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Andhra Opposition protests against power tariff hike

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...

ED attachment orders show Cong-TDP nexus: Vijayamma

Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party's Y S Vijayamma on Thursday night alleged that the Congress-TDP nexus has come to the fore with the Enforcement Directorate issuing orders attaching the assets of Sakshi media house. The move came on the eve of YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail petition coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court, she said. "The ED order says that the two companies have...

TDP sceptical of Congress' latest Telangana moves

Hyderabad: Amid the ongoing hullabaloo over Telangana issue at the Congress high command level, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is understood to have predicted that the AICC top brass would not take any decision on the issue. He is believed to be of the opinion that the Congress-led UPA government has no clarity on the states bifurcation. The TDP chief, who came back to Hyderabad on Friday after participating in...

AP: Chandrababu Naidu shuns Adilabad for vastu

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to begin his padayatra from Kosigi in Mahbubnagar district on October 2. According to TDP leader Kambhampati Ramamohana Rao, the padayatra will begin either from Kosigi if Naidu wants to start it from Telangana or from Hindupur in Anantapur district if he chooses to take up the yatra from Seemandhra. It will be either Kosigi or Hindupur, he said. Naidu, who...

Third front possible: Chandrababu Naidu

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Chief N Chandrababu Naidu today said that coming together of the 'third front' was possible, as both Congress and BJP had weakened. Talking to reporters here, Naidu said the partners of UPA were leaving the "unholy alliance" because of the unilateral actions of Congress. "Third front is possible," as Congress was diminishing and the main opposition BJP was not gaining any strength, he added. Meanwhile, the TDP...

Telangana issue again rocks Andhra Pradesh Assembly

Hyderabad: The Telangana issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh state assembly for the second consecutive day on Tuesday with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) stalling the proceedings, demanding a resolution for carving out a separate state. Speaker N. Manohar adjourned the house for half-an-hour amid noisy scenes and heated arguments among members. He later held a meeting with floor leaders of all parties but it failed to end the deadlock as TRS,...

Naidu in Delhi to peddle his BC strategy

Hyderabad: With a BC song on his lips, TDP boss Chandrababu Naidu is in Delhi to serenade leaders of opposition parties. And he appeared to have won a new friend in Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav who said he would love to work with Naidu in future. According to TDP Khammam MP Nama Nageswara Rao, Mulayam said he was with Naidu and would continue to be so in future...

Telangana announcement in 15 days?

Hyderabad: The TRS leadership is confident that the Centre will make an announcement on Telangana in the next 15 days. Party chief K Chandrasekhara Rao's supporters claim that the Congress leadership has dropped subtle hints to him to this effect. But the TDP is very sceptical about the Congress making any statement on state's bifurcation. It is under the impression that the Congress will raise the curtain on another round...

AP: TDP men attack Cong leader, kin

Kurnool: In a fresh incident of political rivalry, TDP activists grievously attacked a Congress leader and his family with knives and axes at Kottaburuju village in Dhone on Wednesday. According to Dhone CI Degala Prasad, village president Ranganatha Reddy (Congress) and TDP leader Emamisa Saheb have political rivalry for some years now and both the parties frequently used to involve in clashes. On Wednesday, the TDP men hatched a plot...

AP: TDP MLAs protest at CM Reddy's office

Hyderabad: In an unprecedented move, the legislators of main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh continued their protest in the chief minister's office late on Monday night. As many as 41 members of state assembly and council were staging a sit-in in the meeting hall of the chief minister's office for over five hours, demanding a firm assurance from him to resolve the electricity shortage. Tension prevailed in...

Cancel allocation of 142 coal blocks: Left, TDP

New Delhi: Left parties and TDP on Monday demanded cancellation of allocation of all the 142 coal blocks and a thorough enquiry into the matter and attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his remarks against CAG. They also termed Singh's statement on the issue as "extremely defensive" and contained "several distortions". CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta went to the extent of accusing the Prime Minister of showing "disrespect" to the Constitution...

AP: TDP, Cong activists clash over leader's arrest

Nalgonda: Mild tension prevailed in Haliya mandal headquarters in Nagarjunasagar constituency on Sunday when Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Congress activists clashed over the arrest of TDP leader Tera Chinnapa Reddy. Police arrested Reddy in Hyderabad on Saturday for allegedly circulating defamatory SMSes against panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy. The TDP Nalgonda district committee had given a bandh call in Nagarjunasagar constituency denouncing the arrest of Chinnapa Reddy on...

Naidu working on strategy to weaken Jagan

Hyderabad: In an apparent warm-up exercise for the 2014 electoral battle, which is expected to be fierce and even ugly, Telugu Desam president N.Chandrababu Naidu has begun cornering YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as he believes that the YSRC Party alone will be his partys main opponent in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Naidu seems to have come to the conclusion that he will have to weaken Jagan considerably to...

TDP hails SC's ruling on plea against Chandrababu

Hyderabad: There was jubilation in TDP office in Hyderabad on Monday afternoon after the Supreme Court struck down a petition filed by YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijaya seeking a probe by CBI and other central agencies in the assets of former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Party leaders and workers offered sweets to Chandrababu at the NTR Bhavan soon after Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and Ibrahim Kalifulla dismissed...

AP: TRS, TDP cosying up again to each other?

Hyderabad: Politics is dynamic and keeps changing. And, in politics there are no permanent enemies or friends. This seems true in the case of the TDP and TRS. The strong rivals in the Telangana region _ Telugu Desam and Telangana Rashtra Samiti _ are preparing to work together if the recent political developments are any indication. Interestingly, both the arch rivals may join hands on the Telangana issue which separated...