Former minister and BJP State unit former president Kanna Lakshminarayana had sent his resignation to the party leadership on Thursday. A Congress leader and a staunch follower of late Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao, Kanna Lakshminarayana, joined the BJP before the 2019 general election.

Though he had prepared the ground to join the YSR Congress, for reasons known to him, he joined the BJP at the last minute. Then he became the state unit president of the party, till he was replaced with Somu Veerraju a year ago.

Kanna, a staunch critic of Chandrababu Naidu and a staunch opponent of Rayapati Sambasiva Rao in Guntur district politics, is now all praise for Naidu. He also praised Naidu for doing some good things for the Kapu community when he was the chief minister.

His exit and his joining the Jana Sena is set to be a disaster for the BJP in the state, particularly ahead of the 2024 general election. The BJP leadership has set its eyes on the Kapu community though it is currently aligned with the Jana Sena.

BJP MP, GVL Narasimha Rao went one step further and demanded that NTR district or Krishna district be named after late Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao. This was to win the hearts of the Kapus in the Godavari districts.

While the BJP wants to make inroads into the Kapu community to get the political advantage, the exit of Kanna Lakshminarayana, will certainly disturb their efforts. If Kanna joins the YSR Congress and favours alliance with the TDP, it is to be seen what move that the BJP would make in the next election.

Tragedy struck BJP state president Kanna Laxminarayana’s family. In a shocking incident, the BJP president’s daughter-in-law on Thursday died in mysterious circumstances.

32-year_old Nallappareddy Suharika had visited her friend’s residence in Narsingi on Thursday. According to the police, Suharika attended a party organised at the friend’s house and after dancing for some time, she suddenly collapsed. She was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, they said based on her mother’s complaint.

The police have so far not registered a case. The exact cause of Suharika’s death will be known only after post-mortem report.

BJP AP President Kanna Lakshminarayana called on victim’s of the Vizag toxic gas leak. He wished a speedy recovery to the injured. He enquired from the survivors about their health and treatment at KGH Hospital. Later, Kanna welcomed the steps being taken by the YSRCP Government to give compensation to the victims.

At the same time, Kanna demanded that a sitting judge of the AP High Court should probe the gas tragedy so as to identify the guilty people behind it. Only then, it would be possible to give proper punishment to the really responsible people for the killer gas leak. It may be recalled that since the beginning, the BJP leaders have been welcoming the Jaganmohan Reddy government’s immediate compensation announced for victims. However, they have been urging for a detailed probe into the tragedy. AP High Court has already taken up leakage as public interest litigation. Now, Kanna is demanding a high level judicial probe.

BJP state president Kanna Laxminarayana on Friday condemned the removal of state election commissioner Ramesh Kumar calling it unconstitutional, but said it was a predictable decision from the Jagan government as the chief minister believes in politics of vengeance.

“This is a classic example of what happens when a factional leader becomes the chief minister of the state. We have seen the kind of violence never seen before ahead of the civic body elections. Jagan is intolerant, authoritarian and an autocratic who goes to any extent to decimate his political rivals. He is an immature politician who crippled the economy of the state by resorting to unilateral decisions of revisiting and reversing the vital contracts and policies of the previous regime. He abolished the legislative council to satisfy his ego,” he said.

The BJP leader said vendetta politics has taken a more crude form. “The ruling party legislators are resorting to physical attacks, harassments with police cases and coercing defections,” he said.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and enquired about the measures being initiated by the state government to contain the spread of the contagion, Andhra Pradesh BJP president Kanna Laxminarayana on Monday accused the YSRCP leaders of misusing the funds disbursed by the central government for the aid of the poor in the state to its political ends.

Talking to mediapersons on the party’s 40th foundation day on Monday, Kanna accused the YSRCP leaders of distributing the funds granted by the central government to the people in the state by wrongfully claiming that the money was being distributed by party president and Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. He also criticized the Jagan government that it had miserably failed to assess the corona situation and also failed to determine and identify the number of positive corona cases in the state. He urged the BJP workers to help the needy.

Telugu 360.com carried a report under the headline ‘Politics in the times of corona: YSRCP leaders in poll mode, distribute money’. YSRCP candidates who are in fray for the upcoming civic body, ZPTC and MPTC elections were caught on camera distributing money to the people in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts.

