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  Andhra Pradesh Politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The present politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) are divided between Congress, Telugu Desam and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)
This Press/media bias towards politics is not limited to the state of AP but its present everywhere in India.
Apart from the political affiliations, the media/press in AP is known for its use of state of the art technology and for providing up-to-date information.
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 Andhra Pradesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ in Telugu) (Āndhra Prādesh), is a state in south-eastern India and is part of the linguistic-cultural region of South India.
Andhra Pradesh is the fifth largest state in India and it forms the major link between the north and the south of India.
The cuisine of Andhra Pradesh is reputedly the spiciest of all Indian cuisine.
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 Andhra Pradesh
It is bounded by Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the south and Maharashtra in the west.
Andhras were at the forefront of Indian nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Their demands for a separate state for Telugu speakers led to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1953 from parts of Madras and Hyderâbâd states; this led the way for the formation of language-based states throughout India in 1957.
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 Encyclopedia article: Andhra Pradesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశం)(Āndhra Prādesh), a state (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) in South India (additional info and facts about South India), lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude.
The Andhra (or Telugu (A Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu people in southeastern India)) were at the forefront of Indian nationalism in the late 19th (additional info and facts about 19th) and early 20th (additional info and facts about 20th) centuries.
Andhra Pradesh has several museums, including the Salar Jung Museum (additional info and facts about Salar Jung Museum), which features a varied collection of sculptures, paintings, and religious artifacts, and the Archaeological Museum, which features Buddhist (One who follows the teachings of Buddha) and Hindu sculptures and other antiques; both museums are located in Hyderabad.
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 Encyclopedia: Andhra Pradesh
Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Andhra Pradesh is an illustration of the diverse styles of temple building in the Indian subcontinent.
Tirupati is the best known of the temples of Andhra Pradesh, attracting millions of pilgrims throughout the year.
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 Wikipedia: Andhra Pradesh
It is bounded by Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the south and Maharashtra in the west.
Various dynasties have ruled the area, including the Andhra (or Satavahana), Shakas, Ikshvakas, Eastern Chalukyas, Vijayanagar, the Qutb Shahis, and the nizams (princes) of Hyderabad.
Andhra had a row of Congress govenments till 1982.
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Atul Kohli attributed Congress’s loss of its Andhra Pradesh stronghold in the early 1980s to two principal dynamics. On one level, some of the same factors that led to the party’s decline elsewhere were evident during the later years of Congress rule in the State.
Andhra Pradesh’s achievements in poverty reduction—especially in rural areas—were reasonably impressive during NTR’s tenure, an accomplishment that James Manor attributes at least in part to the government’s food and housing subsidies. However, as subsidy programs proliferated, the State’s fiscal position deteriorated.
Andhra Pradesh is a poor State even in the Indian context and poverty is widespread. The Bank noted that this would be the first in a series of loans to support power sector restructuring, and was intended to cover a four-year time period (1999-2003).
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 'Encounters' in Andhra Pradesh
H. Dora, the DGP of Andhra Pradesh announced on the next day that they were among the four persons killed in a fierce gun battle between the guerillas of the CPI (ML)(PW) and the police in the Koyyur forest area of Karimnagar district.
Public opinion in Andhra Pradesh is clearly against the police, with intellectuals, well-known democrats and even some leading newspapers editorially demanding a judicial inquiry and an end to fake encounter killings.
Andhra politics, an electronic newspaper reported that Kathula Sammaiah while saying that he was not part of the assailants who fired at Gaddar on 6th April 97, but added that Gaddar would not have survived if he had been there.
www.pucl.org /reports/AndhraPradesh/enc-ap-letter.htm   (1702 words)

  
 Andhra Pradesh : Heading for polls ?,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online
There was reported to be a widespread feeling, especially in the Andhra Pradesh countryside, that the TDP leader’s obsession with economic reforms had led to a spiralling of prices, unemployment and other ill effects, and that the hyper-concentration on Information Technology did not touch their lives.
The possibility of holding early Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and an unstable Kerala, where the Antony Ministry is in deep trouble, have added to the headache of the Congress, which at the moment is trying hard to retain the four northern states.
The Andhra Pradesh assembly was elected in 1999, at the same time as the current Lok Sabha, and that its term does not expire until well into 2004.
