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  1. ‘Gali paid Rs 500 cr to Cong in 2009′

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Gali Janardhana Reddy, who is presently in the custody of CBI in Bangalore, allegedly told his interrogators that he had paid Rs 500 cr to the then Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for covering the 2009 Assembly and Parliament elections. Reddy also told the...

  2. Lessons from Lucknow for Hyderabad

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    / March 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In 2009, I was at an election meeting in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, waiting for Rahul Gandhi to arrive when I found Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Man Friday grumbling. Let us call him Mr X here. Mr X started talking about how meetings like these were a waste of YSR’s...

  3. CPI ties up with TRS, dumps TDP

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    / March 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live As was widely expected, CPI has decided to throw its weight, for whatever it is worth, behind TRS in the coming by-polls. A powerful section from Telangana within CPI has been advocating an alliance with TRS for sometime now, and this section strongly feels that the...

  4. Chandrababu relieved as CBI case dismissed

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    / February 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source: AP News Live In a major relief to Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, comprising Justice Rohini and Justice Asuthosh Mohata, on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by YSR Congress leader Vijayamma against Chandrababu Naidu and others for CBI inquiry...

  5. Lagadapati vs Sakshi

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    / February 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal wants to file a defamation suit against Sakshi daily. The strange thing is that his own brother Lagadapati Sridhar had  invested in the paper by buying shares worth Rs 50 crores! Rajagopal was furious that Sakshi was indulging in scurrilous writings against...

  6. What is there in a statue?

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    / January 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch In a country where statues and temples are regarded as incarnations of leaders and deities, Andhra Pradesh would set a milestone. Interestingly, there are more statues of Dr B R Ambedkar than Mahatma Gandhi in the state. Religious and community leaders like Agrasen and Vangaveeti Ranga have...

  7. We, the people of India

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    / January 10, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir School students brought out of their classrooms in Vaddiaram village of Medak district to greet Jaganmohan Reddy as he travelled to Armoor in Nizamabad district to sit on a 48-hour long fast for the cause of farmers. But why school children to lend strength to what is...

  8. I hope kanoon ke haath lambe hote hai

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    / September 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
    “Satyamave Jayate” is what Gali Janardhana Reddy said before entering the gaudy green gate of Chanchalguda Prison in Hyderabad on Monday evening. He would hope otherwise because if truth does prevail, the prison may well end up becoming a home away from home for him for a long time. The...

  9. Vilifying a dead man, how noble is that?

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    / September 6, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By M S Hussain   As part of my professional duties, I had occasion to meet with Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy several times, both when he was leader of the Opposition and later as chief minister from 2004 through 2009. I found him to be an amiable gentleman, well-read with a quick-wit and a...

  10. The Inheritance of Loss for Jagan?

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    / August 22, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   This is what the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) naming Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as Accused number 1, says on page 27. “The above acts reveal the commission of cognizable offences of Criminal Conspiracy, Cheating, Criminal Breach of Trust, Falsification of...

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