BJP today promised to extend from five years to ten years the special status to Seemandhra region after bifurcation, senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu said in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
The union cabinet Friday recommended dissolution of Andhra Pradesh Assembly and extension of president`s rule in the state, official sources said.
An Election Commission-appointed surveillance team on Friday seized Rs 8.18 crore of unaccounted cash from two persons in Shamshabad in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh.
In Khammam Lok Sabha seat in Telangana, it is a clash of high contrast between capitalists and a communist leader, and this is a constituency where settlers in significant numbers from different regions could tilt the scales in no small measure.
Congress decided to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh only after obtaining written approvals from the Telugu Desam Party, BJP and the YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy said Thursday.
Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi said here Thursday that Andhra Pradesh has not lost anything after granting separate statehood to the Telangana region.
YSR Congress leader Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy, who was injured in a road accident late Wednesday, died at a private hospital here Thursday, party leaders said.
As many as 143 candidates are left in the fray for 10 Assembly seats and 23 for two Lok Sabha constituencies in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh which will go to the polls on May 7.
TDP on Wednesday announced backward caste leader R Krishnaiah as the party`s chief ministerial candidate for Telangana state.
Andhra Pradesh police are keeping a strict vigil on the bordering areas of the state to tackle Maoists ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a top police officer said on Tuesday.
Launching a scathing attack on Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said that his party has always been keen on Telangana formation, but the way Congress acted felt that it gave birth to a child but killed the mother.
Megastar K Chiranjeevi, fondly called as Amitabh Bachchan of Telugu cinema, is staring down the barrel in this pilgrim hub as many angry voters, who sent him to Andhra Pradesh assembly five years ago, now paint him as a villain who couldn`t prevent the state`s bitter split.
Nominations closed on Saturday for the penultimate round of Lok Sabha election on May 7 in which 64 seats will go to polls in seven states.
Former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and president of Jai Samaikyaandhra Party, Kiran Kumar Reddy, has opted out of the contest in the May seven elections in the state.
Free laptops for meritorious students, Rs one lakh cash award for girl students, separate budget for agriculture are among the promises made by BJP today in its manifesto for the Telangana region.
Riding on the back of the success of separate Telangana agitation, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao is expected to sail through in Medak parliamentary constituency in the general elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-Telugu Desam Party alliance in Andhra Pradesh appears to be in trouble.
YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy would contest from Pulivendula seat in native Kadapa district during the Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh.