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  1. Much ado about a chair

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    / May 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Old timers say the incident reminds them of the unsavoury episode at Hyderabad’s old airport at Begumpet in 1982 when Rajiv Gandhi as Congress general secretary insulted chief minister T Anjaiah. Thirty years on, Ghulam Nabi Azad reportedly sat on chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s chair at the CM’s camp...

  2. Mum is the word

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    / April 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is as if the ruling political establishment has taken a collective decision to press `mute’. The plumbers too have overnight turned an efficient lot and there are no credible leaks from North or South Block on what’s on the Congress mind as far as India’s next president is concerned....

  3. Yes to Narasimhan = No to Telangana?

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    / April 29, 2012 / 2 Comments
    There is however, no question mark in the minds of the Telangana supporter in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that Governor E S L Narasimhan’s term has been renewed, according to those in favour of bifurcation of the state, is a clear indication that the Centre is in no mood to...

  5. I am a Brahmin but he is not a Reddy

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    / April 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “I am a Brahmin and I am the Congress general secretary,” said Rahul Gandhi during a review meeting of the abysmal results in the Uttar Pradesh elections, after the Brahmin lobby reportedly tried to pin the blame the debacle on the party’s aggressive wooing of the minorities and other castes....

  6. Vayalar Ravi the new Congress Doc in AP

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    / April 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Can Vayalar Ravi do what Gulam Nabi Azad could not? That is the question doing the rounds at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad. The Congress high command sent Union Minister and senior leader Ravi on a mission to save the sinking Congress boat in Andhra Pradesh....

  7. A Kiran of hope in the fight against liquor mafia

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    / April 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    If Kiran Kumar Reddy claims he is inspired by Shahrukh Khan in `Baazigar’, I would be inclined to believe him. Because `kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padta hai‘. Kiran lost round one of the battle to Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayana when he was reportedly armtwisted to transfer...

  8. Is Jagan a Reddy or not?

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    / April 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Reddy leaders in the Congress are worried that YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy is being perceived as the leader of the Reddy community. Miffed with this growing perception, the Congress leaders want to impress upon the community that he is not their true representative....

  9. 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...

  10. Who runs Andhra Pradesh? Hic !

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    / April 6, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the liquor scam, K Srinivas Reddy, is at sea. Literally because he is now IG of the Coastal Security Wing. For all practical purposes, worse than a loopline posting, where the 1994 batch IPS officer can spend all day sitting by the...