Vijayawada: CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in Vijayawada on Sunday that the UPA government should reveal the names of those involved in the coal scam. "The government should reveal the names of the people involved in the coalgate scam. The resignation of either Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Law minister Ashwani Kumar would not serve any purpose unless names of the people involved in it come out," Yechury said.
He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the party's local unit. He said the government should place all the facts before the Parliament. "The CPM will continue to exert pressure on he government until all the facts are revealed," he said. When asked on the possibility of Third Front, he said talks were on with like-minded parties and it would take some time to take a final call on it.
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12:14 AM, Apr 29, 2013
How has Andhra Pradesh responded to the bandh call over power tariff hike? Political analyst & independent member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council K Nageshwar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. People put the politicians to power and have got to pay a high price for it? Is it maladministration or sheer rational pricing which makes the government compelled to hike the power tariff. Asked by:...
05:38 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Opposition parties have begun a statewide in Andhra Pradesh to protest against the power tariff hike. Road traffic is likely to be affected in Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada but autos and buses are plying in Hyderabad. Banks will also remain open in Hyderabad but schools and clleges have declared a holiday. The Left sponsored shutdown has been supported by the main opposition the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the YSR...
01:36 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh have called for a statewide bandh on Tuesday even after the government provided some relief from the steep hike in electricity prices. The shutdown has been supported by the main opposition, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the YSR Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party, however, has called for a separate strike. Meanwhile, police have shifted YSR Congress leaders, who have been on an indefinite...
07:56 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh have decided to go ahead with their statewide shutdown on April 9 despite the government providing some relief from the steep hike in electricity tariff announced last week. Bowing to pressure from the opposition and also a section of its own leaders, the Congress government exempted consumers using 200 units or less a month from the tariff hike. However, the latest relief from the...
12:24 PM, Apr 05, 2013
In a midnight crackdown, Hyderabad police forcibly shifted fasting leaders of the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to a state-run hospital after their condition deteriorated. Policemen lifted 29 TDP legislators into waiting vehicles and shifted them to Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), where they were forcibly given medical aid. ...
11:21 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Opposition Telugu Desam Party on Thursday night submitted petitions to Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar seeking disqualification of nine of its MLAs for defying the party line. ...
03:06 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday drew flak the Opposition, which demanded that he immediately step down from his post owning responsibility for twin bomb blasts that claimed 16 lives on Thursday. Telugu Desam Party MP T Devender Goud and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao came down heavily on the government stating that it ignored the Centre's warning on terror strikes....
09:26 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Why the Congress is dragging its feet on Telangana. CNN-IBN's deputy bureau chief Pallavi Ghosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
11:38 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA Suddala Devaiah has been remanded to judicial custody till January 22, by a local court in Karimnagar on Wednesday, for allegedly laying siege to the office of Transco's Superintending Engineer (SE) in Karimnagar town. ...
02:44 AM, Jan 10, 2013
A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Wednesday extended till January 17 the judicial remand of YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy and other accused in connection with the alleged disproportionate assets case. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Telugu people living not just in Andhra Pradesh, but all across the world await the outcome of the all-party meeting convened by the Union Home Ministry on Friday in New Delhi on the Telangana statehood issue, though political parties themselves are cynical about its outcome. ...
06:08 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Protests in all three regions of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday marked the third anniversary of the central government's announcement to initiate the process of forming a separate state of Telangana. While parties fighting for a Telangana state took out rallies in Hyderabad and nine other districts of the region, demanding the central government fulfill its word, some groups in parts of Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and Andhra regions) observed a black...
09:27 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Hyderabad: One of three Rajya Sabha members of the Telugu Desam Party, who were absent during the vote on the foreign direct investment bill in the upper house of Parliament, on Sunday sent his resignation to party president N Chandrababu Naidu. Y Sujana Chowdary said he has sent his resignation from the Rajya Sabha membership to Naidu. The industrialist-politician said the party president had not asked him to quit but...
10:09 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Hyderabad: The central government's decision to convene an all-party meeting on Telangana issue later in December has triggered war of words between the two major political parties in Andhra Pradesh with the Congress rejecting the TDP's demand to spell out its stand. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday asked the ruling Congress to spell out its stand before the all-party meeting convened by union Home Minister Sushil...
04:48 AM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: As a revolt appeared to be brewing among Congress MPs from Telangana ahead of voting on FDI in retail issue, the Government has convened on December 28 a meeting of political parties of Andhra Pradesh on separate statehood issue. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that he has given the assurance to MPs from the Telangana region who met him earlier in the day. The move appears to...
04:50 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Tension prevailed in Gollapalem village in Garividi mandal of Vizianagaram district following a clash between Telugu Desam and Congress workers in which 15 members from both sides were injured on Sunday morning. A small altercation at a tea shop allegedly set off the clash in the village, police said. Eight TDP men and seven Congress workers sustained injuries in the incident, police said adding that they were admitted to...
02:12 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Hyderabad: The last rites of Telugu Desam Party's senior leader and former central minister K Yerran Naidu, who died in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district early on Friday, will be performed on Saturday. A pall of gloom descended on Srikakulam, the native district of Naidu. Hundreds of mourners gathered at his village Nimmada, about 30 km from Srikakulam town. Naidu's family decided to postpone the cremation to...
10:48 AM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader K Yerran Naidu died in a car accident on Thursday night. Naidu was returning after an event in Vizag when his car hit a petrol tanker near Ranasthalam in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. Naidu was immediately taken to a local hospital, where the doctors declared him dead at 3.30 am on Friday morning. Naidu was 55. The mishap took place about...
06:38 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) demanded on Tuesday, that the Andhra Pradesh government immediately publicise Chanchalguda prison's closed circuit TV (CCTV) footage to establish who met whom and how many times. "We have written a letter to the Director General of Police three days ago requesting him to prevent use of cellular phones in the prison by Jagan Mohan Reddy." But there was no response. The person who looted...
02:58 AM, Oct 24, 2012
