Looks like Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan will bring more trouble for the AP Government with his tour in the Agency areas. Pawan will be starting his bus tour from Rajahmundry to Rampachodavaram in Palle Velugu Bus.

While it is a novel way to reach people, sources in AP Government say that the agency region is witnessing an active Maoist activity. Therefore, the police need to be extra careful to ensure that Pawan is safe. Inside sources say that Pawan, who has been accusing the government continuously, will in fact bring more trouble.

As a fledgling political party, Pawan and his advisors should be aware of the law & order situation as well as the sensitivities in touring these regions. Apparently, the police department and intelligence wing are coordinating to ensure that Pawan is safe in Maoist-prone region.

Let us hope that Pawan notices the government’s efforts in protecting him in his bus tour and responds sensibly.

Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Statue of Unity in the honour of late freedom fighter and former Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. At 182 metres, the Statue of Unity stands as the world’s tallest statue.

Now, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu announced that the new Assembly in the state capital Amaravati will be taller than the Statue of Unity. The proposed new Assembly will be 68 metres taller than the Statue of Unity.

The design for the new Assembly is almost finalised by the CM. London-based world famous architect Norman Fosters, who had also designed several key administrative buildings in Amaravati, will soon submit the Assembly design’s blueprint to the state government.

The government would issue tender notifications by November end and the entire process will be completed in two years. The new Assembly will be constructed with 3 floors and a tower spiralling 250 metres into the sky. For the Assembly, Chandrababu has approved a design similar to that of an inverted lily flower.

The Assembly building will also have 2 galleries of 80 metres and 250 metres respectively. While the first gallery will accommodate 300 people, the sessions gallery can host 20 people. Both the galleries will offer splendid panoramic views of Amaravati city. The second gallery will be entirely made of glass and will have elevators. The building will be cyclone and earthquake proof.

Choosing Nandamuri Suhasini for the Kukatpally seat from Mahakutami has upset quite a number of Telangana TDP leaders whose internal bickering is costing the party. The latest wicket that went down in the Yellow Party is that of Madhavaram Ranga Rao who met TRS leader KT Rama Rao and joined the Pink Party.

Ranga Rao worked on the constituency finalising committee of the TDP for Kukatpally and Serilingampally constituencies. After Suhasini was chosen as the Kukatpally candidate, Ranga Rao apparently was kept away from campaigning activities and was not giving accurate information. This has upset Ranga Rao who decided to quit the party.

When he was with the TDP, Ranga Rao worked as the Corporator from Vivekanandanagar Colony Division. He also influenced the party in choosing his wife as the Corporator from the same division in the previous GHMC elections. During his meeting with TRS, other Kukatpally TRS candidates such as A. Gandhi, Madhavaram Krishna Rao and local corporate were present.

Telangana election campaigning is giving people many instances to laugh at. One such election gimmick by an independent candidate happened in Jagitial. Akula Hanumantha Rao, during his campaigning, distributed slippers to people and ask them to slipper him if he does not fulfil the promises he made.

Hanumantha Rao is contesting from Korutla constituency of Jagitial district. Along with slippers, he handed over pamphlets during his door-to-door campaign and offered his resignation letter in advance. He said that this “future resignation letter” is for the time if he doesn’t work well.

Meanwhile, the pictures of Hanumantha Rao distributing slippers to people are going viral on social media. It has in fact become a topic of serious discussion by netizens. While it is really a funny gimmick, on the flipside, it also shows that he is serious about his candidature for the constituency. Let us wait and watch if he can prove his words through his actions.Â

The raids on Telugu Desam leaders haven’t stopped yet. Rajya Sabha MP Sujana Chowdhary is the latest in the list and Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reached Sujana’s residence in Hyderabad and started searching.

But as per sources, the raids are being held for the past couple of days and media was informed quite late. A special team from Chennai took part in the raids which lasted up to 12 hours on Friday and on Saturday morning they resumed as usual. In the raids ED reportedly seized vital documents related to Sujana’s properties and companies. However there is no official word from ED.

It is unknown that AP CM Chandrababu Naidu has restricted CBI, IT and other entities entry in the state and so ED has focused on all the TDP leaders who have business spaces in Hyderabad which is the joint capital of the Telugu states.

The TDP and Sujana Chowdhary are yet to respond on the fresh ED raids.

During his election campaign earlier today, Telangana CM KCR criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP’s disease which spread communal madness. The TRS supremo further attacked the BJP Government for blocking the enhanced job quota for Muslims in Telangana.

On the other hand, BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagara Rao has said that it is KCR who has all the diseases and not Modi. It is KCR who is into full-time Muslim appeasement. Krishna has further said that one day KCR does yaagams and on the other day he chants Muslim job quota.

Also, BJP National Spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao has said that KCR has become desperate to appease Muslims and win their votes. GVL has said that KCR is pursuing anti-Hindu politics. The BJP leader equalled KCR’s rule to that of the Nizam rule and criticized his alliance with the AIMIM in the upcoming general elections.

Film star turned politician Pawan Kalyan said that he entered politics not for power but only to defend the self respect of the people of Andhra Pradesh. Addressing a large gathering in Mandapet, East Godavari, Pawan said that he has stepped into politics only to wipe out the dirt.

In a sharp attack on the YSRCP President YS Jagan, Pawan said that Jagan could not save his own party members (deflections to TDP) and that he won’t run away like Jagan. He further said that a strict action will be taken against the corrupt MLAs soon after Janasena comes to power.

Pawan said that neither Chandrababu nor Jagan can give a corruption free governance and that Janasena will wipe out corruption without any trace. “Any people’s representative doing corruption in sand mining will disappear like a fire cracker under Janasena’s rule,” Pawan said in a stern voice.

We exclusively learnt that the name of the new political party that would be started soon in Andhra Pradesh by former CBI official VV Lakshminarayana.

As per sources, the official name of Lakshmi Narayan’s party is Vande Mataram Party (VMP). Lakshmi Narayana is going to make it official on 26th Nov i.e Monday.

Looks like, the former IPS officer is likely to give tough competition to Pawan Kalyan and Janasena in AP as the ideologies seem to be similar. Also target set of voters for both PK’s Janasena as well as VMP would be similar as both are targeting the same educated voters and youth. Analysts opine that there could be a split of votes if Lakshminarayana’s Vande Mataram Party contests on its own without forging any alliance and thus it would eat into votes of Pawan. Let’s wait and see, what is in store.