With rumours of more Telugu Desam leaders packing their bags to heads towards film star Chiranjeevi's camp or the ruling Congress party, TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu has decided to cut short his Mee Kosam Yatra and return to the base in Hyderabad.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, soon after recommending dissolution of the legislative assembly on Friday, had told reporters he would favour elections in February. That now looks unlikely.
T Devender Goud, the former No 2 in the Telugu Desam Party, formally launched a new regional political party 'Nava Telangana Praja Party' by unveiling a colourful flag of the party, declaring that the formation of Telangana state was the goal of the party.
The suspended members were escorted out of the House by marshals.
The CBI will now have all powers to take up corruption and other cases in AP.
T Devender Goud, who quit the Telugu Desam party over the Telangana issue, has made it clear that his future political plans do not include any tie up with the Telangana Rahstra Samiti of K Chandrasekhara Rao or any other political party. Goud, the former No 2 of the TDP, told mediapersosn that he has convened a meeting of the intellectuals and the elders, who have been associated with the Telangana movement, on June 28.
Even as the beleaguered TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to bulldoze Goud by pitting several other leaders against him, more and more senior leaders from Telangana region are coming out in support of Goud.
This time the battle for the 175-member assembly will be between TDP and Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress.
The TDP also distanced itself from the National Democratic Alliance, during the latter's boycott of Parliament.\n\n
Naidu, in an interview to PTI speaks about the differences that arose between the BJP and the TDP.
The opposition National Democratic Alliance, of which the TDP is a part, has decided to continue its boycott of Parliament through the entire budget session.
The Andhra Pradesh assembly took up the marathon debate on the no-confidence motion tabled by the main opposition TDP against the Congress government. This is the first time that the present government is facing a no-trust motion even as it completes four years in power. The TDP attacked the Congress government for alleged acts of omission and commission.
Opposition members said renaming of the new greenfield airport at Shamsbad after dropping the name of the late N T Rama Rao hurt "Telugu pride".
Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Friday said that the party is in talks with both the Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference and would like to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir.
The federal agency had arrested 46-year-old Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, from her Banjara hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15.
Those joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers for the first time include three former chief ministers -- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana) and H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka).
The TDP has expressed its concern over hardline statements emanating from the party after Advani took over as president.
The 17th Metropolitan Magistrate had issued the warrant in July 2003 in connection with a case registered against the Samajwadi Party MP during the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad election in 2002.
A day after the pro-reformist Telugu Desam Party government received a drubbing in Andhra Pradesh assembly elections, the Planning Commission on Wednesday cast doubts over levying user charges for providing key inputs to rural farmers.
"The matter should be inquired by a team of three chief ministers, including Buddhadeb Battacharjee (West Bengal), Nitish Kumar (Bihar) and J Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu)," he said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced income tax relief for the middle class, a Rs 2 lakh crore outlay for job creation schemes over the next five years and a spending splurge for states run by her party's new coalition partners as she unveiled the Modi 3.0 government's first budget after the general elections.
Over 7,500 party leaders, including assembly constituency-level coordination committee members, will get mobiles.
