Author: Syed Amin Jafri

The new Congress government in Andhra Pradesh would soon formulate a bill providing for five per cent reservation for minorities in government jobs and educational institutions. Andhra Pradesh Minister for Minorities Welfare Mohammad Fareeduddin made the announcement in the state assembly during Question Hour. Asserting that the government was committed to provide reservation for minorities, […]

The World Bank has assured continued assistance to Andhra Pradesh in various sectors though it is reportedly upset with the new government’s decision on supplying free power to farmers. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy told newsmen this assurance came during a meeting with World Bank officials on Saturday. “No doubt, they are unhappy […]

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked public sector banks to provide employment to at least one family member of those farmers who have committed suicide because they were unable to repay their farm loans. Addressing the affected families at Somayajulapalle village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, the prime minister announced an assistance […]

The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday announced several measures for alleviating the problems of the farmers. The measures coincide with the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the state. In his address soon after being sworn in as chief minister on May 14, Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy made announcements to fulfill the party’s […]

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 […]