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  1. Chiru doubts Cong return to power in 2014

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Marriage festivities of his son, actor Ram Charan over, Chiranjeevi donned the role of a politician once again. And fretted and fumed over the Congress performance in the byelections. The party won just 2 of the 18 assembly seats and also lost the Nellore Lok Sabha seat by a huge...

  2. The Byelection Mode

    Posted by pragnya vadam
    / June 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    People across the state in the 12 districts finally had a chance to see the election results and started to articulate their own opinion on the future of Andhra Pradesh. They are expecting some unusual changes to the state in a few more months or perhaps even, weeks. That Jagan...

  3. 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...

  4. Ab aaya hai oonth pahaad key nichey

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    / May 28, 2012 / 3 Comments
    So, it has finally happened, after nine months of low-brow nautanki. The arrest of Jaganmohan Reddy, that is. The arrest was long past due; in fact it was nine months in the making. But better late than never, I am thinkng. But before we move on with this post, here’s...

  5. Question Time CBI for Jagan

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    / May 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is 10:30 am. Jagan is setting out on his election campaign trail in Macherla in Guntur district. It is hot as hell, the mercury hovering around 43 degrees. But that’s not the worry for YSR Congress party leaders and workers. Occupying their mindspace is the thought that in exactly...

  6. DMK to boycott Pudukkottai bypoll

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    / May 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jayalalithaa has formed a committee that virtually consists of her entire cabinet for the Pudukkottai assembly bypoll. She need not have bothered for the DMK and PMK have decided to boycott the June 12 election. Karunanidhi has alleged that the poll date was announced after consultation between AIADMK and some...

  7. How TDP gained in Kovur defeat

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    / March 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live Jagan Mohan Reddy’s party may have won the Kovur by-election, but his fans and followers seem to have lost good money in this prestigious contest. Several YSR Congress Party leaders, activists and admirers and others had reportedly put hundreds of crores of money in betting,...

  8. Over 85 % polling in Piravom in Kerala

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    / March 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
      Kerala certainly showed the way on Saturday when a record 85.6 per cent of the electorate voted in the Piravom Assembly constituency in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The byelection which was caused due to the death of TM Jacob, the food and civil supplies minister in the Oommen Chandy...

  9. Keeping an eye on paid media

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    / March 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
      The next time you report on the winning chances of a candidate and the appeal of a party in any election coverage story, you will come under the purview of ‘paid news’ and the expenditure on the story will get added on to the candidate’s election expenditure.   On...

  10. 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...

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