out. It started with Konda Surekha's explosive dialogue at a Parkala meeting: KCR's family should commit suicide. This set off a chain reaction of protests and effigy burning, that started from Warangal and spread to Hyderabad and Karimnaga...
Senior leader of the Congress in Adilabad and former MP Indrakaran Reddy will formally join the YSR Congress party at a public meeting in Nirmal town. YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayamma will be present for the meeting. Also joining the YSRCP is ex-ML...
Announcement of an all-party meeting on December 28 on the issue of Telangana statehood has set the cat among the pigeons in political circles in Andhra Pradesh. Telangana Congress MPs say this meeting would make it clear which parties are for and against the ...
YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy was taken to the CBI court at Gagan Mahal from the Chanchalguda jail. The CBI demanded an extension of his remand, and the Court extended it till December 19. The High Court had rejected his bail petition earlier....
The Backward Communities and the minorities also need a sub-plan on the lines provided by the state government to the SCs/STs, demands Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao. VH also criticised Jagan Mohan Reddy's party YSR Congress as the party of the forward caste...
YSR Congress leader Udayabhanu makes a shocking statement--they would if needed break the walls of jail and release Jagan Mohan Reddy. Reacting to this, TDP's Devineni Uma has demanded that a suo moto case be registered against Udayabhanu for this statement, a...
Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha replies to YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Sharmila Reddy's comments on her father and TRS chief KCR. Sharmila Reddy in her meeting at Karimnagar has asked KCR to touch her feet. Kavitha says Sharmila's ...
Guess who is the new enemy of the TRS? It is not the TDP or the Congress. It is the YSR Congress party. One speaker at the Suryapet meeting even coined a new term, 'jaffa' means a person who is a Jagan follower. So why did this happen? Why is YSRCP now becomin...
The 'tandri congress, pilla Congress' or 'mother-son' Congress party is destroying the state, says Chandrababu Naidu. His reference was to YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother, and the party's honorary president, YS Vijayamma. Naidu says s...
YSR Congress leader Sharmila Reddy's padyatra will enter the Rayalaseema region today afternoon at Alampur in Mahabubnagar district. The YSRCP is continuing its efforts to co-opt leaders from other parties into its fold. Former Congress MLA Gurunath Reddy's so...
Are the Congress leaders in Telangana restive over the issue of Telangana? Are some leaders of the party thinking of breaking away from the party? Congress MLA Komatireddy Venkatreddy has announced that he will form a new front for the cause of Telangana. He w...
Never before has Andhra Pradesh politics seen just a ferment. Politicians are sending out confusing signals. Each day brings out news of a leader signalling he is ready to make a shift to another party. One glaring example: TDP leader P Keshav, who held a pres...
The YSR Congress party has been questioning the TDP over its reluctance to table a no-confidence motion against the Congress government. This time, with Mamata Bannerjee announcing she will table a no-confidence motion against the UPA government in the Centre ...
Those who think placing a no-confidence motion is a cakewalk and that the TDP was not tabling such a motion for selfish reasons are totally wrong, says Chandrababu Naidu. Naidu was reacting to allegations made by the YSR Congress and the TRS that Naidu was wit...
Vijayawada's politics spills over to the city's famous Kanakadurga temple. The executive officer in-charge of Vijayawada's Kanakadurga temple has registered a case against YSR Congress leader Vangaveeti Radha and TDP leader Buddha Venkanna for staging a dharna...
Chandrababu Naidu's has had to break his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra for the third time. Naidu is taking a break again, right after he took the break to attend the funeral ceremony of his party leader Yerran Naidu. Naidu, who has expected to start from Palam...
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...
YSR Congress leader Sharmila Reddy ends her padyatra in her mother's Pulivendula constituency. All along her mother YS Vijayamma watched her daughter in action. At one time she even walked in the rain.
If Rajaanna's rule comes back, and if Jagananna become chief minister, then all your problems will be solved: that is Sharmila Reddy's speech to a young boy who was in tears when he said he did not go to school and that the frequently remained hungry. Sharmil...
