Andhra Pradesh By-poll

• TDP wins by-poll in Andhra Pradesh

  Telugu Desam Party (TDP) today comfortably won the by-election from Avanigadda Assembly seat in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.

• Frequent by-polls in Andhra Pradesh burdening exchequer

  The frequent bye-elections in Andhra Pradesh, five times since the 2009 assembly and Lok Sabha polls, are putting substantial burden on the public exchequer. According to official sources, the cumulative cost of all the five by-polls is about Rs 70 crore.

• Can Jagan Mohan Reddy make inroads in Telangana?

  On a day the party her husband heads won 15 out of 18 assembly seats and the Nellore Lok Sabha, Jagan Mohan Reddy's wife, Bharathi Reddy, says they just took things as they came. "People must be thinking we worked on some master strategy to come to this day but there is absolutely nothing like that. We just took it as it came and reacted to whateve...

• Election results: Jagan sweeps polls; will be Chief Minister in 2014, predicts sister

  Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother, wife, sister and brother-in-law are at Chanchalguda jail right now; family celebrations are in order despite the somber settings. The YSR Congress is close to sweeping the Andhra Pradesh by-elections so big that it has not even spared the Congress its Nellore Lok Sabha seat.

• Andhra Pradesh by-polls: Counting begins, all eyes on Jagan Mohan Reddy

  Jagan Mohan Reddy may be in jail but all eyes in Andhra Pradesh are on him and the YSR Congress. Counting has begun across 12 districts in the state for one Lok Sabha and 18 assembly seats.

• Andhra Pradesh by-polls: All Jagan's men

  Counting for 18 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh will take place today. YSR Congress, whose leader Jagan Mohan Reddy is in jail, is expected to sweep the by-polls. Here's a look at some of the candidates who are YSR Congress' best hopes for victory.

• Counting for Andhra Pradesh by-polls today

  Counting of votes for 18 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh will take place today. By-elections here were held on Tuesday.

• By-elections to 18 assembly, one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh today

  The stage is set for polling in the crucial by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh today. As many as 46,13,589 voters would exercise their franchise at 5,413 polling stations set up in the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency and 18 assembly segments, spread over 12 districts in the state.

• Campaigning ends for Andhra Pradesh by-polls

  A bitter campaign came to an end on Sunday in the Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly constituencies for Tuesday's by-polls, which are being seen as a semifinal before the 2014 general elections.

• Jagan's constituency tense after gunfire, clashes with opposition TDP

  The constituency of jailed politician Jagan Mohan Reddy, is tense on account of clashes between supporters of Mr Reddy and the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

• Election Commission rejects Andhra Pradesh government's plea for reduction of tax on petrol

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) is said to have flatly rejected the Andhra Pradesh government's plea to permit it to reduce sales tax on petrol by three per cent to "provide relief to people in view of the recent price hike."

• Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother to campaign in by-elections

  With the arrest of YS Jaganmohan Reddy on charges of corruption, his mother Vijayamma will now campaign for the YSR Congress in next month's by-elections. Vijayamma, the honorary president of the party, was requested to do so after the party's central governing council held an emergency meeting Monday.

• Election Commission rules out postponing Andhra Pradesh by-elections

  Andhra Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal on Thursday ruled out the possibility of postponing the June 12 by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 18 assembly constituencies in the state saying the law and order situation was under control.

• Para-military forces to be deployed for Andhra Pradesh by-polls

  Several companies of para-military forces along with local police would be deployed to ensure peaceful bye-elections in Andhra Pradesh on June 12, state DGP V Dinesh Reddy said.

• Congress, TDP conspiring to arrest me in 3-4 days: Jagan

  Kadapa MP and YSR Congress President Y S Jaganmohan has launched a frontal attack on ruling Congress and main opposition Telugu Desam Party accusing them of hatching a conspiracy, in concert with CBI, to have him arrested in next 3 to 4 days in disproportionate assets case.