NEW DELHI: NDA allies — TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar — should take note of Muslim sentiments and not allow the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 to be passed in Parliament, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said Sunday, stepping up its campaign against the passage of the proposed legislation, which is at present…
VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh govt has transferred to CID a probe into attacks on TDP‘s headquarters and residence of CM N Chandrababu Naidu in 2021 when he was in the opposition. Alleged functionaries of YSRCP, led by then CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, were accused of carrying out the attacks.The case has been handed to CID following…
Ex-Andhra CM Jagan Reddy (File photo) VIJAYAWADA: Former Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy called off a planned visit to Tirupati temple Friday amid heightened tension and protests by several religious organisations which joined governing TDP in demanding that he sign a declaration form for non-Hindus. Jagan also claimed a police notice denying him…
NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday dismissed Jagan Mohan Reddy‘s claim that he was denied entry to the Tirumala temple, challenging him to provide evidence of any notice served. “I am asking him to show the notice served to him,” Naidu insisted, rejecting the allegations.Naidu said that law enforcement had invoked…
NEW DELHI: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday hit out at CM Chandrababu Naidu and said “demons are ruling” the state as he cancelled his visit to Tirumala temple. He said he had “never seen political parties creating hurdles even to visit a temple”. Reddy cancelled his scheduled…
TIRUPATI: The TDP on Thursday suspended Satyavedu legislator Koneti Adimoolam from the party after a sexual harassment charge surfaced against him.A woman TDP leader from Satyavedu, who is a mother of two, shot off a complaint to party supremo and AP chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, accusing the Satyavedu MLA of subjecting her to sexual…
VIJAYAWADA: Two of YSRCP‘s 11 RS MPs – Mopidevi Venkata Ramana and Bida Mastan Rao – resigned from the House Thursday, fuelling speculation about a further erosion of the party’s position in RS within months of losing Andhra Pradesh.MPs Golla Baburao, R Krishnaiah, Parimal Natwani, Alla Ayodhyarami Reddy, and Meda Raghunath Reddy might be next,…
NEW DELHI: In the history of political scams, fodder has found its competitor with the recent allegations of “egg puff scandal” by the Telugu Desam Party on the former Andhra chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy.This came after there were reports of Rs 3.6 crore being allegedly spent on egg puffs by the YSRCP leader during…
NEW DELHI: The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which aims to drastically change the Waqf Act and has attracted resistance from opposition parties and Muslim bodies, was referred to a joint parliamentary committee on Thursday for scrutiny after govt cleared its first stress test in Lok Sabha by getting the support of ‘secular’ constituents of NDA —…
NEW DELHI: Days before the Union Budget is placed in Parliament, major pressure from NDA partners JDU and TDP seems to have eased as both did not press for ‘special category’ status for Bihar and Andhra at Sunday’s all-party meeting and instead suggested that there could be special packages to meet specific requirements.While JDU working…
