The YSR Congress party on Thursday alleged the House Committee on land allotments, which was constituted by Speaker Nandendla Manohar on Wednesday, was aimed at defaming former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
Talking to reporters at the YSR Congress party office here, MLC Jupudi Prabhakar said that the committee has been constituted to specifically target the allotments done during the regime of YSR. He said that was the reason why the committee was given generic terms of reference. He suspected that the committee would defame YSR and Jagan Mohan Reddy in an organised manner.
However, Jupudi alleged that the committee was constituted to divert the attention from the liquor syndicate expose. (INN)
The brother of Routu Surya Prakash Rao the Congress MLA from Rajahmundry town, Routu Venkateswara Rao has joined YSR Congress party in the presence of the party president YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday. He said that he got attracted to Jagan because of his interest towards people, especially downtrodden. A large number of Venkateswara Rao followers also joined YSR Congress party at the same.
Addressing the huge meeting held at Ramachandrapuram in East Godavari district, Jagan said if he comes to power he will convert all the municipal schools into English medium schools. He asks the party cadres to work like soldiers for the victory of the party in the upcoming by-elections. He described the by-elections as the sign of general elections to be held at 2014.
2011/11/24 15:09:05 Congress MLA Anan Vivekananda Reddy on Thursday said that the party would not allow Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to return to the Congress party.
Talking to reporters at the Congress Legislature Party office, Anam said that the party would not welcome Jagan's re-entry into Congress party, under any circumstances. However, he said the possibilities of Jagan returning to Congress are weak. He said the Congress MLAs who joined the YSR Congress party could return to the parent party anytime.
Anam said that Jagan has started losing the faith of legislators who joined him after leaving the Congress party. He said previously about 30 MLAs were supporting the YSR Congress party. The number has now reduced to 20 MLAs. He said the number could reduce to just 10 in the next few days.
The Congress MLA appreciated the performance of N Kiran Kumar Reddy as the Chief Minister in the last one year. He expressed hope that Kiran Kumar Reddy would complete his full term. (INN)
The congress party wants the photo of late chief minister YSR removed from the flag of the YSR Congress party of Jagan. The congress party has made an oral complaint to the state election commission.
However, the SEC has asked the congress party to give a complaint in writing. The congress leaders say that the present government is YSR government and the schemes that are being implemented are YSR schemes.
The Jagan camp is however not going to sit idle on this issue. It will make a big issue out of it and will even approach the court in case the EC asks it to remove the photo of YSR from the party flag.
2011/8/11 10:26:57 YS.Vivekananda Reddy, who contested against his sister-in-law YS.Vijaya Lakshmi in Pulivendhula constituency but was defeated by her during the recent bye-elections, has been maintaining silence until now. But, he suddenly appears beside his nephew YS. Jagan Mohan Reddy while he is unveiling the statue of late YSR at Pulivendhula during his tour in Kadapa district. It is indeed a pleasant surprise for Jagan to see his uncle standing beside him after a long time. Not only that, Vivekananda Reddy also flayed the Congress leaders for trying to tarnish his brother late YSR’s image. He said whatever, he did was for the sake of the poor people and it was not an individual decision but a collective decision taken by the whole cabinet. Vivekananda Reddy also said that people and the god only know that his brother late YSR is honest and was not involved in any illegal affairs.
If, his gesture is considered to be a change in his attitude favorable towards YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy then it will undoubtedly make some difference for Congress party in the state.
2011/11/20 12:03:48 All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Sunday hailed the decision of party MLAs who have decided to return to the Congress party from the YSR Congress camp.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Ponguleti said that the decision of MLAs to join the YSR Congress was hasty. However, they have now realised their mistake and are returning to Congress, he said adding that it would be an 'honourable' re-entry for all the MLAs. He said the MLAs have joined the YSR Congress party due to their affection towards former chief minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy and not because of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The AICC secretary said that the Congress party would not cow down to threats being issued by some vested elements to destabilize the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government. He claimed that there was no threat to the government as no could scare the Congress MLAs or lure them. He said that the Congress party enjoys majority and the No Confidence Motion likely to be moved by the Telugu Desam Party against the government would be defeated on the floor of the house. (INN)
Has the 125 year old congress party bereft of any men? This seems to be the case as the party finds it difficult to find a suitable candidate to fight Jagan in the Kadapa Lok Sabh elections.
The chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is now trying to get Kandula Rajamohan Reddy of the TDP into the congress.
Kiran wants to welcome Rajamohan Reddy with a congress party ticket to the Kadapa LS poll. D Srinivas are resisting this strongly. He feels that it would be improper to give party ticket to someone from the TDP who is joining the party now.
