Stepping up his attack on Telugu Desam Party, Congress Member of Parliament Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuedsay night alleged that there is a 'conspiracy' to defame his father and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has summoned Andhra Chief Minister K Rosaiah to New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the future of member of Parliament Jaganmohan Reddy, son of late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, and his supporters.
After Sonia Gandhi's re-election as the party president today, the Congress is likely to take a decision on Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's suspension on disciplinary grounds.
Member of Parliament from Kadapa Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has appealed to Andhra Pradesh ministers and members of Legislative Assembly, who threatened to quit their posts if he was not made the chief minister, to observe "restraint" and "not embarrass the Congress high command".
The Supreme Court of India on Monday remarked that it was not right to doubt the integrity of any court. The observation was made by a bench comprising of Justice B S Chavan and Justice T S Thakur, which was hearing a petition seeking transfer of cases against Chandrababu Naidu, president of the Telugu Desam Party, to a court outside Andhra Pradesh.
Fighting the Congress in the family pocket-borough of Kadapa in prestigious by-elections, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday ruled out going back to the party, saying he cannot "throw his core values" for the sake of "power and position".
Deputy Inspector General V V Lakshmi Narayana led the 10-member team, including Central and state forensic experts, which visited first time the crash site in the dense Nallamala forests in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi were among the top leaders who paid homage to late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday night. Speaking on the occasion, Rosaiah said, "Reddy had a unique personality. He always kept his word and his leadership qualities made people admire him. No surprise that he never lost an election in his long political career since 1978."
The state government has also set up a two-member expert committee to investigate the crash, Home Minister Savita Reddy informed media persons in Hyderabad.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi paid glowing tributes to the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in Hyderabad on Friday.
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said he would be ordering an inquiry into the tragic accident, and added that notwithstanding the inclement weather, it was the pilot's duty to determine a flight could be taken or not.
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As the massive search operation to locate Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who went missing over Nallamalla forest in Kurnool district, resumed on Thursday morning, some new information has forced the authorities to consider the possibility of the helicopter crashing in Srisailam reservoir. Some local fishermen have alerted the authorities that they have spotted the presence of oil in the backwaters of Srisailam reservoir on river Krishna in the area.
The massive search operation, to locate the missing helicopter of Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterY S Rajasekhara Reddy, resumed at 6 am on Thursday morning, with three special aircraft and five helicopters. Atmakur, a small town in the Nallamalla forest area, has become the nerve centre of the operation as hundreds of personnel from various forces, including the state police and paramilitary, reached the place to comb the forest area.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was embarking upon another major public contact program of "Rachabanda" (Village square) to have a better understanding of the situation at the grass root level when his helicopter went missing on Wednesday.
She met with Defence Minister A K Antony, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, her political secretary Ahmed Patel and others on Wednesday evening to take stock of the situation.
The Andhra Pradesh Civil Aviation Corporation, which manages the two government-owned helicopters, has ruled out the possibility of the Bell 430 helicopter carrying state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy having crashed.
Creating a stir in the political circles, the film star-turned-politician and member of Lok Sabha of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, Vijayshanti, on Friday met the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was on Friday forced to abandon his tour of Telangana region after he was taken into preventive custody at a railway station in Nalgonda district following violence and police firing that left 16 people injured.
The police in Warangal district recovered 10 kgs of explosives attached to a timer at Mahbubabad bus stand on Thursday, a day before the controversial tour of Kadapa Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to the region, amid strong opposition from almost all the political parties.
Even before Telugu actor Chiranjeevi could formally announce his foray into politics, political parties in the state have started wooing other stars to counter the superstar's political party, which is expected to be launched in August.On Monday, Telugu actor Rajasekhar met Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and expressed his keenness to join the Congress party. The Telugu Desam party is banking on popular stars like N Balakrishna, NTR Junior and Kalyan Ram.
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had been insisting for all district collectors to adopt socially accountable governance.
"There are other factors as well that led to the crash which we have explained in our report. But there was no failure of the helicopter (Bell-430) engine. Similarly, the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) contained no clues about the alleged conspiracy theory in the crash," committee members H S Khola and M R Reddy told newpersons.
A special court of the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Hyderabad directed the Bureau on Friday to register a case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah and nine others in an alleged corruption case relating to a controversial irrigation project.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who chaired Tuesday's cabinet meeting, the last before the announcement of the poll schedule, presented the results of three different extensive surveys across the state before the ministers.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Reddy said though the CB-CID had been in constant touch with other investigating agencies, there were issues that needed to be looked into by central government organisations such as the Income Tax department, Enforcement Directorate, Registrar of Companies, Ministry of Company Affairs, Serious Fraud Investigation Office and the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
N Chandrababu Naidu wanted a judicial probe by a sitting judge into the affairs of Satyam Computer Services, Maytas Infra, Maytas Properties, the 14 companies promoted by Jaganmohan Reddy and also Heritage Foods owned by his (Naidu's) wife and family.
The Andhra Pradesh police has booked a case against a Telugu television news channel for carrying "unverified" report alleging that a Mumbai-based corporate house -- referring to the corporate houses of Anil and Mukesh Ambani -- had been involved in an alleged conspiracy behind the death of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in September last year.
The activists of Madiga Reservation Porta Samithi managed to climb the assembly building and threatened to jump over in support of their demand. They raised slogans against the Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for the alleged delay in their categorisation of SC
Referring to the various infrastructure projects being executed by Maytas and its joint venture partners in the state, the chief minister said: "If we have genuine doubt about their capabilities, we will look at alternatives. If work can go without any problem, we will continue. We will only see that there is no risk to the government."
In a big setback to the chief ministerial ambitions of YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the Congress high command has decided to ignore his claim over a ticket for the by-elections to the Pulivendula Assembly constituency which fell vacant due after his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's death. Instead, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has decided to field YSR's widow and Jagan's mother Vijayalakshmi as Congress candidate in Pulivendula, where by election will be held on December 19.
AP Minister Konda Surekha recently resigned to protest the Congress leadership's reluctance to appoint Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's successor.
Despite the reservations of the party high command, Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday resumed his controversial yatra in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
Even though Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of the late leader, has announced that he will not take part in any of the state government sponsored programmes, he has written to the party high command seeking to make peace.
Late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's son, Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is still riding high on the the recent bypoll success, is making news once again.
The power struggle in Andhra Pradesh Congress party continuing since the sudden death of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is fast heading towards its climax as there are indications that the party's central leadership will invite YSR's son and a claimant of CM's gaddi Jaganmohan Reddy to Delhi to strike out a compromise formula.
The flyover was built over a period of about three years at a cost of Rs 600 crore.
Congress leaders close to Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy disagreed with the party high command's idea of consoling the kin of those who died after Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's death by assembling them at respective district headquarters. "I don't think it is proper to ask the family members of those who died after Rajasekhara Reddy's death to assemble at the district headquarters to offer them financial assistance. "
The demand for making Kadappa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy the state chief minister in place of his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took an ugly turn with his supporters in the name of Jagan Yuva Sena allegedly tearing down a huge banner carrying the pictures of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former minister Renuka Choudhary in the Khammam district Congress committee office.
Eleven of the 33 party MPs from Andhra Pradesh met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is expected to go to Hyderabad sometime later for resolving the issue, and put up their case that late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's son should be given the top job in the state.
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