BJP high command is planning to nominate Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh through TDP quota. However the anti-TDP and anti-Naidu group in BJP are not at all happy with this decision of the high command and see that benefiting TDP.

Center is in favor of giving Railway Zone to AP and are planning to announce it just before the GVMC elections.

Andhra Pradesh government may soon extend reservation for the poor among upper castes, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu indicated here today.

“We will conduct a survey. Based on that we will have no objection to extend reservation benefits to the economically- backward among the upper castes,” Naidu said while delivering the inaugural address at the Telugu Desam Party’s three-day annual conclave ‘Mahanadu’ here.

Proving most exit polls wrong, it becomes abundantly clear that there was no anti incumbency wave.

Our Correspidmet Ramya Kannan says "Early trends have started to pour in from the various counting centres in the state, and with that a clear trend has emerged - the AIADMK has a strident lead.

 Biennial elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats, including the one vacated by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, will be held on June 11, the Election Commission said on Thursday.

The elections were necessitated as 55 members from 15 states are retiring between June and August. One seat each from Rajasthan and Karnataka vacated by Anand Sharma (Congress) and Vijay Mallya (Independent) respectively will also go for polls.

He is to be restored as Chief Minister the very moment the President’s rule is revoked

Marking a graceful retreat from Uttarakhand, the Centre conceded on Wednesday in the Supreme Court that deposed Chief Minister Harish Rawat has won the trust vote conducted on May 10 and President’s rule in the State will be revoked during the course of the day.

 The Centre on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the Uttarakhand High Court decision to quash the declaration of President’s rule in the State.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and S.K. Singh heard Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi mention the matter seeking an urgent hearing and stay of the High Court verdict.

This Bench was presiding over the First Court and filling in for Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur, who is absent from court as he is attending the three-day Chief Justices' Conference which began on Friday.

Justice Misra referred the Centre's plea to the Registrar-General of the Supreme Court to be informed to Chief Justice Thakur, who is likely to list the case for hearing later on Friday before an appropriate Bench of the apex court.

In the short mentioning, Mr. Rohatgi said the judgment was dictated in the courtroom by the High Court Bench but a copy is not yet out.

“The special leave petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Friday morning. We are worried about what will happen between today and Monday... you can’t have a judgment delivered without a copy,” Mr. Rohatgi submitted.

Meanwhile, the nine disqualified MLAs have also sought permission to be heard in the Supreme Court.

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday quashed the imposition of President’s rule in the State on March 27.

The High Court Bench led by Chief Justice K.M. Joseph ordered that a floor test be held in the Uttarakhand Assembly on April 29, 2016, where former Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s claim of having majority support shall be put to test.

The judgment came amidst apprehensions raised by former Chief Minister Harish Rawat in an application filed on April 7, 2016 in the High Court that the Centre may revoke the President's rule before the court's verdict and install a BJP government.

The Bench expressed its anguish at the Centre having behaved like a private party in a federal structure of governance enshrined in the Constitution.

“We are pained that the Central government can behave like this. How can you think of playing with the Court?” Justice Joseph said.

The court had said that it would be nothing shirt of a travesty of justice if the Centre revokes the President's rule and form a government.

source: thehindu.com/