The distribution of cash to the people has snowballed into a controversy. Senior TDP leaders including Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and Atchannaidu shot off a letter to Govenor Bishwa Bhushan Harichandan alleging that the YSRCP leaders were handing out Rs 1,000 cash to the people in violation of mode code of conduct in the state in view of the civic body elections. They also questioned why cash was being distributed by the YSRCP leaders instead of government officials.

Andhra Pradesh has so far reported 252 cases of corona, 190 of them linked to the Tablighi Jamaat religious congregation in South Delhi’s Nizamuddin. Kurnool tops the list with a total 56 positive cases of Covid-19, followed by Nellore with 34 cases and Guntur with 30 cases.

BJP AP President Kanna Lakshminarayana launched a never-before attack on the State Election Commission of Andhra Pradesh. He accused State Election Commissioner N Ramesh Kumar of remaining a silent spectator without doing anything to stop the election atrocities of Jagan Reddy party against the opposition candidates. The SEC had failed to create confidence in the election process.

Kanna demanded that the Central Election Commission should take over and supervise the local body polls. This is the only way out since the Jaganmohan Reddy government is flouting all norms and terrifying all opposition candidates. In Vizianagaram, there is no freedom for opposition parties to file nominations. The opposition candidates are under constant threat from the YCP goondas.

BJP MLC Madhav said that their party would agitate against Jagan Circar for its vicious attempts to disturb the multi-crore MANSAS Trust properties run by Gajapatirajus family in Vizag as Vizianagaram.

A day after GVL Narasimha Rao supported YCP Circar, BJP AP President Kanna Lakshminarayana visited and gave counter support to Amaravati farmers’ agitation against 3 Capitals. He went a step further in criticising YCP harshly. Kanna mockingly commented that even the Vizag people are highly scared of getting the Executive Capital status to their city because of the great threat from YCP land mafia.

Kanna has not commented on Chandrababu Naidu Vizag arrest. Whereas, GVL met and represented to Governor on how TDP was equally to blame in Vizag incidents. Suddenly, Kanna came to express his solidarity to Amaravati farmers. He sarcastically said that YCP rule is like handing over chocolates to innocent people only to rob their necklaces.
Kanna said that if elections are held now, the ruling YCP will not win lesser MLA seats than what TDP got in 2019. Because of this negative response from people that CM Jagan is avoiding the local body elections somehow.

The BJP AP leaders have stepped up their attack saying that the police department is losing the trust of the people under the Jaganmohan Reddy government. CM’s own uncle murder accused are not yet arrested in Kadapa district. The investigation is also made into a farce. Now, BJP AP President Kanna Laxminarayana is demanding that Jagan Reddy government should better give the Viveka murder case to the CBI. The lack of progress in the case showed the indifference of the ruling YCP.

Viveka murder triggered a major political controversy at the time of 2019 general election. Luckily for Jagan Reddy, the High Court ordered the political parties not to talk about the murder case in electioneering. Eventually, Jagan Reddy came to power. He is now facing allegations of suppressing facts in the murder of his own uncle. YCP leaders targetted the TDP leaders at one time. The police are making some buzz only when there are demands from opposition for status of investigation. Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan have also questioned Jagan several times on the negligence in Viveka murder case. If CBI takes up probe, it is sure to embarrass the Jaganmohan Reddy’s relatives in a big way.

The Bharatiya Janata Party AP unit began a novel protest programme to expose the Jaganmohan Reddy government’s failure in sand supply and consequent loss of work to lakhs of construction workers. BJP State President Kanna Laxminarayana along with other leaders started ‘Bhikshatan’ in Guntur. He demanded that Jagan Circar should pay a compensation of Rs 10,000 per month to all the construction workers who lost their job because of the government policies.

The BJP says that CM Jagan has miserably failed to streamline sand mining which led to an unprecedented crisis in construction industry in the state. Now, lakhs of workers are thrown on the roads. They are not able to eat two meals a day just because of Jagan’s vague policy.

Kanna Laxminarayana is demanding that the government should compensate for all the losses that construction workers suffered in the past five months. It’s unfortunate that Jagan is still not ensuring proper supply of sand. Very sad that the government is not bothering about the problems of poor families.