Hyderabad: For the second day in a row, the Telangana statehood issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly leading to two adjournments this morning. When the House began at 9 AM, TDP and TRS legislators from the region stormed the Speaker's podium holding placards and raising slogans demanding that the House pass a resolution seeking creation of Telangana state. Speaker Nadendla Manohar rejected an adjournment motion moved by TRS, TDP, BJP...
12:43 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The ruling Congress on Wednesday drew a blank in Andhra Pradesh bypolls as TRS candidates won four seats, while TRS backed independent, YSR Congress and the BJP won one seats each in the bypoll to seven assembly constituencies in the state. The by-elections to seven assembly seats - Station Ghanpur, Kamareddy, Adilabad, Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Kovur and Mehabubnagar - six of them in Telangana region, were held on Sunday. The...
01:46 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Hyderabad: The counting of votes for the bypolls to seven Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh would be taken up on Wednesday. Elaborate administrative and security arrangements have been made for the counting of votes, state Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal told reporters here today. EVMs were used in the elections for which polling was held on March 18. The counting process would begin at 8 am and the results are...
04:46 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: A petition challenging the continuance of N Kiran Kumar Reddy as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister has been withdrawn from the Supreme Court by MLA Venu Gopala Chary after the former won a no-trust motion last week. A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Mishra permitted counsel Sateesh Galla to withdraw the petition as "it had become infructous" in view of Reddy's victory in the motion moved by...
09:30 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh survived the no-confidence motion moved against it by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday night. Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had been campaigning hard against the government. His camp had claimed that not less than 22 MLAs were willing to vote against the government even at the risk of being disqualified. Jagan had appeared to be keen on embarrassing the government and wanted...
07:08 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Hyderabad: The debate on the no-confidence motion in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Monday witnessed an acrimonious verbal duel between Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu who said the government has become a "big joke" in the public. Naidu initiated the debate on the no-trust motion, moved by his Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and started listing out the "failures" of the Congress government...
02:45 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Hyderabad: The winter session of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly began on a stormy note on Thursday with the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) stalling the proceedings, forcing the speaker to adjourn the house. It was trouble right from the word go as TDP members rushed to the speaker's podium seeking an assurance that he would take up the no-confidence motion moved by the party. As soon as the five-day...
10:42 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Hyderabad: With the movement for Telangana gathering steam, 32 MLAs from the region belonging to main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Wednesday resigned from the state assembly. It is for the second time that the TDP MLAs have sought to quit their seats in the legislature to press for Telangana statehood after the Speaker rejected their resignations in July. The MLAs handed over their resignations to the Secretary of...
09:29 PM, Sep 28, 2011
Hyderabad: Legislators, who quit in support of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, would meet Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker and Governor on Monday to urge them to accept their resignations. "The MLAs would meet Speaker and also Governor. We will tell the Governor about the attempts to defame late YS Rajasekhara Reddy in the FIR (of CBI over its probe into cases related to Jagan). Though the Governor is not...
10:11 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Hyderabad: Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who inflicted a crushing blow to Congress in the family pocket - borough of Kadapa, now plans to consolidate his support base elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh to take on the ruling party. Jagan seems to have realised that his resounding victory in the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat is merely not good enough to cause any threat to the N Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Congress Government....
04:32 PM, May 16, 2011
Hyderabad: Ruling Congress and main opposition Telugu Desam MLAs came to near blows inside the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Monday after Agriculture Minister YS Vivekananda heckled two TDP MLAs as they held a placard that denigrated supporters of late Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Vivekananda, brother of the late chief minister, rushed towards Telugu Desam Legislature Party deputy leader Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu and tore away the placard that read "YSR...
11:42 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Hyderabad: The desecration and destruction of statues of Telugu luminaries by Telangana protagonists on Tank Bund road caused a furor in Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Friday as irate Telugu Desam Party members stormed the Speaker's podium demanding an immediate discussion on the issue. Proceedings of the House were adjourned twice as Telugu Desam Party members from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions strongly denounced the "vandalism" by separatist elements on Thursday and...
12:07 PM, Mar 11, 2011
Hyderabad: As former Congress MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy continued his hunger strike for the sixth day on Wednesday, demanding government reimbursement of fees paid by economically weak students, legislators loyal to him walked out from both houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature. As many as 21 legislators, a majority of them from the ruling Congress, staged a walkout from the assembly after displaying placards, demanding that the government release funds...
04:31 PM, Feb 23, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned without transacting any business for the third day on Monday as TRS and TDP members from Telangana region raised slogans demanding separate statehood. As soon as the House met for the day, agitated members belonging to these parties raised the issue vociferously and repeatedly stormed the well, ignoring pleas by the Chair to restore order. Spearheading the protest, Telangana Rashtra Samiti members rushed...
03:00 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Many MLAs and MPs resigned over the issue on Thursday. ...
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