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  1. 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....

  2. 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...

  3. A confused Congress in Andhra Pradesh

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    / April 1, 2012 / 3 Comments
    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...

  4. Thirsty Jaya asks Kiran for water

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    / March 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu has gently nudged Andhra Pradesh to release 4 TMC feet (four thousand million cubic feet) of water from the Kandaleru reservoir. This is as per the Krishna water agreement under which AP has to release this water between January and April to Chennai. The agreement gives 12 TMC feet...

  5. 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...

  6. Naidu vs Botsa vs Kiran

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    / February 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live An all-out war seems to be imminent between Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana. The latter made cryptic remarks on Wednesday about Kiran and TDP chief having an understanding over the selection of RTI Commissioners, while MLA R Damodar Reddy, a Kiran...

  7. ‘Kiran not ready for bypolls’

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    / February 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Despite all the bravado of CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, the ruling Congress Party still dreads at the prospect of elections anywhere in the state. As the much-delayed decision on disqualification of MLAs loyal to Jagan gets further postponed, Kiran’s credibility ratings seem to be falling...

  8. Kiran stops DL

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    / February 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Health Minister D L Ravindra Reddy seems to have lost the fire for dissidence even before it started. His war against Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has failed to attract too many admirers within and outside the cabinet. A couple of days after firing salvos...

  9. Kiran’s ‘health’ problems

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    / February 9, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Every health bulletin of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government since the last cabinet expansion has arrived at the same conclusion : `All is not well’. Especially in the health ministry. Dr D L Ravindra Reddy, the health and medical education minister has taken the CM’s decision to bifurcate his ministry and...

  10. Mopidevi, Ravindra not to resign

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    / February 9, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source: AP News Live Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, under cloud over allegations of excise kickbacks, is not resigning. Nor will D L Ravindra Reddy, seething with discontent over chopping off his ministerial wings, will put in papers, as was widely reported in the press. Both the Ministers apparently changed their...