Month: April 2004

He was the man who got all the Telugu Desam Party legislators firmly behind Chandrababu Naidu when he staged a coup against Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and grabbed the top job in Andhra Pradesh. K Chandrasekhar Rao was a minister in the NTR government, and after the coup became an important member of the Chandrababu cabinet.  Three […]

With exit polls after the first phase showing an anti-incumbency mood, the Telugu Desam Party is redrawing its campaign strategy for the second phase of polling in Andhra Pradesh on April 26, which will cover the south coastal and Rayalaseema regions. The issues of Telangana statehood and Naxal violence, which were important in the first […]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu celebrated a tense 55th birthday on Tuesday even as the volatile Telangana region, facing a strong movement for a separate state, went to the polls along with the three north coastal Andhra districts in the first phase. Naidu’s birthday turned out to be a low-key affair, with some […]

Muslims, the largest minority community in Andhra Pradesh, have apparently decided to punish the ruling Telugu Desam Party for continuing its ‘unholy alliance’ with the ‘communal Bharatiya Janata Party’ despite the Gujarat carnage and for encouraging stepped-up activities of the Sangh Parivar. Muslim voters account for 12 per cent of the total electorate of the […]

Electioneering for the first phase of polls in Andhra Pradesh is over, and it is clear that Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu is facing a tough fight. He is battling an anti-incumbency wave, a combined opposition led by the Congress, the issue of a separate Telangana state as well as […]

Full Name Telugu Desam Party President  Nara Chandrababu Naidu How did the party come into being? After a long and successful reign as the Telugu film industry’s most popular actor Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao — or simply NTR — was keen to do something for the people. He resolved to dedicate his life to social work after […]

The Telugu Desam Party, an ally of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre, on Thursday regretted that the ruling coalition did not consult it before including the Ayodhya issue in the election manifesto. The issue could have been kept out of the manifesto, as the “the focus in the elections is on development”, […]

Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N T Rama Rao’s eldest daughter, Purandareswari, on Wednesday entered the poll fray on a Congress ticket. She will take on film producer D Rama Naidu in the Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh. Purandareswari is trying her electoral fortunes from a party that NTR held […]

N Chandrababu Naidu and his wife N Bhuvaneswari have assets amounting to Rs 20.92 crore. This was disclosed in the mandatory affidavit the Andhra Pradesh chief minister filed along with his nomination papers for the Kuppam assembly constituency. Naidu’s supporters filed two sets of nomination papers on his behalf before Returning Officer L Murali at […]