2011/12/3 15:52:46 Telugu Desam Party Deputy Floor Leader Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu on Saturday called upon the YSR Congress Party and Telangana Rashtra Samiti members to support the No Confidence Motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government.
Talking to media persons at Assembly's Media Point, Gali said that the YSR Congress and TRS members, who dared the TDP to introduce the no trust motion, have to prove their sincerity by supporting it in the House. When the Speaker Nadendla Manohar sought votes for debating motion, he said that the TRS members have been walked out of House and YSR Congress party MLAs did not support it. "This indicates that they have been sold out to Congress party and decided to save the government," he alleged.
When the reporters asked as to why he was making allegations against TRS MLAs when they clearly stated that they would vote against the government, another TDP MLA K S Ratnam shotback while accusing the media personnel of showing love towards TRS and YSR Congress. These remarks led to a heated argument between the scribes and K S Ratnam. In protest, the reporters demanded an apology from him. However, without saying anything Ratnam left the venue. (INN)
2011/3/8 7:54:19 At last the storm in the tea cup ends today with DMK agreeing to allot 63 seats to Congress party in the coming Assembly elections in Tamilnadu. The patch up was made in the nick of the moment when both the parties have almost prepared to break their relationship over this issue. As usually, DMK taking out its trump card of withdrawing its support to UPA Government has tried to blackmail the Congress party. But, the Congress party remains firm on its stand and won the game. DMK president Karunanidhi has announced that, he is happy to have alliance with Congress party in the coming assembly elections and declared that the problem has been amicably resolved by offering 63 seats to Congress party. Perhaps, this is the only one relief to the beleaguered Congress party which is passing through its worst time.
2012/2/1 14:35:29 YSR Congress party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu on Wednesday alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation was targeting the YSR Congress party leaders at the behest of Congress party.
Talking to reporters, Ambati allged that the CBI was not all looking into the involvement of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu in the Emaar scam and its has directed its investigation against the YSR Congress party leaders. He alleged that CBI Joint Director VV Lakshminarayana has been taking directions from the Congress High Command to target Jagan Mohan Reddy and other leaders.
Ambati also accused Lakshminarayana of selectively leaking information in the Emaar case to two vernacular dailies. Lakshminarayana himself would reveal the truth if a narco-analysis test is conducted on him, he said. (INN)
2012/5/6 8:06:44 Guntur, May 6 (INN): NTR-TDP (LP) president N Lakshmi Parvati on Sunday appealed to the people to vote in favour of YSR Congress party candidates in the ensuing by-elections.
Talking to reporters after performing pooja in Trikunteshwar Swamy Temple at Kotappa Konda, Lakshmi Parvathi said that only YSR Congress could bring development in the State. Stating that Jagan Mohan Reddy was like her elder son, she said that she would campaign for the YSR Congress candidates.
Lakshmi Parvathi said that the people have lost faith on the Congress party and the voters would never believe the promises being made by TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu. She hoped that the YSR Congress party would all the seats in the by-elections where polling will be held on June 12.
2011/11/24 15:12:57 The YSR Congress party has decided to vote in favour of No Confidence Motion, if moved by the opposition parties in the ensuing session of the Legislative Assembly starting from December 1.
The decision was taken in a crucial meeting presided by Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and attended by 21 MLAs. Later, briefing the media persons, Nellore MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy said that all the MLAs, who have joined the YSR Congress party, would support the No Confidence Motion. He said the YSR Congress party was not in a position to dethrone the government. Therefore, the party would support any since move that could lead to the fall of government.
Mekapati said that the some more MLAs from the Congress and other parties might join the YSR Congress soon. However, he did not elaborate further on the issue. He said the party discussed various other issues during the eight-hour long meeting. (INN)
2011/12/20 17:31:28 Congress MLA Adala Prabhakar Reddy on Tuesday appealed to the Pradesh Congress Committee to finalise the list of aspirants for the by-elections in the 24 constituencies which are likely to fall vacant due to the disqualification of MLAs.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Adala said that the PCC should hold consultations with District In-Charge Ministers and other local leaders to select the candidates who have good prospects of winning the by-elections. He said the party has no differences on the selection of aspirants for the by-elections and they would be selected with consensus.
Sarvepalli MLA said that the party would go for the election campaign with the schemes launched during the tenure former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. He also said the Congress party would certainly use the photograph of YSR in the by-elections. However, he said that the by-elections would not be a referendum on Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s performance.
The Congress party would make concrete efforts to win all the seats in the by-elections, he said. (INN)
2011/4/27 0:26:01 YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy who is fighting a lone battle against Congress and TDP in the by-elections, during his road show conducted at Chiyapalle village in Kadapa district, addressing the huge gathering has stated that, if he is still stick to Congress party, then he would have been politically buried in the hands of Congress leaders. He said it is a battle between late YSR and Sonia Gandhi, it is a fight between self respect and over confidence. He asked the people to carefully choose the right candidate out of several dummy candidates who have been stalled by Congress party to misguide them.