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 Andhra Pradesh
On Nov. 1, 1956, in accordance with the recommendations of the State Reorganization Commission Hyderabad state was partitioned along linguistic lines, and nine districts, including the city of Hyderabad, were added to Andhra Pradesh.
1982 saw the birth of the Telugu Desam Party and the rise of NTR as the chief minister of the state for the first time introducing a second political party to Andhra politics and breaking the single party monopoly on Andhra politics.
During the hungry season, hundreds of thousands of people in Andhra Pradesh are now kept alive on gruel supplied by charities.
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 Andhra descends into Civil War: ACR Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Its definition of `armed conflict' - a politically correct synonym for `civil war' - is purely objective in its international application: "[T]he report's definition of an armed conflict includes a minimum cumulative total of combat deaths of 1,000 in the current phase of the conflict" [ACR 2001, Introd.].
Moreover, were Andhra to eventually secede from the Union, it would mean the automatic severing of the entire South as well, for vital communications routes for Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka which connect these states with the rest of the Union flow through Andhra Pradesh.
The spread of secessionism to the prosperous IT-revolutionary state of Andhra Pradesh is a serious threat to the integrity of the Indian Union.
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 Uttar Pradesh -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The HEIC established an administration controlled by its senior officer in the region, the “Resident” of Delhi, to administer a political entity whose sovereignty was as ill-defined as its borders.
The U.P.'s political importance was diminished with the rise of Maghada and the Mauryan Empire and the Gupta Dynasty, but it soon became an important region to the Muslim invaders of India.
The state comprises the regions of Rohilkhand in the northwest, The Doab, or Brij (Braj) (Braj-bhoomi) in the southwest, Awadh (Oudh) (the historic country of Koshal) in the centre, the northern parts of Bagelkhand and Bundelkhand in the south, and the south-western part of the Bhojpur country, commonly called Purvanchal ("Eastern Province"), in the east.
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 Elections are all about money - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Andhra Pradesh, membership of the Lok Sabha and State assembly is a status symbol for the rich.
In Andhra Pradesh, politics may or may not be the last resort of scoundrels but it is certainly the first preference of a millionaire.
Andhra Pradesh is believed to be the worst in terms of money spent in the elections.
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 Andhra Pradesh History Congress
Andhra Pradesh was the first lingustic state to be carved in Independent India by bringing the Telugu speaking people together by our constant efforts in free India.
Andhra Pradesh History Congress is a registered voluntary body established in 1976 with the objective of promoting historical studies on scientific lines.
Andhra Pradesh History Congress has all the necessary academic infrastructure in its band of about 300 professionally trained historians prepared to work with genuine interest beacuse of their love for their motherland.
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 Bloomberg.com: Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During the current elections in Andhra Pradesh, one of Naidu's cabinet ministers defected and formed his own party to champion the Telangana cause, a demand that has been simmering for almost half a century.
The Andhra assembly election results ``are important to the extent Telugu Desam is an important part of the ruling coalition,'' said Rajat Jain, chief investment officer at Principal Asset Management in Mumbai, which has the equivalent of $806 million in Indian stocks and bonds.
Andhra Pradesh is one of four Indian states that have held local assembly polls in the past three weeks, along with the general elections.
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 Andhra Pradesh
'''Andhra Pradesh''' (ఆంధర దేశం), a state in South India, lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude.
Former chief minister [[Naidu with President Bill Clinton during one of his visits to India.]] The next Assembly saw NTR becoming the chief minister again, but he was soon overtaken by his finance minister and son-in-law N Chandrababu Naidu.
The temple town Tirumala lit during the night Andhra Pradesh is the home of many religious piligrim centers.
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 South India on alert as temperatures soar - Water Voices - HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
D.C. Rosaiah, relief commissioner in Andhra Pradesh, told AFP that 74 more people had died across the state, bring the death toll to 1,139.
Andhra Pradesh has one of the highest concentrations of India's poorest people.
Uttar Pradesh also reeled under severe heatwave conditions with the toll mounting to 50 on Wednesday as nine more deaths were reported.
www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jun/01/6321_272559,0016001100070003.htm   (608 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Why peace collapsed in Andhra Pradesh
After eight months of peace in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the guns have started booming once again and the body count is mounting with each passing day.
