Ever since senior politician and Kapu patriarch Mudragada Padmanabham kick-started his agitation demanding Kapu reservation, there has been an intense buzz in the political circles that Mudragada has YSRCP’s President YS Jagan’s support.While Mudragada never came out in open about his alleged nexus with YSRCP, the latest reports about his son Mudragada Challa Rao (Giri Babu) added fuel to the fire. According to the latest reports, Challa Rao will be joining the YSRCP very soon.

Challa Rao came into the political scene more prominently when Mudragada and his family members sat for a fast unto death protest demanding Kapu reservation. Challa Rao even approached the High Court with a house motion petition against the police rule in East and West Godavari districts.

Most recently, Challa Rao was in news when a video in which a policeman was m allegedly caught manhandling the Kapu crusader’s son during a protest against his father’s arrest.

During Telangana moment,many opposed to bifurcation saying AP will turn poorer and Telangana turn richer. After the bifurcation many thought Andhra Pradesh willnot be heard in news.However Andhra Pradesh sprang surprise by ranking second while Telangana ranked 13th in Union Government’s ranking according to business friendly initiatives taken. But all that was a year back. Now in a shocker with in a year everything changed so much so that Telangana came second and Andhra Pradesh slipped 17 places standing at 19th in the recent findings of the Union Government.

Telangana with business friendly initiatives surged ahead but sourcecs say states have time till June 15 to improve their position as final rankings will be given with the help of World Bank in the month of July. States and union territories were asked to upload the status of completed reforms by June 15. After that the DIPP and World Bank will come out with the final rankings.Commerce and Industry ministry is evaluating states on real time basis on 340 parameters compared to 91 last year. Bihar stood first place at present. DIPP revealed “Results may change frequently during this process. Final results will be available once the process is complete,”

Till now 16 states provide details and Bihar given information on 29 reforms. Though other states too submitted 200 plus reforms,Bihar’s reforms have been verified. Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka have secured third, fourth and fifth ranks respectively. Gujarat was ranked first on the ease of doing business index prepared by the World Bank last year but at present it is at sixth position.