The campaign for making Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, son of the late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Rajasekhara Reddy, gathered pace on Friday with his supporters losing no time and taking up the issue with Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
"(Former PM) Atal Bihari Vajpayee said 'raj dharma' was not followed in Gujarat (during the 2002 riots). Now, 'raj dharma' is not being followed in case of Andhra Pradesh. We have been denied what was rightfully ours," he claimed.
Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday expressed confidence that he would become the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh "sometime in future".
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday said he has sought appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to demand special category status for Bihar.
Thirty-six-year-old Jagan, who along with his mother and other family members returned to Hyderabad on Sunday after performing the last rites of his father in home town Pulivendula, issued a statement urging his supporters to remain calm, exercise restraint and leave the decision to the Congress high command.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah may be shifted as Governor of Karnataka or Madhya Pradesh on account of his fragile health.
The chairperson and a member are at loggerheads and the chief minister sacks the chairperson.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan was on Saturday sworn in as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for third consecutive term, nearly a week after he led Bharatiya Janata Party to a spectacular hat-trick in Assembly elections.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday extended an olive branch to rebel Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who is facing mounting criticism due to the anti-party campaign by his TV channel.Kiran Reddy, who is in New Delhi for discussions with the high command on the constitution of his cabinet, said it was for the party high command to decide on whether to take any disciplinary action against Jagan.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday virtually dared former Congress Member of Parliament S Jaganmohan Reddy to pull down his government, bluntly telling him that he was not at his mercy.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah, who took over on Thursday last after the death of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash, has asked the police officials not to cause difficulties to the citizens by stopping traffic on the roads of Hyderabad and Secunderabad to facilitate the movement of his car.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy has urged the Ministry of External Affairs to request the government of United Arab Emirates to consider giving formal legal resident status to illegal immigrants from India
Low pressure over south-central Maharashtra and south Konkan is likely to move over the Arabian Sea and intensify into a depression in the next 48 hours, the India meteorological department said on Thursday. Under the influence of this cyclonic circulation, heavy rains are expected over the ghat areas of Maharashtra, Konkan and south Gujarat during the next two days, the IMD said.
The affected trains include Falaknuma, Palnadu, Amaravati Express and Macherla-Bhimavaram Passenger.
Doctors, who monitored Jagan's health condition said that the ketones in his body have risen which may lead to kidney-related problems.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday sought permission from the Centre to carry out a Rs 2,400-crore special road corridor development project to effectively deal with Naxalism, besides requesting for a helicopter to carry out swift air operations.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today said Congress would take stock of the manner in which Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was conducting his yatra in Srikakulam district.
'He keeps reminding me he is senior. There is no debate in this. I have never shown any disrespect to you since you are a senior,' the PM said.
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government is ready to make all the amendments suggested by the Bharatiya Janata Party on the Telangana bill barring one.
Several ministers in his government joined Naidu in the fast, which was held in all 13 districts of the state.
KCR is now having to resort to the lowest common denominator in elections: Reservations.
'The handling of the pandemic, under this totally constitutional and legal three-level dictatorship, has begun to show its downside,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
In a survey conducted by Nielsen, for Telugu news channel NTV, an overwhelming 78 per cent of the electorate in Andhra Pradesh stated that they would like to see Jaganmohan Reddy succeed his father YSR Rajasekhara Reddy as the next chief minister. According to the survey, the results of which were also released by the Congress Legislature Party, caretaker Chief Minister K Rosaiah was second on the popularity chart with 13 per cent support.
The Andhra Pradesh Government has set up 14 teams, each consisting of eight members (112 personnel), to search for missing Chief Minister Y S Rajshekhar Reddy and the seven-seater Bell chopper in which he was traveling to Chitoor District.
In the 56-page report released to the media after laying down office as Vigilance Commissioner, R C Samal accused three ministers and 18 senior All India Services (IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service) officials of indulging in corrupt practices.
The much-awaited decision was announced by Chief Minister Konijeti Rosaiah at a news conference on Wednesday.
"In politics, there is no such thing as a breaking point. On some issues, we may agree and on others we may come together. Only at the time of elections, the issue of coming together or otherwise will arise," he said.
The Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan sex scandal and the paternity suit a love child filed against Tiwari dogged him in his 80s.
Reacting to the development, Naidu said such crises were not new to the party.
The Left and the Congress may be at loggerheads at the Centre, but Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy does not rule out the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the Left parties in the state.
The worst flood in Andhra Pradesh, which left a trail of death and destruction, has dampened the campaign to make late Andhra Chief Minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy's son Jaganmohan Reddy the Chief Minister and helped interim CM K Rosaiah to consolidate his position.
The assertion comes amid speculation that the ruling party in Andhra Pradesh might rethink its ties with the BJP in view of its disappointment over allocation of funds to the state in the Union Budget.
Amid indications that the BJP high command may ask him to step down in the wake of alleged land scams, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa left for Puttaparthi on Monday to "seek the blessings" of Sri Satya Sai Baba.
While AP Chief Minister Ken Rosaiah has thanked the central government for the move to set up the IISc's second campus in the backward district of Anantapur in AP, his Karnataka counterpart B S Yeddyurappa has made it clear that the second IISc campus would come up in Chitradurga district of Karnataka.
The TDP supremo said he had not contacted any party yet but given the 'TDP's credibility' they were supporting the no-trust motion.
On October 1, he had survived an attempt on his life while on his way to the hill shrine.
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