Highlights of India Today Telugu issue dated April 2nd, 2013. The issue carried the English issue's Big story "UPA at the mercy of UP" as cover story. It projects the latest development in UPA lead Government. it also discussed the reasons of DMK chief Karunanidhi's decision leaving from UPA and how the Dravidian parties using the Lankan Tamil issue for their political gain. The 12th India Today conclave, which was broadly projects on renovating democracy, carried as special report. This story provides the vision of political leaders and other prominent persons of different fields about democracy and the changes to be need for its betterment. It also carried five big ideas of legendary persons and interviews of some celebrities. The Big story about Samajwadi Party. "The importance of being Mulayam " discussed the Samajwadi Party president's thoughts and future plans about next elections . It also discussed the law and order situation at U.P. Main story from Andhra Pradesh is about colloquium on state Budget. The item includes the financial allocations to various fields and its specialties. It also projected how congress party using this budget as a steeping stone to achieve the vote bank for next elections. CM Kirankumar Reddy's visit at Visakhapatnam remote tribal area; Textile business stalls as the traders agitated against VAT and other stories carried in Radar section. Regulars like Snippets on Telugu film industry, book review and eyecatchers were there. In eyecatchers section, Veteran Tamil actor& director T. Rajendar's debut into Telugu film industry has been carried.