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‘Christian CM’ taunt not forgotten, YSRCP goes full tilt to attack Naidu after temple wall collapse
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‘Christian CM’ taunt not forgotten, YSRCP goes full tilt to attack Naidu after temple wall collapse

In February 2020, less than a year of Jagan in the CM office, the chariot of the Prasanna Venkateshwara Swamy temple was charred in a fire in Nellore district. This episode was followed by sporadic cases of temple vandalism, desecrations of idols in several places such as Pithapuram and Rajahmundry.To make matters worse, the 40-ft tall wooden chariot of Lord Lakshmi Narasimha at Antarvedi caught fire under mysterious circumstances in September 2020. Tensions prevailed at the temple town in East Godavari district, as the BJP, the JSP, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindu outfits intensified agitation over the chariot gutting.Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Naidu and his JSP counterpart Kalyan had then sought a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) probe, pointing to a pattern in i...
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A house for Mr Naidu, finally in Amaravati. Tale of two CMs & their accommodations in AP capital
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A house for Mr Naidu, finally in Amaravati. Tale of two CMs & their accommodations in AP capital

Hyderabad: Over a decade after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and the state’s administrative set-up shifting to Amaravati in 2016 under his command, Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is finally going to have a home of his own in the area being developed as the state’s sole capital. Naidu was often derided by the opposition YSRCP for not possessing his own living space in Amaravati. The TDP chief was termed a visitor. On Wednesday, Naidu, along with his wife Nara Bhuvaneswari, and grandson Devansh, performed the bhoomi-pooja, a Hindu initiation ritual for house construction. Naidu’s son and state minister Nara Lokesh and his wife Brahmani also took part in the ceremony held at their plot near the state secretariat at Velagapudi village in Amaravati capital area. Following the TDP-led NDA...
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Behind Naidu-Daggubati hug, a 3-decade political saga shaped by power struggles, NTR family history
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Behind Naidu-Daggubati hug, a 3-decade political saga shaped by power struggles, NTR family history

Naidu and Daggubati are married to NTR’s daughters Bhuvaneswari and Purandeswari, respectively. The TDP founder has four daughters and eight sons, most famous of them being Telugu film-star-cum-TDP MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna aka Balayya.While Bhuvaneswari, Managing Director of Heritage Foods, is not directly involved in politics, her akka Purandeswari, a former Union minister with the Congress, is now the Andhra state BJP president.Through the 1980s and 90s, Naidu and Daggubati were locked in an intense, often bitter, yet largely covert battle for control of the TDP’s political power. “They were like two power centres then, north-south poles, and we leaders, legislators, often found ourselves caught in between,” Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary, one of the senior-most TDP leaders and a seven-tim...
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When an officer from the Chief Minister’s Office asked for a journalist’s source
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When an officer from the Chief Minister’s Office asked for a journalist’s source

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa signs papers at Fort St. George in Chennai on May 16, 2011. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Recently, several prominent personalities paid tributes to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on her 77th birth anniversary. I had followed Jayalalithaa’s public life from the beginning. She, like me, was also once a resident of T. Nagar, a shopper’s paradise in Chennai.Every observation and interaction yielded new discoveries. On May 16, 2011, when she was sworn in as Chief Minister for the third time, I saw how strongly she could express herself without saying a word. When I bent forward to give my visiting card to her at the Chief Minister’s chamber at Fort St George, the seat of the T...
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Nara Lokesh star of AP FM’s budget speech, Oppn calls it the Naidu family ‘praise parade’
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Nara Lokesh star of AP FM’s budget speech, Oppn calls it the Naidu family ‘praise parade’

Hyderabad: The budget speech by Andhra Pradesh finance minister Payyavula Keshav on Friday turned into a family spotlight moment. The speech was peppered with praise for Nara Lokesh—son of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu—crediting him for everything, from luring big businesses to revamping schools, AI in schools, to delivery of government services through WhatsApp. The opposition YSRCP called it a “praise parade” for the Naidu dynasty instead of a plan for the people. Political observers said the commendation aligns with a growing trend within the TDP to position Lokesh as the party’s undisputed successor. “This wasn’t a budget speech; it was a coronation speech,” said one political observer. Show Full Article Things got hot on the political front in January ...
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Murmurs of Naidu-Kalyan rift grow as dy CM skips review meet, evades calls, goes on temple run
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Murmurs of Naidu-Kalyan rift grow as dy CM skips review meet, evades calls, goes on temple run

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan’s absence at a review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and the CM’s phone calls to the minister going unanswered have set tongues wagging about a rift in the ruling alliance in the state. Kalyan’s Janasena Party (JSP) is a junior partner in the tripartite National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in AP. On Tuesday, the deputy CM stayed away from a Naidu-led sector-wise review of departments at the state secretariat in Amaravati. The JSP chief heads the panchayati raj and rural development and rural water supply portfolio, as well as forests and environment and science and technology portfolio, in the Telugu Desam Party-led Andhra Pradesh government. Show Full Article At the review meeting...
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