Capital city no longer an issue in Andhra Pradesh
Ten years after its bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh still does not have a capital. But what’s more surprising is that the lack of capital has even ceased to be an issue in this election.
Ten years after its bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh still does not have a capital. But what’s more surprising is that the lack of capital has even ceased to be an issue in this election.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu has promised to conduct a caste census in the state in order to counter the YSRCP which had already announced to do so just a couple of months before the elections were declared.
A special puja was organised at Belur Math as devotees and well-wishers paid their respects to Swami Smaranananda Maharaj, president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, who passed away recently in Kolkata.
While former Union minister MM Pallam Raju will be fielded from Kakinada, former APCC chief Gidugu Rudra Raju will contest from Rajahmundry.
Besides this, the poll panel also appointed Special Expenditure Observers in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth over Rs 11,300 crore in Telangana
Andhra Pradesh government was asked that the Visakhapatnam Metro project proposal might be posed to other bilateral/ multilateral agencies for loan assistance.
Although the TDP tried to project the poll results as a referendum against YSRCP, the MLC elections also to a great extent require electoral strategising.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu wrote a letter to the ECI blaming Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for the delay in issuing the declaration certificate.
Three of the suspended MLAs were suspended for the entire Budget session while the rest were suspended for the day.