After the TDP high command stripped party Telangana working President A Revanth Reddy of all the posts he was conferred upon earlier, the Assembly Secretariat asked him to vacate the office allotted to him in Assembly premises.

Revanth Reddy had been given a special office room in the Assembly premises since he was the TDLP floor leader. He has now been asked to vacate the same office since he had been removed from the said position just yesterday. As per reports, all the stuff in the office has immediately been shifted to Revanth Reddy’s residence.

Meanwhile, Revanth Reddy has been invited to attend TDLP meeting in the Assembly in the capacity of an MLA. The TDP leader however decided to stay away from the meeting.

Irony is that Reddy, who yesterday called for a party meeting in the capacity of Floor Leader, has been stripped off the same post, made to vacate the office in Assembly, and allegedly forced to skip the meeting that he called for, all in a matter of 24 hours.

YS Jagan has given a call for all the 44 MLAs (excluding Jagan) of his party to boycott the Monsoon Session of AP Assembly that will begin next month. Jagan has held an emergency meeting at Lotus Pond where he called on all his MLAs and passed a resolution on not to attend the Assembly owing to inaction by the Speaker over defections.

YSRCP had won 67 MLAs in 2014 general elections. However, at least, 21 MLAs have been defected to TDP. While in the recent Nandyal by-poll, TDP snatched the victory and won the Assembly constituency, the other MLAs of YSRCP including four who are currently serving as ministers – Bhuma Akhila Priya (Allagadda), Amarnath Reddy (Palamner), Adinarayana Reddy (Jammalamadugu), Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao (Bobbili) – are still sailing with TDP.

Amidst this, YSRCP has decided to take the fight to next level. Taking a serious note of Chandrababu Naidu’s government and Speaker Kodela Siva Prasad for not taking any action against the defectors, Jagan called his party MLAs to stay away from the Assembly during Monsoon session and instead asked to stage dharnas across the state.

Sr NTR’s second wife Lakshmi Parvathi staged a silent protest (mouna deeksha) at her husband’s memorial, NTR Ghat on Thursday morning. After a brief sit-in, she spoke to media and said that she would go to court if anyone makes biopic on NTR with distorted facts.

The YSRC party leader said that she was quite disturbed by the reports of people making biopics on her husband, dragging the unknown side of his personal life into public using imaginary and concocted stories. She specifically talked about “Lakshmi’s Veeragrandham”, a biopic announced by Tamil Nadu-based filmmaker Kethireddy Jagadeeswar Reddy.

“I have been fighting for several years demanding justice for how my husband was emotionally murdered. His soul has been my support all these years. Now, all of a sudden, these people came and announced biopics claiming they love and respect him, its rubbish”.

Making “Lakshmi’s Veeragrandham” without my consent in unlawful. I will take legal action against the makers as they haven’t yet approached me for my approval. I will tolerate if they malign my image through these cheap films but I will launch a legal attack if they tarnish NTR’s image,” she warned.

The other day, Jagadeeshwar Reddy has announced that he would direct a biopic on NTR, with the title – Lakshmi’s Veera Grantham. He said that several crucial episodes in NTR’s life, including Lakshmi Parvathi marrying Veeragandham Subbarao, and later leaving him for NTR will also be showcased in the biopic.

It is known that Balakrishna and Ram Gopal Varma are also making separate biopics on NTR.

It’s no secret that Jagan Mohan Reddy hasn’t shifted his base from Hyderabad. And so YSRCP that operates from Lotus Pond. So, whenever, Jagan calls for a meeting with party leaders or core-committee members, all senior YSRCP leaders from AP have to book their flight tickets to Hyderabad and then book hotel room accommodation in the city.

After coming all the way to the city and going to Lotus Pond after getting ready, the meetings would be called off in the last minute. On many occasions YCP leaders said to have incurred loss of money, time, effort. What’s more shocking is that a proper reason was also not given to YCP leaders who return with heavy disappointment.

This is said to be causing a great inconvenience to YSRCP leaders. Although they murmur such incidents, but no one has guts to speak in front of Jagan such matters.

Although the whole government and administration has been shifted to new state of Andhra Pradesh, Jagan has been working from Hyderabad.

The Trump administration, which aspires to get back the jobs from foreign workers for the sake of its American workforce, has taken another significant step towards its goal. With a new directive saying the burden of proof lies on the applicant during every extension, it has made it more difficult to renew non-immigrant visas such as H-1B and L1, which are popular among Indian IT professionals.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently said the burden of proof in establishing eligibility is on the petitioner only, even when an extension of non-immigrant status is sought. The previous memorandum, which had been in effect since 2004, placed the burden on the federal agency.

According to the previous policy, if a person was once found to be eligible for a work visa, they would usually be considered for extension of their visa. However, as per the revised memorandum, they need to prove their eligibility to the federal authorities during every extension.

Experts say that the change would affect both new visa applicants and people already living in the country.