'I am Rajanna's daughter and Jagananna's sister. I am Sharmila.' These were the words with which Sharmila Reddy started her padyatra. The family first prayed at the grave of YSR at the family estate in Kadapa and then Sharmila and her mother YS Vijayamma addre...
They are all into padyatras. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy was first off the block, starting his 'Indiramma Bata', touring one district each month. Chandrababu Naidu is on his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra. And now Sharmila Reddy of the YSR Congress party w...
It has been quite some time since Jagan Mohan Reddy has been in jail. Starved of any programme that would keep the YSR Congress party in the limelight, the party is now all set to use the services of his sister Sharmila Reddy for a 'padyatra'. Sharmila has ear...
The YSR Congress party leaders met the party office to discuss their future course of action. Konathala Ramakrishna brief the media about the issues the party would take up.
It is the season for yatras in Andhra Pradesh. CM Kiran Kumar Reddy keeps hopping to districts on his Indiramma Bata, a yatra that is expected to expand his 'range' as a leader on his own right. Then of course there is Chandrababu Naidu's 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' ...
One shock after another shock. A day after the Enforcement Directorate ordered attachment of his properties worth Rs 51 crores, his bail petition was dismissed. What are the legal options open to him? His mother says it is a conspiracy by the TDP. Jagan Mohan ...
The Supreme Court has rejected Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea. The 40-year old MP had moved the Supreme Court for bail against the Andhra Pradesh High Court order, which denied him relief. The CBI arrested Jagan Mohan Reddy on the allegation that he pressured ...
In a huge setback, YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The CBI arrested Jagan Mohan Reddy on the allegation that he pressured companies to invest in his father's business empire. The YSR Congress Chief was taken ...
YSR Congress chief waits for the Supreme Court to deliver its verdict on his bail plea four months after he was arrested for disproportionate assets. The Enforcement Directorate attaches his Rs 52 crore worth property, a move Reddy's family calls foul play and...
Is KVP Ramachandra Rao the new weapon in the armoury of the Congress High Command to combat the influence of the YSR Congress party? Can KVP act effectively to reduce the latent attraction of many Congress leaders towards Jagan Mohan Reddy? KVP was behind the ...
Politics in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh is heating up. YSR Congress president YS Vijayamma is expected to hold an agitation on the issue of fee reimbursements. At this meeting defectors from the TDP, like Kodali Nani and Uppuleti Kalpana, are likely...
Top Congress leaders shower full praise on YS Rajasekhara Reddy at the unveiling of a book on his padyatra at an event in Delhi. But state Congress leaders say it is not right for many state ministers to go to Delhi for the event that was organised by KVP Rama...
That KVP Ramachandra Rao is still insisting on the Congress retaining YSR's photos and presence across the party programmes has been shown time and again, something that has angered many senior Congressmen like V Hanumantha Rao. Now KVP is organising a event a...
What have you done for BCs that I have not done- this is what each party in Andhra Pradesh is challenging other parties with. One party says it has appointed a BC as leader, YS Vijayamma says she will give tickets to 100 backward community leaders. TDP has a B...
Anam Vivekananda Reddy says as wife of then chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, YS Vijayalakshmi failed to discourage her son from indulging in corrupt practices, and he forced many ministers to toe his line. As a result of this today many ministers belonging...
Daughter of late Congress leader P Janardhan Reddy, Vijaya Reddy has now joined YSR Congress Party. YS Vijayalakshmi and other leaders of the party were present on the occasion when Vijaya arrived in Jubilee Hills at the YSR Congress headquarters. She said bo...
TRS leader KT Rama Rao takes Chief Minister to task over denial of gas allotment to Shankarpally and Nedinuru gas-based power projects in Telangana, construction of Polavaram project and injustice to medical colleges in the region. He also accused the Chief Mi...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest was held as legal by the Supreme Court. But on his other petition alleging denial of bail, the SC issued a notice to the CBI asking it to reply on Jagan's plea that he will cooperate with the investigation, and won't tamper with any ...
