1. Vayalar Ravi the new Congress Doc in AP

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

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    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...
  3. Is Jagan a Reddy or not?

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    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....
  4. Congress’ Hamletian dilemma in Andhra Pradesh

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    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...
  5. Who runs Andhra Pradesh? Hic !

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    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...
  6. KCR to go the Chiranjeevi way?

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    Source : AP News Live K Chandrasekhar Rao is preparing to go the Chiranjeevi way. Reliable sources confirm that KCR has in principle agreed to merge Telangana Rashtra Samithi with Congress Party. KCR’s offer was made through a mediator to Congress high command during his recent stay in the national...
  7. A confused Congress in Andhra Pradesh

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    After the last round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress drew a blank, a senior non-Congress leader from the state was asked by a member of the Congress High command in Delhi, what he thought of the future of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. “Only the final rites...
  8. Suicides, unfortunately a numbers game

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    The unfortunate spectre of suicides for the sake of a separate Telangana state returned to haunt India this week. Telangana agitators hoped the Centre would sit up and take note of young lives taking the extreme step, overwhelmed by emotion. But three deaths on Saturday went unnoticed as the media...
  9. `Land’ing in Wakf scam

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    The controversial report on the Wakf board scam will be tabled in the Karnataka Assembly. Chief minister Sadananda Gowda has said he will take action and retrieve all land that was acquired by private players. Politically, the report may help the ruling BJP in Karnataka as the report apparently names...

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