Another senior journalist from Sakshi media group is all set to get into the YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, if the reports coming from the power corridors of Amaravati are to be believed.
Popular anchor and columnist Kommineni Srinivasa Rao is likely to be appointed as chairman of Andhra Pradesh Press Academy.
The chief minister is learnt to have cleared Kommineni’s appointment and orders to this effect are likely to be issued shortly, sources said.
The news comes a day after the appointment of former editorial director of Sakshi K Ramachandra Murthy as the advisor to the chief minister on public policy.
Kommineni, once considered to be a man of Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s inner circle, served Eenadu group for a long time in Hyderabad and New Delhi.
Later, he moved to electronic media, joining NTV as a news anchor conducting debates for a long time, before he was allegedly shunted out of the channel at the behest of “small boss” of TDP Nara Lokesh, who apparently did not like Kommineni making critical comments against the TDP.
Later, he joined Sakshi group and has become a close confidant of Jagan’s family. He is now being rewarded with a prominent post.