FirstPost tears into the lies of Chandrababu Naidu and Jaganmohan Reddy. The national media ow realizes the farce the leaders are enacting the name of United AP and goes on to say the motive is to occupy political space in Seemandhra. Below is the article. It appears everyone is missing the point. The protests in Andhra Pradesh are not about Telangana, but about the occupation of political space in Seemandhra. Telangana is done and dusted. All the political players who are now leading the protests know they have been party to the central government’s decision to bifurcate the state. The deliberation on the creation of the new state has been a long-drawn process and neither the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ...

Historians tell Andhra State has been delayed in 1950s because Andhras insisted on having Madras for themselves. This newspaper clipping proves that. While the Andhras continues focus on Madras and wasted precious time, they did’t have a decent place to make their capital when their state is formed in 1953. So they had to move into a make-shift capital in tents! Now, they seem to be doing the same thing. Instead of focusing on where to locate for capital and how to prepare for that, they are blindly insisting on Hyderabad. Because of this they may lose badly in negotiations by not preparing well, although they may get Hyderabad as temporary capital.

Shockingly, Real Star Srihari passed away in a Mumbai hospital today. There was no news earlier about the liver problems he has been having which lead to his sad demise. He was looking ill though in last few months but no one suspected that to be a health problem. Srihari is born and brought up in Balanagar in Hyderabad to parents who hailed from Krishna district. He came up the hard way while his family toiled in a mechanic shop. He said sometime back how he cherishes the fruits of his struggle by sending his children to school only in a Mercedes Benz! It was Vijayawada strongman Vangaveeti MohanaRanga who introduced Srihari to Dasari Narayan Rao for a movie hero ...