New Delhi: Filmstar Chiranjeevi on Saturday formally joined the Congress and hailed Rahul Gandhi as the "ray of hope" and future prime minister. Chiranjeevi, who leads the Praja Rajyam Party in Andhra Pradesh, filled up a form seeking primary membership of the Congress and the AICC headquarters in the presence of Gandhi and senior leaders. "I will remain in the Congress for the rest of my life. I will be...
10:31 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Hyderabad: Tirupati MLA K Chiranjeevi and pro-Telangana leader M Kodandaram on Monday extended their support to anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare's fight against corruption. "Whoever fights against corruption should be commended," said Chiranjeevi, who is set to join the Congress on August 20. Though it might practically not be possible to bring the Prime Minister and judiciary under the ambit of Lokpal, there is need for a wider discussion on the...
10:03 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Hyderabad: Actor-turned-politician K Chiranjeevi, who has merged his Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) with the Congress, will take the membership of the ruling party Aug 20. He told reporters here Saturday that he would formally take the membership of the Congress in New Delhi August 20, the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will give him the membership. The formality of PRP's merger with...
02:33 PM, Aug 13, 2011
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HYDERABAD: PRP founder president and actor K Chiranjeevi, who has merged his party with the ruling Congress in February 2011, will take Congress membership at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office in New Delhi on August 20. Other leaders of the PRP will enroll themselves as Congress members at Gandhi Bhavan (state Congress headquarters) here on August 22.Soon after meeting PRP leaders C Ramachandraiah and G Srinivasa Rao on...
11:37 AM, Aug 11, 2011
Hyderabad: A local court today granted conditional bail to G Shirish Bharadwaj, son-in-law of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, who is facing a dowry harassment case. The 13th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (Mahila court) ordered release of Bharadwaj on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 with two sureties of the same amount. The court, however, has directed him to appear before the Hyderabad Police every Sunday till a chargesheet is filed in...
12:39 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Hyderabad: AICC President Sonia Gandhi has invited Praja Rajyam Party President and Tirupati MLA K Chiranjeevi to New Delhi to meet her anytime between August 7 and 10 to formally take primary membership of the Congress party. The PRP has already technically merged with the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh but a public meeting could not be organised as planned to formalise the amalgamation. The current political uncertainty in the...
06:46 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The crisis in Andhra Pradesh has escalated and the ripples are being felt at the Centre as well with the Congress scrambling for cover. TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao - one of the prime crusaders of the Telangana movement - and Vijayshanthi faxed their resignations to Speaker Meira Kumar on Tuesday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Rao is expected to meet the speaker either on Tuesday or Wednesday....
07:05 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Hyderabad: Actor-politician K Chiranjeevi will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi in the next two days. Gandhi's political secretary, Ahmed Patel, has invited Chiranjeevi for a meeting with her. The Congress High Command has reportedly decided to use Chiranjeevi as a star campaigner in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections. Chiranjeevi, a superstar of Telugu film industry, commands a good fan-following in neighbouring Tamil Nadu as well. Chiranjeevi is...
02:14 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Hyderabad: The city police have launched an investigation into the case of alleged dowry harassment filed by actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's daughter Srija against her husband and mother-in-law. No arrests have been made in the case so far, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. "We are investigating the matter. So far, no one has been taken into custody," Detective Department's Deputy Commissioner of Police J Satyanarayana told. Srija had, in her...
11:48 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Hyderabad: City police on Tuesday registered a case against actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's son-in-law G Shirish Bharadwaj whose wife Srija has alleged harassment by her husband for dowry. Based on a complaint by Srija that she was allegedly being harassed for dowry by her husband, the Central Crime Station (CCS), a wing of Hyderabad Police, has registered a case against Shirish, a senior police officer said. "The complainant (Srija) alleged that she...
01:39 PM, Mar 15, 2011
PRP Chief Chiranjeevi has agreed on a merger with Congress in Andhra Pradesh after Jagan Mohan Reddy's exit.
01:14 PM, Feb 08, 2011
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A huge laminated poster of Andhra Pradesh's favourite megastar Chiranjeevi stares back at me from the corner of a friend's room. The friend, also now ...
05:20 PM, Feb 07, 2011
New Delhi: Immediately after announcing his party's merger with Congress, Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on one of the icons of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekhara Reddy, saying corruption was at its worst in the state during his regime. He also said the Congress has always been quick in taking action against its corrupt members be it Adarsh housing case or Commonwealth or...
09:43 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Hyderabad: BJP in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday termed actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's announcement of merging his Praja Rajyam Party with Congress as an "opportunist politics." Chiranjeevi who had floated the party under the slogan of "social justice and welfare of downtrodden" has decided to merge with Congress - a party which never worked for these causes, BJP state Party Chief G Kishan Reddy told PTI. "It is a 'U' turn for Chiranjeevi...
09:35 PM, Feb 06, 2011
New Delhi: Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) Chief Chiranjeevi decided to merge with the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. He met Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the capital and made the announcement on Sunday. Law Minister and Congress leader Veerappa Moily said that the merger will strengthen the Congress party in the state. Chiranjeevi said that the merger is unconditional. "Whatever I do is for the betterment of the people. It is...
05:20 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Hyderabad: Congress looks all set to add some star power in Andhra Pradesh to tackle the 'Jagan' issue. Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) chief Chiranjeevi is in the capital on Sunday to meet UPA chief Sonia Gandhi to discuss a possible merger. The much talked-about alliance now seems a possibility. The Congress in the state has been weakened by the Telangana issue and MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of the late...
08:36 AM, Feb 06, 2011
Hyderabad: Popular Telugu film director EVV Satyanarayana, known for his comedy films, died of cardiac arrest in Hyderabad late on Friday night, family members said. He was 53 and is survived by wife and two sons. Satyanarayana, who directed Amitabh Bachchan-starrer 'Suryavansh' (Hindi), died of heart attack at a private hospital. He had been suffering from cancer for the last two years and was undergoing treatment but the cardiac attack...
02:31 PM, Jan 22, 2011
New Delhi: Praja Rajyam Party of Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi is happy with the options listed by BN Srikrishna Committee report. "We have been advocating that a united Andhra Pradesh will be good for the development of the state. I am very happy that the commission travelled extensively in Andhra Pradesh, met all the concerned people before preparing this report," said Praja Rajyam Party leader Ramachandraiah. Ramachandraiah made the statement after...
01:29 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Andhra Pradesh's new Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed his loyalty to the Gandhi family by saying that we wants to ensure that Congress wins most of the Lok Sabha seats in the state,. "I want to see YSR's wish fullfilled of winning 41 out of 42 seats in Andhra Pradesh and see Rahul Gandhi as prime minister," said Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday. But within hours of his ...
12:18 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Sonia Gandhi requested Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) chief Chiranjeevi to withdraw from the race for RS elections. ...
12:25 PM, May 30, 2010
