The TDP won the post of Kuppam Municipal chairman in an election, quite unexpectedly, after the four YSRCP councillors jumped ship.
It’s common for political parties in India to shift their legislators to resorts and hotels in other states within the country ahead of trust votes to foil poaching attempts by their rivals, but what is being witnessed in Andhra Pradesh is unprecedented.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 has sparked a political debate that extends beyond its legislative framework, shaping electoral narratives and ideological positioning within the NDA alliance. While the ruling coalition’s allies have backed the bill, their approach highlights a careful political calibration ~ balancing legislative alignment with the BJP while preserving their outreach to Muslim communities.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has issued a whip to all its Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha for April 2, when the Waqf Amendment Bill is scheduled to be introduced in the House.
The ‘red book’ of TDP leader Nara Lokesh in which he noted the so-called illegal acts of government officials during the YSRCP regime in Andhra Pradesh, seems to have caught the imagination of the Opposition in Telangana as well.
Former TDP MP and senior advocate Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar has written to the chief election commissioner complaining that the Apple iPhone of TDP’s national general secretary Nara Lokesh has been tapped by unknown agencies using Pegasus software.
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.
The Union Home Ministry has upgraded the security provided to TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh to the Z plus category but it has not gone down well with the ruling YSRCP which criticised the move.
Following its alliance with BJP and Jana Sena, Chandrababu Naidu’s party is contesting from 17 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday questioned the tripartite alliance between TDP, BJP and Jana Sena asking if they fulfilled any of the promises they had made in 2014 including special status to the state when they fought the elections together.
