Payakaraopeta: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy would have to face a jail term of 14 years, if the charges levelled against him were proved in the illegal assets case. Kiran Kumar Reddy was campaigning in Payakaraopeta Assembly segment in Visakhapatnam district on Friday. Addressing a gathering at panchayat office centre, the chief minister made it clear that Jagan was behind the bars as...
03:19 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India is said to have flatly rejected the Andhra Pradesh government's plea to permit it to reduce sales tax on petrol by three per cent to "provide relief to people in view of the recent price hike." With a clear eye on the June 12 by-elections, state Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed officials of the Commercial Taxes Department to obtain permission from the...
01:33 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday said that the national or state Congress has no connection with the investigation into the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. "Everyone is bringing in Central, state government or Sonia Gandhi for political leverage. State government is only confined to maintaining law and order in the state. Previously there have been cases where ministers have...
02:42 PM, May 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Despite ominous signs that there could be further exodus of its MLAs to YSR Congress of Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh is not ready to accept that its government faced a possible threat in the near future. "There is no threat to the Congress government and it will last its full term, no matter who stays in the party or leaves it and...
09:46 PM, May 26, 2012
HYDERABAD: Abaddhalakoru (liar), rowdy palana (regime of rowdies), avineeti chakravarti (emperor of corruption), bandipotu dongalu (dacoits)... If you think these are the titles of Tollywood flicks, you are mistaken. These are the choicest epithets being flung by politicians against rivals in the ongoing bypoll campaign.Leading the rhetorical fest is chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has taken to attacking Jagan Mohan Reddy without mincing words: backstabber and liar are his...
09:01 AM, May 22, 2012
Guntur: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday criticised the YSR Congress party chief and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy by calling him an "opportunist". Speaking at a function here, the chief minister, who was joined by state Congress Chief Botsa Satyanarayana in the attack against Jagan, alleged that the Kadapa MP had amassed wealth by misusing the powers of his late father and former AP chief...
02:40 AM, May 20, 2012
Hyderabad: Denied permission to address the media at the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) office, former Andhra Pradesh minister P Shankar Rao on Friday lodged a police complaint against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for violating provisions of the the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The senior legislator, who has been publicly attacking the chief minister, termed him anti-Dalit. Shankar Rao, who is the member of...
05:40 PM, May 11, 2012
HYDERABAD: In Mahbubnagar district to push the Rytu Chaitanya Yatras on Thursday, chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy did the usual farmer-friendly things, such as pumping farmers hands and riding bullock carts. But part of his mind seemed to be trained on the upcoming challenge of winning 18 crucial byelections.Amid the rythu anna spiel he spewed, he also outlined his strategy to win those seats without a sweat. It might be...
11:32 AM, May 11, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy has hit out at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying that it has been hounding him with no proof. Calling the freezing of the Sakshi TV accounts undemocratic, Jagan said, "After nine months of probe, the CBI has got nothing." "I'm not fighting the Congress, it's the Congress that is hitting me all out. The Congress has formed a cartel along with Chandrababu...
07:41 AM, May 10, 2012
SRIKAKULAM/RAJAHMUNDRY: Departing from his usual style, chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy for the first time let go at two of his tormentors, one insider and another outsider.While drawing the Lakshman Rekha for health minister D L Ravindra Reddy, the chief minister launched a vehement attack on the Kadapa MP during a byelection campaign rally at Draksharamam in East Godavari district. Claiming to be staggered by Jagans wealth, amassed by blindsiding...
11:28 AM, May 08, 2012
VISAKHAPATNAM/HYDERABAD: The war of words between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and health minister DL Ravindra Reddy refuses to die down even as Delhi keeps advising them to bury the hatchet and work as a team to lead the party to victory in the ensuing byelections.He (Ravindra Reddy) does not have any work and so do you (media). You had better ask Ravindra Reddy why he has said so...
11:39 AM, May 07, 2012
HYDERABAD: Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao on Sunday said he too, like the health minister DL Ravindra Reddy, may have to come to a conclusion that chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was Jagan Mohan Reddy's covert unless he sheds his silence on the Kadapa MP."Ravindra Reddy's point was that the chief minister was not targeting Jagan even though he was attacking the Congress president Sonia Gandhi. It is time...
11:26 AM, May 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday expressed confidence that Congress party would put up a good show in next month's by-polls to one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. "Our endeavour is to win the one Lok Sabha and the 18 Assembly segments," he told reporters in Visakhapatnam. He would be campaigning in Srikakulam, East and West Godavari districts for three days in support of...
10:02 PM, May 06, 2012
HYDERABAD: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy returned to Hyderabad with mixed feelings after meeting party president Sonia Gandhi for over half an hour exclusively at her residence in Delhi on Tuesday evening.She reportedly told him that ups and downs are common in public life and he should not get upset over such developments. Confidantes say Kiran Reddy is trying to guess what she meant.The chief minister reportedly took it...
10:47 AM, May 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Congress high command's emissaries, who were recently in Hyderabad to take stock of the party's position in Andhra Pradesh, was conveyed by state leaders that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy should be removed forthwith if the ruling party wants to stem its political slide. Be it Ghulam Nabi Azad, Krishna Murthy or Vayalar Ravi, who were deputed by the party high command to study the party affairs...
02:12 AM, Apr 20, 2012
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