After one of the biggest electoral triumphs of his life, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, chief of the Telugu Desam Party, is set to begin a record fourth term as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. And with his return to power, hopes are sky high in the beleaguered state, marked with little to no development, investment, job creation or infrastructure upgrade for the last five years or more. After taking oath on Wednesday in the presence of political and cultural bigwigs, including his NDA partners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and J.
P. Nadda, and former vice-president of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, besides a galaxy of film stars including Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, and Telugu megastar K.
Chiranjeevi, whose younger brother and Tollywood power star K. Pawan Kalyan is the boss of the Jana Sena Party, a crucial NDA ally, and a minister in the new Andhra Pradesh Cabinet, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu is all set to hit the ground running. He is also the all-time longest serving Telugu CM, with the intense pressure of high expectations of over five crore people of Andhra Pradesh upon him.
They would expect miracles from the former CEO of Andhra Pradesh, Inc., as he was called during his first two terms as CM of united AP, with a fair claim of having re-imagined and recreated Brand Cyberabad. Mr Chandrababu Naidu, whose business friendly policies, proactive push to build Hyderabad into a global destination for software and pharma inve.
