PONNALA LAKSHMAIAH

BRS' KTR meets Ponnala Lakshmaiah and says, 'We invite Ponnala to BRS. We will give him a suitable position.'Telangana politics: KTR meets Ponnala Lakshmaiah, says he will be given an appropriate position in BRS

Party leaders Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, Thatiparthi Jeevan Reddy, Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud, Jagga Reddy, J Geetha Reddy, Mohammed Azharuddin, M Anjan Kumar Yadav, Kunduru Jana Reddy and V Hanumantha Rao are also part of it. Ponnala Lakshmaiah, C Damod...

The changes come at a time when Rahul Gandhi's two-week sabbatical, in the midst of the crucial Budget session, is nearing an end.

The by-election, scheduled to be held on September 13, has been necessitated by Rao's resignation after he became Telangana Chief Minister.

State Congress President Ponnala Lakshmaiah alleged that K Chandrasekhar Rao has done precious little in his one month in office.

Cong would form govt in new Telangana state along with Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen & CPI if it it fails to get a majority on its own, Telangana Cong president Lakshmaiah said.

"The whole world has seen how the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress party made the passage of the Telangana bill and creation of the new state possible."

Congress claimed that it would win a chunk of seats in Telangana in upcoming LS and Assembly elections even though the party is "open" for electoral alliances.

Downplaying the development, Telangana Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah said his party never proposed either merger or alliance with the TRS.

Taking exception to Reddy issuing a notice to Speaker, ministers and other leaders from Telangana demanded that he withdraw the notice.

The MPs met the president, who is on his southern sojourn here, and demanded that he stall the process for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

There has been a lot of bad blood between ministers from Telangana and coastal Andhra-Rayalaseema regions.

Andhra Pradesh would soon come out with 'GAME' (Gaming, Animation, Media and Entertainment) policy, state Information Technology minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said.

With many of its plans to break the impasse over the Telangana issue coming unstuck, the Congress is now reportedly toying with the idea of moving a resolution on the statehood demand in the next session of Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

An industry body today presented a "route map" to the Andhra Pradesh Government to augment the current pace of development in the IT sector.

Samsung, Hitachi, Huawei and Solartech of Taiwan are already already queuing up to explore the possibility of setting up manufacturing units in the state, if the Andhra Pradesh government is to be believed .

The CBI has summoned India Cements MD N. Srinivasan in connection with its probe into alleged disproportionate assets of the jailed YS Jagan Mohan Reddy

Danish software major Columbus Global will soon set up shop in Hyderabad as part of its expansion plans.

Amazon will set up a facility here, which would provide employment to over 3,000 people, Andhra Pradesh government said today.