Naidu in soup over ‘TDP yellow’ paint for Anna Canteens. Shoe on other foot after YSRCP colours fiasco
Hyderabad: Five years ago, the Jagan Mohan Reddy government was dragged to court after it painted the gram panchayat and village secretariat buildings in Andhra Pradesh in the colours of the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party’s (YSRCP) flag, which it was then ordered to remove. Now, the current administration in the state led by Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is facing the same charges.
The present objection is to the painting of Anna Canteens—reopened by the Naidu government in August—in yellow hues associated with the TDP.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has admitted a petition by Chandra Sekhar Reddy, former president of the Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers’ Association, which questions the yellow paint, with a stripe of red, on the government-run canteens serving sub...