The Andhra Pradesh cabinet reshuffle and expansion on Sunday triggered dissidence in a section of the legislators of ruling Telugu Desam Party.
For quite some time, there had been talk that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu might drop senior minister Bojjala Gopalakrishina Reddy.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has come under fire for inducting four YSR Congress party MLAs into his cabinet as part of expansion on Sunday.
Despite having a relatively clean image and being a non-controversial person, IT Minister Palle Raghunath Reddy has been booted out from the cabinet.
Not long ago, when Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, during a rally in Hyderabad, made some strong comments against a Telangana MLA who had defected from the TDP into the Telagnana Rashtra Samithi to become a minister.
It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has given importance to defectors from other parties, rather than those who have been loyal to the party right from the beginning, in the reshuffling and expansion of his cabinet on Sunday.
The reshuffle of the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet has expectedly resulted in a lot of disgruntlement within the Telugu Desam Party, as those who were dropped and also those who could not make it to the final list have started expressing their anguish rather openly.
After a lot of calculations in caste, regional and political equations, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has finalised the list of 11 new faces to be inducted into his council of ministers, while sacking five sitting ministers.
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It is going to be tough time for Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu from Sunday, when he takes up the expansion and reshuffle of his cabinet.
With just a few hours left for the expansion and reshuffling of the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet, political speculations have gone to their peak in the media circles, based on the inputs flowing in from the Telugu Desam Party ranks.
It looks like witch-hunting of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has started in a big way, with the latter taking aggressive posture on the NDA government at the Centre and the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh.
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