AP politics

[edit] Independence Era
Potti Sriramulu worked towards unifying all the Telugu-speaking people into one state.

[edit] Congress Era
The Indian National Congress party won all the state elections from the emergence of the state in 1953 till 1983.Many Prominent leaders have developed the state a lot by constructing projects like Nagarjuna Sagar and Srisailam Dams. The Congress leaders led the state with a very bad development until 1975.after 1980 caste politics has been improved in the state.no dams has been constructed. Y S Rajasekhar Reddy era started by 2004 is very good time as the dams where required has been constructed but, the bad quality and the involvement of massive corruption in these projects aiding in defame of the party. Past, Present and Future trends suggest there are very bad days ahead for Congress.

[edit] First separate Telangana movement
It was started by Chenna Reddy, despite TPS, the party of Shri M Chenna Reddy won the elections sweeping all but one seat, Indira Gandhi had Chenna Reddy give up the movement for the separate state.

[edit] Second Telangana movement
The second Telangana movement for a separate state was started by K. Chandrashekar Rao in 2001.

[edit] Emergence of Telugu Desam
NTR established his Telugu Desam Party (meaning, Land of Telugus) with the support of people's dissent arising out of frequent changes in chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh by Indira Gandhi, chief of Congress party. Within a record 9 months of establishing, Telugu Desam was voted to power and NTR became the first Non-Congress chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh is the only state separated on the basis of Telugu speaking people.

[edit] Present Situation
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy of the Indian National Congress is the current Chief Minister of Andhra. His party won the 2004 elections as part of a coalition of with TRS. During the run-up to 2004 elections, Dr. Y.S Rajasekhar Reddy was able bring a common platform and mutual agreement within the Andhra Pradesh Congress Party. His campaign took form of a three-month-long "padhayatra" or foot-walk. The elections resulted in the defeat of the then-ruling Telugu Desam Party under the leadership of Chandrababu Naidu. The congress also won the municipal elections in 2005 and district local body elections in 2006 and also Panchayat Elections in 2006 with an overwhelming Majority. Passing by the moments, Farmers suicide and deteriorating phase of law, collapse of the Panjagutta Flyover, involvement of sons of Ministers and MLAs in Real estate killings, increase of Land Mafia around the State are counting enough for the negativity spread across the state for the Govt.

[edit] Politics and Media
The present politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) are divided between Congress and Telugu Desam.
Eenadu newspaper strongly favours and supports the Telugu Desam party, which was agreed to by it Managing Director Ramoji Rao other newspapers like Vaartha ( run by Girish Sanghi, Industrialist and director of Sanghi industries who joined Congress party during 2004 elections) and Sun Network(which owns Gemini and Teja channels) favour the congress party. This Press/media bias towards politics is not limited to the state of AP but it is present everywhere in India. YSR often openly threatens media. He adamantly points out the magnitude of corruption that was present in the Telugu Desam reign whenever questioned about the corruption in his government. Current trends suggest Congress will lose the next elections as people are fed up with the increasing corruption and discrepancy and misuse of power, human rights violation and non declaration of assets by ministers and MLAs including the chief minister etc. Most effected are the farmers. On an average there was no single day without a farmer's suicide because of the growing debts. Government audit authorities' reports criticized the Govt for ignoring the massive corruption in the Water Projects over the state.

[edit] References
- Politics in State of AP, India, Despande, Murthy, Rao, Sunday & Economic times 2004
- Indian Political moves and there applicability , Gajendra nayak, Stephen iyer, Asian Age 2003
- State of AP, Official government press releases, 1981-2004
- Caste system and its influence in south India, Manju Nair, Frontline
" - Eenandu, Vaartha, Andhra Jyothi, Andhra Prabha, Deccan chronicle, Times of India, The Hindu: News papers of India, Library reference British library, Bangalore, Steven guslie, sushma murthy, Manoj thakur"