They accused Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Rajashekhar Reddy of running a "fascist regime" worse than the previous Telugu Desam party government which fought a long-running campaign against the rebels.
The recent turn of events in Andhra Pradesh means that it is ordinary people who are now left in the lurch.
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 P. V. Narasimha Rao :: Indian Leader
The major achievements in the political career of Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao were when he served as India's ninth Prime Minster from 1991-1996; twice served as the foreign affairs minister and once as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
He was born on the border of Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra but he chose to begin his political career with Andhra Pradesh state politics.
As a member of the Congress-I party,he served as a minister (1962-71) and chief minister (1971-73) in the Andhra Pradesh state government before his election to the Indian parliament in 1972.
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 Politics of Naxalite violence in Andhra Pradesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, announced on November 14, 2003 that the forthcoming mid-term elections to the State Legislature would be fought on the issue of ‘crushing’ the Naxalites.
Unless extremism is countered in a clear and decisive manner, it would not be possible to develop Andhra Pradesh in keeping with the aspirations of the people".
The Naxalites would not have grown stronger and bolder, nor would they have achieved a new presence in hitherto unknown areas in coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema, if the Government had not encouraged a policy of surrender and rehabilitation, rather than keeping-up the pressure on the Naxalites.
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 INSTITUTE OF POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ORF Institute of Politics and Governance seeks to become engaged in analysing the problems of governance in a democratic polity, the challenges of institution building in developing societies and in proposing alternative models of participatory political systems.
ATTACKING the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu, on October 1, 2003, is most spectacular act that Naxalites of the People's War (formerly People's War Group or PWG) have carried out till date.
ORF-Institute of Politics and Governance organized a two-day seminar on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits on September 1-2, 2003.
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A governor appointed by the President of India is the head of state while the executive arm of the state government is the Chief Minister and his Council of Ministers.
Andhra Pradesh has a total of 60 seats in the Indian Parliament in New Delhi: 42 in the Lok Sabha and 18 in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament.
The TDP is a member of the ruling National Democratic Alliance, a coalition partner in the central government led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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He served in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly from 1957 to 1977, supporting Indira Gandhi in her split from the Congress Party organization in 1969.
He held various ministerial positions in the Andhra Pradesh government from 1962 to 1973, including that of chief minister, or governor, from 1971.
Besides his political career, Rao was known as a distinguished scholar-intellectual who once was chairman of the Telugu Academy in Andhra Pradesh (1968-74).
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 Welcome to Telugu Desam Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The greatest duo to enchant and enrich the political scenario of the State had been formed.
The year 1989 was strange for him, and his political fortunes, The TDP was in opposition, and he was to be the in-absentia ambassador for NTR in the Assembly.
Thus, he laid the foundation for 1994, the year when the NTR-Naidu duo would capture the political centrestage of Andhra Pradesh politics, and with it of the Indian heartland.
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 templete7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YS, is an astute politician and a charismatic mass leader who carved for himself a special niche in State politics with utter devotion and dedication for the welfare of forlorn and downtrodden.
During his 25-years political career, he served the people to the best of his abilities in various capacities, both in government as well as in Party.
He was President of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice – 1983-1985 and 1998-2000.
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 The Hindu Business Line : Lok Satta collecting antecedents of candidates
LOK Satta, an organisation that is spearheading a campaign against criminalisation of politics since the past five years, is collecting the antecedents of all the candidates of recognised political parties contesting in the country in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies in various States.
The committee adopted nine-point criteria for evaluating the record of prospective candidates, which included whether the person was convicted in any case, whether charges were framed against him by a magistrate and whether his name was in the rowdy sheet or history sheet maintained by the police.
However, established candidates who have struck deep political roots continued to be in the fray.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2004/03/21/stories/2004032101400300.htm   (411 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - India - Regional Parties - Caste-Based Parties | Indian Information Resource
One irony of Indian politics is that its modern secular democracy has enhanced rather than reduced the political salience of traditional forms of social identity such as caste.
Part of the explanation for this development is that India's political parties have found the caste-based selection of candidates and appeals to the caste-based interests of the Indian electorate to be an effective way to win popular support.
On June 1, 1995, the BSP withdrew from the state government of Uttar Pradesh and, with the support of the BJP, formed a new government, making its leader, Mayawati, the first Dalit ever to become a chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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