
Kakinada: Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday demanded the arrest of Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with the disproportionate assets case lodged against him. Naidu said this while addressing a public rally during his one-day election tour at Ramachandrapuram constituency in East Godavari district ahead of the by-polls to 18 assembly segments and one Lok Sabha constituency. The former chief minister...

02:40 AM, May 22, 2012

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has condemned Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's claim that he met him on the Telangana statehood issue. "While making a statement on Telangana in Lok Sabha yesterday, Chidambaram noted that I met him personally (on the issue). This is totally untrue," Chandrababu said in a statement on Thursday. He alleged that the Central government that was supposed to find a permanent solution...

02:44 AM, May 04, 2012

Hyderabad: The TDP on Friday demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government immediately cancel all "irregular" land allotments made to private entities and individuals in the state between 2006 and 2011 in the light of the damning findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Addressing a press conference, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu said the allotted land should be resumed and re-distributed to the farmers, from whom, it was...

04:07 AM, Mar 31, 2012

Hyderabad: Whatever the outcome of the by-elections in six Assembly constituencies in Telangana on March 18 might be, the response to Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu's roadshows is infusing new life into the yellow party. Whether the TDP candidates will win or lose, party cadre is happy on two counts: that TDP supremo is able to move freely in the region and that the large crowds waiting for Naidu...

09:11 AM, Mar 12, 2012

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday claimed he had twice got the opportunity to become Prime Minister but turned them down. "I got the opportunity to become Prime Minister of the country on two occasions (in the 1990s) but I refused. My focus is solely on Andhra Pradesh though we play an effective role at the national level," Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad. The former Chief...

07:39 AM, Feb 22, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by YSR Congress president Y.S. Vijayamma seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged disproportionate assets of former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. The division bench of Justice G. Rohini and Justice Ashutosh Mohunta ruled that the public interest petition of the widow of the late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was not maintainable. The division...

06:03 PM, Feb 16, 2012

Hyderabad: The TRS, the Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) and Congress leaders from the region on Monday voiced stiff opposition to Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's fast to be held at Nizamabad district on Tuesday. "Jagan has an anti-Telangana attitude. He never spoke in support of Telangana. He has tried to evade a clear stance on the separate statehood demand (by saying that the decision on it has...

01:52 AM, Jan 10, 2012

Hyderabad: Amid high drama, police in Hyderabad on Saturday arrested a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator who wanted to hang himself for separate Telangana state, provided Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao also joined him. M Narasimhulu, another party leader E Dayakar Rao and their supporters were arrested at Telangana martyrs' memorial at Gun Park in front of the state assembly. Earlier, holding a long rope in his...

09:35 AM, Dec 25, 2011

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday alleged that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana pledged the Telugu pride in Delhi streets. "Both the leaders are doing Udigam (drudgery) to AICC president Sonia Gandhi," Naidu said. "The Chief Minister is turning to Sonia for each and everything. When farmers sought seed, Kiran Kumar Reddy said he would ask Sonia. The chief...

08:56 AM, Dec 18, 2011

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday night accused the ruling Congress of using the Telangana statehood issue for political gains, and said he was not against statehood to the region in Andhra Pradesh. "The Congress, which is in power both in the state and at the Centre, has to take a decision on the Telangana statehood demand. But it is simply dodging the issue to seek...

05:20 AM, Dec 15, 2011

Hyderabad: In a major relief for Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has stayed a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against him. The High Court, in an interim order, stayed the investigation till further orders. The court was hearing a vacation plea filed by the former Andhra Pradesh chief minister. In November, the CBI had registered a Preliminary Enquiry to probe alleged...

05:07 PM, Dec 13, 2011

HYDERABAD: Vaastu changes to NTR Bhavan, the Telugu Desams headquarters here, have almost been completed nearly three months after they were initiated. The irresistible question now being asked by political watchers is whether the better Vaastu will bail out TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu from the CBI probe and help him regain power in 2014. Party founder NT Ramaraos son and cine actor N Balakrishna was the one who suggested...

10:39 AM, Dec 12, 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: The CBI on Saturday registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to probe alleged disproportionate assets amassed by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and 12 others. This follows a directive of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on November 14. The HC order had come on a petition of YS Vijayamma, widow of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajashekar Reddy. The Supreme Court had on...

11:01 PM, Nov 26, 2011

Hyderabad: In the wake of the recent fuel price hike, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Mamhohan Singh and the UPA government for their "lack of concern for the common man". "For every demand of farmers, the PM has been saying that he did not have a magic wand or that money does not grow on trees. But his government in AP is...

07:58 PM, Nov 05, 2011