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  1. We are like that only, Ms Kiran Bedi

    Posted by
    / June 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Let me begin with apologising to Kiran Bedi. We the corrupt people of Andhra Pradesh have elected 17 MLAs and one MP belonging to two parties that you perhaps see as “corrupt”. A majority of them to the YSR Congress, whose leader Jaganmohan Reddy is in judicial custody in a...

  2. Race for President to change PM?

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    / June 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sometime in May, when this important ally of the Congress in the UPA was called by Sonia Gandhi for discussions on the Presidential election, he decided to be candid. “Ma’m, we will support whoever you decide to nominate for the President. But I have a request to make. Please change...

  3. Why is Jagan a leader? Coz he has the mike !

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    / June 13, 2012 / 4 Comments
    Counting of the votes in the by-elections to the 18 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat (Nellore) will take place on June 15, and the results are expected by late afteroon. Some compromised-media outlets have claimed, based on manipulated data, that Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress Party...

  4. A Jagan heat wave on the Andhra coast

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    / June 12, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By the time polling ended at 5 pm today, it was interesting to see how the Congress and the Telugu Desam were speaking in one language. To explain why the majority of the seats look set to go into Jaganmohan Reddy’s pocket. While senior Congress MLA Anam Vivekananda Reddy described...

  5. Sowing the seeds of democracy in Andhra Pradesh

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    / June 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Andhra Pradesh’s top cop Dinesh Reddy is candid enough to admit that the magnitude of the unaccounted for money seized during the campaign period in these byelections has shocked him. While the Andhra Pradesh police confiscated some 30 crores worth of cash and jewellery, the Election Commission through its officers...

  6. Money, smile aur dhoka

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    / June 10, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Anyone feeling depressed that the rupee is going down should see the bundles of cash seized by the authorities during the current round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh. A total of 54 crore rupees (in cash and jewellery) – all unaccounted for – has been confiscated. Compare this with 2009...

  7. Democracy and the delusions of grandeur

    Posted by Deepak Shravan
    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Democracy, in India, is more of an illusion, a hologram of our minds. More than being a mere illusion, it is a cover for crime, a safe alias. Like Bin Laden walking unscathed because he’s wearing a Mahatma Gandhi tee shirt. Right from colleges; where they think they can decide...

  8. Will Brand Andhra Pradesh be a casualty?

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    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    As another minister in Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet, Information Technology minister Ponnala Laxmaiah is interrogated by the CBI, uncomfortable questions are being raised about the impact of this on Brand Andhra Pradesh. After all, so many senior ministers being summoned for interrogation and one of them, Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana,...

  9. Use chilli powder on police, says CPM leader

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is taking its fascination for the colour red a bit too far. Kerala CPI(M) state committee member M V Jayarajan asked party workers to store water mixed with chilli powder to counter police if they continued to “harass” them under the pretext of probe. “CPI-M activists should store water...

  10. Jagan wants to `campaign’ from jail

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Even as he is being interrogated in CBI custody, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has moved a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High court seeking permission to be allowed to use print and electronic media for campaigning. The Director General of Prisons has been made a respondent in the case. This...

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