Are politicians in Andhra Pradesh encouraging conversion for their ow selfish ends. Are some politicians and political parties are taking up the cause of Christianity. Is politics has mixed into religion. Recent examples of conversion from Hinduism with lure o...
Newly-elected MPs Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy of the YSR Congress party and Dimple Yadav of the Samajwadi Party were sworn-in on the beginning of the monsoon session of the Parliament. Mekapati took the oath in Telugu.
They were once part of the Congress. Now Congressman Devineni Nehru is seeking a ticket for the Vijayawada East seat, his erstwhile colleague and YSR Congress party leader Vangaveeti Radha is eying the same seat. And both are doing all they can, including host...
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 leaders of Congress and YSR Congress are busy playing mind games with one another and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy from YSR Congress says some ministers from the Congress party are in touch with him and are giving them details about the party, leading to probl...
Watch a smiling and energetic looking MV Mysoora Reddy in Encounter with Murali Krishna. Mysoora is an well-read politician but his career has seen numerous ups and downs, and he has changed parties quite often. So the man who called Jagan Mohan Reddy the 'Pri...
All the Congress Chief Ministers are equal for the Congress party, says Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha. His statement is sure to startle those loyalists of former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. More so because he also said the YSR as CM did ...
In a move to get the Congress High Command to organize a brainstorming meeting to pave the way forward and internally strengthen the party, Rajya Sabha Congress member V Hanumantha Rao started his indefinite, silent protest at Gandhi Bhavan. Rao has embarked o...
Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has threatened to go on a silent protest or 'Mauvna Deeksha' until the date for a meeting with the party cadre is announced. Rao, who is agitated with the party on several accounts, is seeking an arrangement for a 'medho...
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...
Is the TRS now changing its relationship with the YSR Congress party? Now the TRS is equating the YSR Congress on the same level of hostility as it treats the TDP and Congress. Watch this discussion on crucial issue of why any party can't move around in Telang...
A woman pro-Telangana activist who climbed atop a van to protest against YS Vijayamma's 'deeksha' at Sircilla was pushed down by an activist of the YSR Congress activist. Then as she fell, YSRC party men held her by her hair, kicked her, hit her punched, until...
YSR Congress leaders blast the TRS in their speeches at Sircilla. Even as YS Vijayamma,YSR Congress' honorary president, reaches Sircilla and sits on her one-day 'deeksha', around her police keep a tight vigil. All along her route, TRS activists has tried to b...
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy withdraws his bail plea from the Supreme Court. He is all set to file a fresh bail plea in a few weeks time. Jagan Reddy is a prime accused in the a disproportionate assets case and has been lodged inside the Chanchalguda j...
A TRS worker's got into action inside a well to demand that YS Vijayalakshmi declare her party's open support to Telangana. He dropped himself into a well with a rope, He was demanding that YSR Congress declare its support for Telangana, and that YS Vijayamma ...
TRS partymen who tried to block the convoy of cars of YSR Congress party's honorary president YS Vijayamma were lathicharged in Hyderabad. The TRS wants to stop her from reaching Sircilla town north of Hyderabad.
The TRS is hell bent on stopping YSR Congress party chief YS Vijayamma from reaching Sircilla. Despite threats of protests, and TRS activists holding dharna along the entire route to Sircilla, Vijayamma's convoy of cars crossed Shamirpet on Hyderabad's outskir...
Is the Congress party and the YSR Congress coming close to an understanding or forming an alliance? The YSRCP voted for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential polls. TDP leader Revanth Reddy alleges that YSR Congress has been making wild allegation...
TDP leader Revanth Reddy points to reports of negotiations in Delhi between the Congress High Command and the YSR Congress party. Revanth alleges the YSRCP voted for Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential elections, and points calls its double-faced for its earl...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has been called many names. And one of them is being a 'covert' YSR. Now that the Congress is still continuing YSR's flagship welfare programmes, the dilemma is to how to impress the public that it is the Congress' programmes, ...