Month: April 2004

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has promised three per cent reservations for Muslims in public jobs and educational institutions. He made the announcement in the backdrop of indications that Muslim voters were drifting away from TDP and gravitating towards the Congress all over the state. Naidu attended a […]

EThe use of technology to add punch to poll campaigns has never been so extensive in Andhra Pradesh as it is today. They are armed with SMS messages and ring tones on potential voters’ mobile phones, short films packed with catchy slogans and specially designed campaign vehicles fitted with projectors, television sets and CDs for […]

As elections draw nearer in Andhra Pradesh, questions are raised whether Chandrababu Naidu can achieve an electoral hat-trick and repeat his successful experiment of the 1999 polls riding on development agenda. The debate on these questions acquires a feverish pitch as Naidu, the longest-serving Chief Minister in the state, single-handedly guides his Telugu Desam Party […]