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  1. Jagan accuses Congress, TDP of match-fixing

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    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Jaganmohan Reddy has accused the TDP and Congress of entering into an understanding over the 18 seats to which by-polls are due in the next few months. The YSR Congress Chief has given specific details this time. Speaking at Guntur Odarpu Yatra, Jagan alleged that...

  2. Chiranjeevi’s mega worries

    Posted by A. Saye Sekhar
    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Since Chiranjeevi needs a script writer and a director to make him say what exactly he wants to, the baton of expressing anguish and confusion over the recent merger of his small political formation into the oceanic Congress was passed on to his trusted lieutenant, C Ramachandraiah, the minister for...

  3. The art of maintaining two political accounts

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    / March 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Politicians are usually the best psephologists. Never mind what they say on record, before the election results come in. Today if you speak to any politician in Andhra Pradesh, irrespective of the region, community and party he comes from, he indulges in not-so-subtle Jagan bhajan. Not that you need him...

  4. 7 down, 17 to go in Andhra Pradesh

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    / March 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    For a party that did not even have a candidate initially to winning the seat by 1800 votes is certainly an achievement. By winning an assembly seat which forms part of K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP has punctured the TRS claim of being the sole spokesperson...

  5. Chandrababu Naidu’s ‘rights’

    Posted by A. Saye Sekhar
    / March 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Nara Chandrababu Naidu thundered in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that he did not have to collude or connive with the Congress. How true? It is the other way round. It is the Congress which needs to beseech him for help. And also to demonstrate its gratitude towards...

  6. Congress risks, TDP rewards

    Posted by A. Saye Sekhar
    / March 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    I don’t know if Palvai Govardhan Reddy remembers me or atleast an animated discussion with me at a newspaper office in 1994. Palvai, the also-ran type politico from Nalgonda district, is a loudmouth. Striking at the mighty and powerful within the Andhra Pradesh Congress has always been his claim to...

  7. All eyes on Kovur

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    / March 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Earlier this week, I was speaking to a senior leader of Telugu Desam who had just returned to Hyderabad after campaigning in Kovur in Nellore district for ten days for his party candidate S Chandramohan Reddy. “How does it look for you?” I asked. “Prasanna Kumar Reddy (who won on...

  8. `The Burning Train’ starring Mamata Banerjee

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    / March 15, 2012 / 5 Comments
    The Sun rises in the East. Dinesh Trivedi discovered yesterday that `his sun’ also set in the East. Over one hundred years after the capital of India shifted from Kolkata (then Calcutta) to Delhi, Mamata Banerjee’s Indianised version of the East India Company is threatening to gain control once again....

  9. Anam wears Chiru mask

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    / March 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live You can always count on MLA and Nellore strongman Anam Vivekananda Reddy to make politics colorful. And he is giving his brand of comic touch to the poll campaign in the hot coastal weather. Standing atop the vehicle and waving to the crows is what...

  10. TRS fishing in troubled waters

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The proposal of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) to field Kesava Rao as a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections is just an empty balloon being floated by K Chandrasekhar Rao to put pressure on the Congress that it renominate Kesava Rao for another term. Six seats are falling vacant...

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