In exit poll good news for BJP, the best tidings are from South
WHILE OVERALL the exit polls paint a positive picture for the BJP-led NDA, the party will be particularly happy if the predictions hold true for the South.
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Decode Politics: Why YSRCP is paying so much attention to postal ballots
AS RESULT DAY comes near, postal ballots have come to the fore in Andhra Pradesh, which voted in simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections on May 13. On Wednesday, after the ruling YSRCP moved the Election Commission (EC) in this regard, the poll panel withdrew its instructions that postal ballots would be considered valid even if they do not have the signature of the Returning Officer (RO).
Meet the YSRCP MLA, now ‘missing’, caught ‘destroying’ EVM on camera
Caught on video damaging an EVM machine at a polling booth during the elections in Andhra Pradesh on May 13 – and “absconding” since it went viral – Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy is a four-time Macherla MLA who, along with his brother, wields much influence in the constituency that is known for its violent politics.
Andhra Pradesh: YSRC MLA P Ramakrishna Reddy caught on camera damaging EVM; ECI orders ‘strict action’ | Watch
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday directed the Andhra Pradesh police chief to take strict criminal action against a ruling YSRCP MLA who was caught on camera damaging an EVM in the Macherla assembly constituency during the May 13 polls.
Amid post-poll violence in Andhra, EC summons Chief Secy, DGP over ‘failure’, ‘steps taken’
Following reports of incidents of violence on Monday polling day and later, the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday summoned Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary K S Jawahar Reddy and Director General of Police Harish Kumar Gupta to Delhi.
How caste dynamics power Andhra Pradesh politics: From Kamma-Kapu rivalry to Reddys’ dominance
Andhra Pradesh, since Telangana was carved out of it in 2014, has seen both regional parties – the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) – enjoy power for a term each.
In YSR family’s Kadapa fortress, Jagan sits pretty despite sister Sharmila, TDP’s bids to queer pitch
Sparse banana and lime plantations as well as drylands line most of the 70-km stretch from Kadapa to Pulivendla, when a sprawling sachivalayam (secretariat) and a medical college named after “son of the soil” late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy announce that one has entered Pulivendla, the home town of Chief Minister and YSRCP supremo Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Y S Sharmila interview: ‘PM Modi has done nothing for Andhra special status … BJP, TDP, YSRCP all non-performers’
Following a brief stint in Telangana, Y S Sharmila, the younger sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, returned to Andhra as the state Congress chief last year and is making her poll debut from the family bastion of Kadapa in the Lok Sabha elections. She will take on her cousin, the YSRCP’s sitting MP Y S Avinash Reddy.