2012/3/30 7:16:50 Congress MLC Pulla Padmavathi, against whom the Congress party moved disqualification petition for indulging in anti-party activities, on Friday stated that she would continue with the Congress party.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Pulla Padmavathi said that she had decided to stay with the Congress party following Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's commitment to ensure good governance and launching of welfare schemes for the benefit of poor and middle class people.
Admitting that she had withdrawn her support to YSR Congress party, she said that she would work hard to strengthen the Congress party from now onwards under the leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Kiran Kumar Reddy. She said that she wants to continue with the Congress considering its bright future.
Padmavathi expressed her happiness over the Chief Minister giving top priority for SC/ST welfare through sub-plan.
Earlier, Legislative Council Whip Y Shivaram Reddy lodged a complaint with Council chairman Dr A Chakrapani against four Congress MLCs - Pulla Padmavathi, Konda Murali, S V Mohan Reddy and Jupudi Prabhakar seeking their disqualification for anti-party activities. (INN)
Cong by-polls campaign after release of candidates' list
2012/2/26 2:51:44 Rajahmundry, Feb 26 (INN): Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Sunday said that the Congress party would launch its official campaign for the by-elections to be held on March 18 only after the announcement of official candidates.
Talking to reporters here, Botsa said that he would participate in the campaign after discussing the same with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. He said the party leaders would convince people that only Congress party could give Telangana State. He hoped that the people would vote for Congress party based on the performance of State Government and its welfare programmes.
Botsa also accused Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu of resorting to personal attacks on Congress leaders in the State Legislative Assembly in order to get publicity.
Regarding the rebel MLAs, the PCC chief hoped that Speaker Nadendla Manohar would soon take a decision on the fate of 17 MLAs who joined the YSR Congress party.
Later, addressesing a road show in Polavaram, he said that the Congress party was trying to get National Project status for the Polavaram project. He also predicted that he Polavaram constituency would soon witness by-election due to the disqualification of rebel MLA S Babu Rao, now with YSR Congress party.
2011/8/21 3:43:06 At last, the 27 Congress MLAs, 2 MPs and 4MLCs in Congress party who were branded as YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy followers have decided to resign to Congress party and to their posts on Monday morning.
Pilli Subash Chandra Bose has told the media about their decision just a short while ago. He said they all are resigning because, the Congress party which come to power in the state for the second time with the efforts of late YS.Rajashekar Reddy, is now branding him as a culprit by mentioning his name CBI charge sheet, with which they were hurt. Hence, they have decided to quit the party and their posts in protest against Congress attitude.
Already, Konda Surekha and Jayasudha have submitted their resignation letters to speaker some time ago and rest of the MLAs will submit tomorrow morning.
Some more details about these development follows in our next posting with in a short while.
Gali asks Cong to hasten action against rebel MLAs
2011/12/9 12:53:29 The Telugu Desam Party on Friday asked the Congress party to explain as to when it would take action against its 16 MLAs who defied the whip in favour of YSR Congress party.
Addressing a press conference at the NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP deputy floor leader Gali Muddukrishanna Naidu suspected that the Congress might spare the rebel MLAs to avoid by-elections in the respective constituencies. He said that the Congress party should hasten the process of disqualification of its rebel MLAs, if it was serious.
Muddukrishnamma Naidu said that the TDP would sweep the by-elections as the people were fed up with the politics of both the Congress and YSR Congress party.
The TDP leader also alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged illegal assets of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has slowed down ever since he visited Delhi. He suspected that Jagan might broker a fresh deal with the Congress party using the rebel MLAs. In order to avoid or win the by-polls, the Congress might loosen the CBI's noose around Jagan in illegal assets case, he said. (INN)
2012/4/24 8:07:36 Hyderabad, April 24 (INN): Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Tuesday condemned the suspension of eight Congress MPs from the Lok Sabha for four days for stalling the proceedings over Telangana issue.
Talking to reporters at the State Secretariat, TRS MLA K Tarakarama Rao said that it was unfortunate that the ruling party has suspended its own MPs for raising the Telangana issue in the Parliament. He said if the Congress party continues to treat the Telangana MPs in a similar way, then people would 'suspend' the ruling party in 2014 elections.
However, the Sircilla MLA asked the Congress MPs to spell out their stand on the statehood issue. He said if the Congress MPs fail to clarify their stand clearly, then people would deem that their suspension from the Lok Sabha for four days was a political drama.
YSR Cong politicising Ambedkar's statue, alleges Congress
2012/5/12 3:58:01 Hyderabad, May 12 (INN): Medical Education Minister Kondru Murali Mohan on Saturday demanded unconditional apology from YSR Congress party leaders for lodging a complaint with the Election Commission against T Subbarami Reddy, Congress candidate from Nellore Lok Sabha constituency, for promising to install the statues of Dr B R Ambedkar.
Talking to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party office, Murali Mohan demanded that the YSR Congress party leaders immediately withdraw their complaint. If they fail to change their attitude, he said that the Dalits in the state would not vote in favour of YSR Congress party.
Stating that Subbarami Reddy has not violated the Model Code of Conduct by promising installation of Ambedkar's Statues, he said that Ambedkar was not a politician, but the architect of Indian constitution. Everyone is free to install Ambedkar statues anywhere in the country, he said.
The minister said that YSR Congress party leaders politicizing the Ambedkar statue’s issue to get mileage in the ensuing by-elections.
2011/8/8 9:47:36 Regardless of the fact that Congress president Sonia Gandhi will not be present to witness the event, Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi will complete the formalities of the long pending merger by taking the membership of the Congress party in New Delhi on August 20.
According to highly placed sources, Mr Chiranjeevi will take the membership of Congress party on August 20 in the presence of All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Following Mr Chiranjeevi formally joining the Congress fold, the PRP MLAs will join the Congress party on August 22 in the presence of Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana at Gandhi Bhavan.
With Ms Sonia Gandhi away from New Delhi due to her surgery for an undisclosed ailment, the party sources said that Mr Chiranjeevi decided to go ahead with the merger of his party in the presence of Mr Rahul Gandhi to avoid further delay.
Earlier, Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to Chiranjeevi inviting him to come to New Delhi between August 7 and 10 to complete the long pending merger process.
The formal merger between the two parties had been getting delayed on one account or the other. Mr Chiranjeevi had announced his desire to merge his party with the Congress on February 6, 2011, less than three years of forming the Praja Rajyam Party. (INN)
Congress MLA Anan Vivekananda Reddy on Thursday said that the party would not allow Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to return to the Congress party.
YS.Vivekananda Reddy, who contested against his sister-in-law YS.Vijaya Lakshmi in Pulivendhula constituency but was defeated by her during the recent bye-elections, has been maintaining silence until now. But, he suddenly appears beside his nephew YS. Jagan Mohan Reddy while he is unveiling the statue of late YSR at Pulivendhula during his tour in Kadapa district. It is indeed a pleasant surprise for Jagan to see his uncle standing beside him after a long time. Not only that, Vivekananda Reddy also flayed the Congress leaders for trying to tarnish his brother late YSR’s image. He said whatever, he did was for the sake of the poor people and it was not an individual decision but a collective decision taken by the whole cabinet. Vivekananda Reddy also said that people and the god only know that his brother late YSR is honest and was not involved in any illegal affairs.
All India Congress Committee secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar on Sunday hailed the decision of party MLAs who have decided to return to the Congress party from the YSR Congress camp.
Telugu Desam Party Deputy Floor Leader Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu on Saturday called upon the YSR Congress Party and Telangana Rashtra Samiti members to support the No Confidence Motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government.
At last the storm in the tea cup ends today with DMK agreeing to allot 63 seats to Congress party in the coming Assembly elections in Tamilnadu. The patch up was made in the nick of the moment when both the parties have almost prepared to break their relationship over this issue. As usually, DMK taking out its trump card of withdrawing its support to UPA Government has tried to blackmail the Congress party. But, the Congress party remains firm on its stand and won the game. DMK president Karunanidhi has announced that, he is happy to have alliance with Congress party in the coming assembly elections and declared that the problem has been amicably resolved by offering 63 seats to Congress party. Perhaps, this is the only one relief to the beleaguered Congress party which is passing through its worst time. 
YSR Congress party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu on Wednesday alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation was targeting the YSR Congress party leaders at the behest of Congress party.
The YSR Congress party has decided to vote in favour of No Confidence Motion, if moved by the opposition parties in the ensuing session of the Legislative Assembly starting from December 1.
YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy who is fighting a lone battle against Congress and TDP in the by-elections, during his road show conducted at Chiyapalle village in Kadapa district, addressing the huge gathering has stated that, if he is still stick to Congress party, then he would have been politically buried in the hands of Congress leaders. He said it is a battle between late YSR and Sonia Gandhi, it is a fight between self respect and over confidence. He asked the people to carefully choose the right candidate out of several dummy candidates who have been stalled by Congress party to misguide them.
Congress MLC Pulla Padmavathi, against whom the Congress party moved disqualification petition for indulging in anti-party activities, on Friday stated that she would continue with the Congress party.
At last, the 27 Congress MLAs, 2 MPs and 4MLCs in Congress party who were branded as YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy followers have decided to resign to Congress party and to their posts on Monday morning. 
