1. When Naidu flew off the handle for a flyover

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    Just what’s wrong with Chandrababu Naidu? That’s the question everyone is asking after his `maha dharna’ in Vijayawada on Monday. Naidu was demanding the construction of a flyover near the Kanakadurga temple in the city to reduce traffic congestion. A former CM of Andhra Pradesh agitating for a flyover, begs...
  2. A wake-up call for Chandrababu Naidu

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    “It is all Chandrababu Naidu’s fault,” a senior Telugu Desam leader told me after the results of the byelections in Andhra Pradesh had delivered a duck for the party. When I asked him to explain, he rewinded to December last year. “All this is the result of the no-confidence motion...
  3. Sowing the seeds of democracy in Andhra Pradesh

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    Andhra Pradesh’s top cop Dinesh Reddy is candid enough to admit that the magnitude of the unaccounted for money seized during the campaign period in these byelections has shocked him. While the Andhra Pradesh police confiscated some 30 crores worth of cash and jewellery, the Election Commission through its officers...
  4. Money, smile aur dhoka

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    Anyone feeling depressed that the rupee is going down should see the bundles of cash seized by the authorities during the current round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh. A total of 54 crore rupees (in cash and jewellery) – all unaccounted for – has been confiscated. Compare this with 2009...
  5. With Jagan in, Mom and Sis step out

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    The tap of news hasn’t stopped leaking from sources at the CBI and Dilkusha Guest House. The how and why the CBI decided to arrest Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday evening after he reportedly evaded questions for three days, demonstrated a headstrong attitude and even misbehaved with CBI officials....
  6. BJP – Beautiful Jaya Prada – may join BJP

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    She has not changed in all these years. Yes, I am talking of Jayaprada and am not talking only about the way she looks. The actor, described by a person no less than Satyajit Ray as `the most beautiful face on the Indian screen’, has said, “she is getting lots...
  7. I don’t fear arrest, says Jagan

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    “I am going in for prayers, I will be with you in ten minutes,” says Jagan, when we meet at the appointed hour this morning. In another two hours, he would be face to face with the interrogators from the CBI for the second day running. The Christian influence is...
  8. Blame it on YSR & Son

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    The gloves are off. And the Congress gameplan is now clear. Blame it on YSR. And his son. If the resignation letter of Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana is anything to go by, this is the strategy worked out by the Congress leadership in Delhi. Allow CBI to net half a...
  9. Question Time CBI for Jagan

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    It is 10:30 am. Jagan is setting out on his election campaign trail in Macherla in Guntur district. It is hot as hell, the mercury hovering around 43 degrees. But that’s not the worry for YSR Congress party leaders and workers. Occupying their mindspace is the thought that in exactly...
  10. It is a Congress-TDP plot

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    Today is a black day, worse than the Emergency in India. They have made a mockery of democracy. Going purely by allegations, the CBI has frozen the bank accounts of Sakshi newspaper and TV channel. A newspaper that is number 8 in the country, with a circulation of 14.5 lakh...

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