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Lokesh is for AP what KTR is for Telangana!

Lokesh is for AP what KTR is for Telangana!

It looks like Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is blindly imitating his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao in grooming his son Nara Lokesh into an able administrator.

According to reports reaching here, Naidu is learnt to have decided to give the portfolio of Information Technology and Communications, besides Industries and Commerce to Lokesh, when he would be inducted into the cabinet in a couple of weeks.

He reportedly told Lokesh that the IT sector is very crucial for Andhra Pradesh, which has so far not witnessed any major IT industry. He recalled how the IT sector received a boom in Hyderabad when he was the chief minister of combined AP between 1999 and 2004.

In Telangana, KCR’s son K T Rama Rao is holding the same portfolios of IT and Industries. While he has the advantage of an already established IT sector in Hyderabad, he has brought it more focus in the last two and a half years. So, if Lokesh is given the same portfolios in AP, he can also a good job, Naidu feels.

Lokesh is likely to file his nomination for the MLC seat under the MLAs’ quota on March 6. An announcement to this effect is likely to make on Sunday, party sources said.

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