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  1. YSRC vs CBI : No winners in this match

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    / June 29, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The developments concerning the CBI Joint Director V V Lakshminarayana and the leakage of his Call Data Records (CDR) are most unfortunate. As an officer, he has immense credibility in neutral circles and is seen as a person who is actively pursuing the case. This episode has cast shadows and...

  2. 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,...

  3. The political fallout of Jagan’s arrest

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    / May 27, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The last four hours or so have been like a suspense thriller ever since news filtered out that Jaganmohan Reddy will be arrested today. It is no surprise that he eventually has been arrested given the fact that he is accused number 1 in the disproportionate assets case, particularly when...

  4. Congress messes up, Jagan gains

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    / May 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The move by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to accuse the Congress-Telugu Desam of conspiring to arrest him and then foment trouble in Andhra Pradesh and use that as a pretext to postpone the byelections scheduled for June 12, is clever political strategy. What he has done is to create a...

  5. Congress’ Hamletian dilemma in Andhra Pradesh

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    / April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Congress is like the Prince of Denmark in Andhra Pradesh. Its Hamletian dilemma relates to whether it should praise the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy or disown him completely as a “corrupt” chief minister. On one hand, the CBI has mentioned YSR by name as `the perpetrator of the...

  6. 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...

  7. Creating space for the lotus in Telangana

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    / January 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By Prof K Nageshwar Now the BJP begins the Telangana struggle Yatra. The party claims it will galvanize the forces for the cause of Telangana state. The basic question at the outset is why should a party that is part of Telangana Joint Action Committee embark upon  a unilateral yatra....

  8. Why Prez rule will be a bad idea

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    / October 9, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Prof K Nageshwar   For the last four days, ever since Andhra Pradesh governor E S L Narasimhan was summoned to New Delhi to submit his report on the situation in the state, Hyderabad was agog with rumors about whether it is a precursor to imposition of President’s rule....

  9. Lessons for Telangana from Anna Hazare

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    / August 21, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Prof K Nageshwar   The more I see the movement led by Anna Hazare, the more I am convinced that there are important lessons in it for the Telangana movement in Andhra Pradesh. It is very evident that the civil society initiative is very high in the Anna-led movement...

  10. Not resigned to their fate

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    / July 25, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Prof K Nageshwar With Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker Nadlenda Manohar rejecting the resignations of the 101 Telangana MLAs, it is back to square one. But a second round of resignations has begun with the TRS MLAs taking the lead and the Telugu Desam MLAs mulling moving court against the...

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