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.
Somesh Kumar said the whole issue of bifurcation of Schedule IX institutions is pending because of these court cases filed by the government of Andhra Pradesh.
The talks between the Andhra Pradesh government and leaders of employees' unions on Tuesday failed to end the deadlock over pay revision.
The positivity rate in the state remained at 26.23 per cent, much higher than the national average of around 15 per cent.
The Andhra Pradesh government's ban on 'Chintamani' a Telugu stage play that has been around since 1920, has raised the hackles of the art and culture fraternity in the state. The play scripted by pre-independence era social crusader Kallakuri Narayana Rao that deals with the evils of prostitution, had celebrated its hundredth anniversary only last year.
The truck was on its way from Duvvada in Visakhapatnam district to Narayanpur in Unguturu mandal of West Godavari district.
