Keeping the Kamma and Kapu combination in mind, Mr Naidu had given the deputy CM’s post to N. Chinna Rajappa, who is a Kapu leader from East Godavari district.

Certain non-Brahmins like the land-owning Kamma and Kapu castes, who dominate the region, are effectively upper-caste. And they’ve long held power over the arts.

HYDERABAD: CASTE equations, particularly the Kapu-Kammas divide among the party leaders in the state, are said to be creating difficulties for the BJP’s central ...

RGV fires amid ‘Kapu-Kamma ... the ruling YSR Congress said that the TD’s sudden love for Chiranjeevi was a strategy to not antagonise the strong Kapu community in the backdrop of a ...

Reddy, Kamma, and Kapu communities dominate nominations for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, raising concerns about caste representation.

Eluru: The raging Kamma-Kapu conflict appears to have made its way into the ruling TDP too. The showdown between the groups of government whip Chintamaneni Prabhakar of Kamma community from ...

Three politically influential upper castes in Andhra Pradesh—Reddy, Kamma and Kapu — have cornered nearly two-third of Assembly seats in the just-concluded elections. The number of Reddy MLAs ...

HYDERABAD: Following the appointment of a new leader, K.Laxman, as president of the BJP’s Telangana unit, all eyes are now on the Andhra Pradesh BJP president’s post. However, it seems the ...

The diversity of those who contributed land told its own story: 32% were from Scheduled Castes, 14% from Backward Classes, and others from Reddy, Kamma, Kapu, and Muslim communities.