Andhra Pradesh Minister for Higher Education Ganta Srinivasa Rao is said to be extremely upset with his boss and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for caring a damn for him in Visakhapatnam politics.
For some time, there have been reports that Naidu might drop Ganta from the State Cabiinet in the forthcoming reshuffle.
As if adding fuel to the fire following these reports, the Chief Minister recently turned down the request of Ganta for appointing his close aide Prof Narayana as the Vice Chancellor of Andhra University.
While Ganta is of the view that the Chief Minister should consider his request as he has every right to recommend the names for VC post in the capacity of Higher Education Minister, the Chief Minister reportedly conveyed to him that VC post is not a political appointment and as per norms, a person with high academic calibre should be given the post.
Despite intense lobbying and repeated phone calls to the CMO, the search committee constituted for the VC appointment did not take Prof Narayana’s name into consideration. This has terribly upset Ganta.
On the other hand, Naidu is also not happy with Ganta for hobnobbing with Chiranjeevi at Sarainodu audio function. Apparently, he felt there is something cooking between Ganta and Chiranjeevi – may be on setting up of a studio at Visakhpatnam.
It remains to be seen how long this cold war between Ganta and Naidu will go on.
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