Kuppam relegated to last position

Kuppam is relegated to the last position in the numerical order under delimitation and is now constituency number 294. The victory of N Chandrababu Naidu by a majority of 59,588 votes may be a thing of the past,...

Locomotive chugs in; seats waiting

Astride two regions, mega star Chiranjeevi is trying to play NTR by contesting from Tirupati and Palacole in his native West Godavari district. The resemblance may end there as 25 years after NTR’s avant...

The Pulichintala debate

Pulichintala, the ambitious project of the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government, is a long-cherished dream of farmers in the Krishna delta region.  The Pulichintala dam, 1,290 metres long and 42 metres high, is proposed to be built with an estimated cost of Rs 566 crore...

Family contest in Armoor

Surrounded by nine bewitching hills, the agriculture-rich Armoor, also known as Navanathapuram is geared up for an interesting ‘all in the family’ contest in this citadel of Congress.  The vagaries of...

The quintessential nehruvian: Jaipal Reddy

Hyderabad: He has been a trend-setter and the fact that the delimitation exercise has left him without his constituency, Miryalguda, has allowed him to stay off the beaten track yet again. Quite aptly, even though it entailed a shift of districts from Nalgonda to Ranga...

Battle ground Secunderabad

If all the world was a stage, as Shakespeare said, playing the successful politician is one of the most demanding acts. As a natural actress, Jaysudha has charmed two generations of film lovers in the state but she knows fully well the demands of her new role. Having been...

Goud enough to be relevant?

Devender Goud is reputed to be the richest politician in AP and in Ranga Reddy district they speak in tones of awe about his land holdings on the putskirts of Hyderabad. He does not look it though. Diminutive and...

A tilt at MIM's windmills

We can call it the Jayaprakash Narayan syndrome. Whenever an upper middle class personality from a leafy locality declares that he has a political conscience and that his duty is to clean up the Augean stables...

KCR trying to lose

I’m going to ask you now to imagine some weird things. Just go along with it and then later, you tell me how shockingly real they are. Pretend a man is riding on a fully-grown male tiger. He has been on the tiger...

Erraddictae poverty says Rahul Gandhi

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has slammed the erstwhile Telugu Desam government, saying it failed to address the problems of the ‘aam aadmi’ and sadly neglected the farmers' plight. Addressing public meetings in Ankapalle and Visakhapatnam on Thursday...

Why free power worked for YSR

When YSR went to the polls with his free power promise in 2004, Chandrababu Naidu was ecstatic. “Good. Power lines can be used to dry clothes,” he said with the enthusiasm of Mike Tyson anticipating a match up against a bareknuckle puncher. He said the power system...

Mahbubnagar: A case study

How would you know that a social security scheme is doing its work? Official reports will say what they will say, but proof of the worth of a welfare scheme lies in the answer to one question: Do the children go to school? I am in Dokur, a village about 120 km from the...

Chiranjeevi visit surprises villagers

Chiranjeevi's emotional comments about his surprise visit to his birth place, Mogalturu in the middle of the night after completing his roadshow in West Godavari has been covered extensively in the press today. But...

Pensions: Tales from the precipice

One fine morning four and a half years ago, hope returned to 75-year-old Rangaraveni Sayavva, door-delivered in the form of an old-age pension. For the frail widow weighed down by ill health, it didn’t take long to realise that this unexpected aid, though not a bounty,...

YSR turns to urban issues

After spending the morning in Ugadi festivities, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy hit the road in the afternoon, touring constitutencies in and around the city. His campaign accordingly turned urban in contrast with the districtly rural tone of his speeches on the first...

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