Rajya Sabha member Chiranjeevi is very keen on getting minister post to Ramachandrapuram MLA Thota Trimurthulu, is the buzz going on in the political circles. It is to be recalled the Congress could bag only two assembly seats out of 18 in the recent bypolls. Trimurthulu and Kotthapalli Subbarayudu are the two Congressmen who emerged victorious in the bypolls. Incidentally, both of them belong to the same community to which Chiranjeevi belongs.

Former Assembly Speaker KR Suresh Reddy may join the YSR Congress Party soon, say the sources. Lately, nothing much has been heard about Suresh Reddy, since he lost election from Armoor seat in 2009. Now all of a sudden his name pops up as one of the probables to switch over to YSRCP.

As a top cop, it might have been part of his duty to meddle with the things going on around him. But his habit of meddling is still continuing after retirement also! Given to his penchant for landing in controversy, it is not at all surprising that a former director general of police is taking 'interest' in the appointment of the new chief secretary of Andhra Pradesh.

Not strange that everyone wants to desert a sinking ship. It is happening with Jagan Mohan Reddy also. If sources are to be believed, the 'Reddy-duo' - CMDs of two pharma majors in the state, said to be very close to Jagan, are all set to turn approvers in the CBI levelled cases against Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Jagan chuttu ucchu bigusukundane antunnaru andaru! Jailu tappadani kooda antunnaru! It is alleged that Jagan Mohan Reddy has amassed huge illegal wealth in the name of 'Business' during the tenure of his father late YS Rajasekhar Reddy as the chief minister. Minister Shankar Rao and two others have filed a PIL in the High Court against Jagan alleging large scale corruption. On a directive of the court, the CBI registered a case and has started conducting raids on Jagan and his alleged associates' companies.

IAS officer Vidya Sagar, who is working as principal secretary in the AP Social Welfare Department, befriended a woman named Vatsala some six years ago. Later their friendship developed in to intimate relationship. Vidya Sagar has a 20 acre farmhouse at his native place in Prakasam district. He got a house constructed in it and put up Vatsala there.

It is not new for the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams to be in news for one reason or the other. Right from the common man to VVIPs and IAS Babus, all have immense faith in Lord Balaji. Everyone wants to be near the Lord and serve him. Not to be left behind, 1983 batch IAS officer L V Subramaniam also wants to serve the Lord Balaji and for that he wants to become the Executive Officer of TTD.

It's quite quizzical to find a retired cop's name in the list of probables for new DGP post! The murky politics of Andhra Pradesh police has been making news for a long time, ever since the governments of the day started superseding officers and appointing police chiefs on criteria other than merit. The legal challenge by superseded cops have also been ignored by the government what with the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which hears such petitions being rather slow to come up with their orders.

The case against former chief minister K Rosaiah is said to be very strong. It is well known that, a case related to denotification of 9.14 acres of prime land in Ameerpet was booked against K Rosaiah, soon after he relinquished the post of CM. The land, which was initially assaigned for a government building, was denotified by the then CM Rosaiah garu in favour of some private individuals.

Retired director general of police SSP Yadav's loyalty towards YSR family is still intact. And he is very keen to show it also. A few days ago, the retired officer hosted a dinner for Kamal Kishore Singh, a 1996 batch IPS officer belonging to the Bihar cadre and who has been posted as a central observer for the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula assembly bypolls slated for May 8.

In November last, when N Kiran Kumar Reddy took over as the Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh, State Advisers appointed by his predecessor YSR resigned promptly from their posts as per the convention in vogue. While Kiran Kumar Reddy last week accepted the resignations of low-profile C C Reddy (agriculture) and C S Rao (IT), the resignations of other high-profile advisers like K V P Ramachandra Rao and D A Somayajulu are kept in abeyance since November 2010.

News is that, TDP Lok Sabha candidate for Kadapa byelection M V Mysoora Reddy will file his nomination on the last day (April 18). Mysoora didn't even start his campaining officially so far. Why he is stalling filing of nomination papers till the last day, is bothering the party senior leaders now.
 

Although the Congress high command is yet to take the final decision, a section of party leaders at the state level are intrigued with the proposal to field former MLA N Varadarajulu Reddy for the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency and agriculture minister YS Vivenkananda Reddy for the Pulivendula assembly constituency in the bypolls on May 8. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president D Srinivas are expected to leave for Delhi soon to get the party's nod for these names.