Author: Syed Amin Jafri

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 […]

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 […]

Actor Nandamuri Balakrishna, son of N T Rama Rao, the late matinee idol and Telugu Desam Party founder, is all set to enter politics on the eve of the Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh assembly elections. The actor announced this in an interview to a Telugu news channel, TV 9, on Wednesday following the success […]

The final electoral rolls in Andhra Pradesh are out and the Election Commission has deleted 64 lakh names. “In every district, thousands of names have been deleted,” EC sources said. With the latest deletion, the voters’ percentage has fallen to nearly 64 per cent, from the earlier 71 per cent, of the state’s population. The […]

Former Telugu Desam Party legislator Kotagiri Hanumantha Rao has been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 2,500 for abusing a dalit. Rao (66) is a four-term legislator from Nuzvid. Machilipatnam First Additional District Sessions Judge T Doraswami handed down the sentence on Wednesday in connection with a private complaint under the Scheduled […]

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday stayed a lower court’s order directing the Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe allegations of corruption against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the procurement of liquor from private distilleries during 1997-2000. Principal Special Judge for Special Police Establishment and Anti-Corruption Bureau Cases S Anantasayana Prasad had on Friday admitted […]