Hyderabad: Taking exception to Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker N Manohar rejecting en masse resignations of MLAs from Telangana, Telugu Desam legislators from the region on Sunday said they are ready to put in their papers again. "The Speaker has rejected our resignations under the influence of the Centre. We condemn this rejection of resignations. We will continue our fight till Telangana is achieved," senior TDP MLA from Telangana M Narasimhulu...
07:17 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu has lashed out at the Centre for pushing Andhra Pradesh into turmoil by dragging its feet on the contentious statehood demand. He also hinted at the possibility of the state facing mid-term elections because of the ongoing political uncertainty. "Chaos is reigning in the state...there is a lot of political uncertainty. The Government of India is to be blamed for this," Chandrababu...
02:57 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday issued notices to 20 companies which invested in entities owned by YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy. A senior CBI officer said tonight that "notices have been issued to 20 investment companies and not Jaganmohan." He, however, declined to give any further details about the notices. Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to submit within...
07:59 AM, Jul 17, 2011
Hyderabad: Rail traffic in Telangana region was badly affected on Thursday as supporters of separate statehood demand, disrupted trains across the region since morning. Raising pro-Telangana slogans, the activists of TRS, BJP, TDP and others squatted on the railway tracks at various places in the region. "We demand that the Centre immediately announce formation of Telangana state with a time-frame. We believe the Centre has started moving by holding some...
01:33 PM, Jul 14, 2011
Hyderabad: A day after the MLAs from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh resigned en masse, the crisis continues to simmer. Even as the ground situation remained tense on Tuesday, two MPs of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have submitted their resignation letters to the Lok Sabha Speaker in New Delhi. The Osmania University faced violent scenes on Tuesday, but before the situation got out of hand, the police brought...
09:29 PM, Jul 05, 2011
New Delhi: Joining the bandwagon of those resigning, two TDP MPs from Telangana region on Tuesday quit from the Lok Sabha in protest against delay in formation of a separate state and targeted Home Minister P Chidambaram for being "totally responsible" for the present situation. Nama Nageswara Rao, the TDP Parliamentary Party leader, and Ramesh Rathod met Speaker Meira Kumar here and tendered their resignation. TDP has six members in...
05:36 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Hyderabad: Following a masse resignation of Congress and TDP MLAs from Telangana region, TRS MLAs on Tuesday decided to resign from their posts, mounting pressure on the Centre on the issue of formation of the separate state. "All the TRS MLAs would submit their resignations on Tuesday, TRS MLA and party president K Chandrasekhar Rao's son KT Rama Rao told PTI. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has 11 MLAs in...
03:12 PM, Jul 05, 2011
New Delhi: With all the resignations, what does it mean for the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh. Here's the number game. In the 294 member Andhra Pradesh assembly, the Congress along with the Praja Rajyam Party has a combined strength of 173. The Telugu Desam Party has 90 members. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti has 11 and others make up 20. On Monday, 35 MLAs of the Congress and 37 from...
09:32 AM, Jul 05, 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: The Congress is back to battling a political crisis on the Telanagana statehood issue. In all 35 of the total 53 MLA's that the party has from the region have resigned 11 of them are state ministers. The Congress MLA's on Monday trooped in to the state assembly to submit their resignations, but they had to hand it over to the Deputy Speaker as the Speaker of the Hosue...
09:20 PM, Jul 04, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana statehood issue is on the boil again with all the 33 Telugu Desam Party MLAs and 35 Congress MLAs submitting their resignation to Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday demanding the division of Andhra Pradesh and the formation of a separate state. The Congress MLAs who have resigned also include 11 ministers of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. Four rebel TDP MLAs have also resigned bringing...
11:29 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Hyderabad: Four dissident Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislators from Telangana on Sunday sent their resignations to the Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker even as both ruling Congress and the main opposition TDP legislators from the region are set to resign on Monday seeking a separate state. Congress MPs, state ministers and legislators reiterated that they will not go back on their resignations even as the party leadership continued its efforts for...
04:06 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Hyderabad: Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said the vexed Telangana issue would take longer time to be resolved even as legislators from the region belonging to Congress threatened to quit their posts and those from TDP promised to follow suit seeking a separate state. Any decision on Telangana was not possible without a "national consensus" since the issue was not the problem of Andhra Pradesh alone, he said....
03:03 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Puttaparthi: Late Sathya Sai Baba's nephew RJ Ratnakar was on Saturday questioned by police in connection with the seizure of Rs 35.5 lakh in cash from this Andhra Pradesh town recently. A team lead by the Investigative Officer, who is probing the case, quizzed Ratnakar at his residence in Prashanti Nilayam here, a senior police officer said. Police had on Wednesday issued notices to two trustees of the Sai Central...
07:53 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Hyderabad: The Rs 35-lakh mysterious cash trail at the Sathya Sai Central Trust in Puttaparthi district of Andhra Pradesh has taken a political turn. After refusing to interfere in the trust affairs, the Kiran Reddy government has now asked the trustees to submit a factual report on the financial matters of the body. "In the past, the trust was granted several exemptions. We have now asked the trust for a...
08:29 AM, Jun 25, 2011
The most dreaded 'T' word is back in Andhra Pradesh politics. After a long lull, the movement for Telangana state is once again picking up steam. Unfortunately, there are not many well written books on Telangana in English. Kingshuk Nag, a senior journalist of repute and resident editor of Times of India, Hyderabad edition has filled the vacuum by writing a highly readable book on the movement and the region:...
11:21 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Hyderabad: The election of the Assembly Speaker on Saturday is likely to be a smooth affair, notwithstanding the buzz surrounding the TDP's no-trust notice against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. The YSR Congress, which claims to have the support of a good number of Congress MLAs, dropped enough hints on Friday that it would not work against the ruling party's nominee Nadendla Manohar for the coveted post because "the Speaker...
10:02 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Hyderabad: Seven persons, including a Telugu Desam party (TDP) leader from Kadapa district, were killed and five others injured in two separate accidents in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police said. The TDP leader Venkata Swamy Reddy, along with four others, was travelling in an Innova car from Kadapa to Hyderabad when it collided with a truck on NH-18 between Nandyal-Panyam in Kurnool district at around 1.30 am...
06:31 PM, Jun 01, 2011
Hyderabad: BJP unit of Andhra Pradesh on Monday criticised the reported statement of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu wherein he expressed 'regrets' for his association with erstwhile NDA government. Talking to reporters, Andhra Pradesh BJP chief G Kishan Reddy said Naidu could come to power in Andhra Pradesh in 1999 only because of former Prime Minster Atal Bihari Vajpayee when TDP had allied with BJP. Naidu had sworn in as...
09:42 PM, May 30, 2011
