Telangana activists are seething with anger over Pawan Kalyan’s remarks on KCR and TRS yesterday and BJP may end up paying badly this election for the choices it made in alliance and campaigns. After stitching an alliance with anti-Telangana TDP which was seen as a political suicide, BJP in Telangana seems to have completely lost the plot. The alliance limited BJP’s contest to 40 odd seats in Telangana. The conflict and confusion between TDP and BJP delayed the alliance from percolating to grassroots levels and cast doubts over whether the votes would transfer from one party’s followers to another’s. Meanwhile, Kishan Reddy admitted into Telangana BJP actors like Suresh and Jeevitha. Suresh, whose anti-Telangana vitriol is viral on social media ...

“Don’t take it too seriously,” is what Malkajigiri’s MP candidate from Lok Satta, Jayaprakash Narayan said, when cornered on one of the points of his manifesto, leaving a vast number of electorate stunned. Residents of Alwal had invited Narayan to a public interaction to question him on his party’s manifesto after many residents raised objections to the party’s promise to pay pension to the families of people who die from excessive alcohol consumption. JP, who was in the eye of a storm recently after a sting operation by a news channel showed his Delhi-unit president bragging about his ability to influence top leaders and work for certain vested interests, sought to defend the manifesto, saying it would cost the state ...

TDP seems to be trying hard to exert pressure on BJP on the candidates it chooses for it’s quota of LS and Assembly seats in Seemandhra. After BJP brushed aside Raghurama Krishnam Raju’s candidature for LS and nominated D. Purandeshwari from Rajampet despite Naidu’s repeated attempts to the contrary, Naidu’s coterie seemed to have decides they would play some mind game with BJP and started leaking rumors from a Pro-TDP news channel that the alliance is being called off due to ‘RSS interference’ in selecting BJP’s candidates. BJP did concede ground to TDP earlier when Naidu demanded Purandeshwari be not put up for LS or Assembly election. Succumbing to pressure, BJP dropped her name for Vizag and Vijayawada where she ...

MP G.Vivek who returned to Congress from TRS couple of weeks ago opened up for the first time about his 10 month experience in TRS. Vivek, who, at the time of his return to Congress, said he was treated well in TRS and that he was only disappointed the TRS-Congress merger didn’t happen gave an interview with a daily as Congress and TRS are at loggerheads in the polls and are widely exchanging bitter criticism of each other. Vivek directly attacked KCR and accused him of being a dictator and questioned his style of functioning, including his working hours. He said KCR works only between 3 and 6 PM and there is hardly any organization in TRS except 2 or ...

After the Operation Loksabha sting done by a TV channel, while Loksatta released statements suspending and then expelling its Delhi Loksatta President, JP refused to answer any questions that the sting throwed up. Now, his opponent from Malkajgiri Lok Sabha, Prof Nageshwar, who is contesting as an independent, put forth specific questions to JP about his deal with BJP, TDP and his Pro-Corporate lobbyism. He questions the truth in JP’s claims about ‘new politics’ for new generation. 1. Is there a secret deal that JP would be made minister if Modi forms a Govt.? Is this why despite no alliance between BJP and LSP, JP is repeatedly supporting Modi? 2. If JP believes in supporting NDA, why did he talk ...