Hyderabad: Even as YSRC has begun attacking TDP’s efforts to organise the swearing- in ceremony of N Chandrababu Naidu as the first chief minister of Seemandhra on a grand scale, the yellow party leadership has sent invitations not only to national leaders but also to several top industrialists across the country for the oath-taking ceremony of Naidu, scheduled to take place on June 8 in Guntur district.
According to TDP sources, Naidu has sent invitations to business tycoons in the country which include Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani along with his brother Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Group, Wipro chairman Azim Premji, NR Narayana Murthy of Infosys, and Gautam Adani of Adani Group, Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, chairman of Tata Group and Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra. The TDP has also invited several business honchos from the state.
Meanwhile, YSRC MLA G Srikanth Reddy wondered how Naidu, who had recently asked the people of Seemandhra to donate money generously for the construction of new capital, could organise his swearing-in function on such largescale by spending crores of rupees.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have conveyed his inability to attend the swearing-in function of Chandrababu Naidu. According to sources, the PMO has sent a message to the TDP leadership that Modi might not attend the ceremony as he is busy with the ongoing Parliament session.
But, according to sources, the prime minister has opted to skip Naidu’s swearing-in as the BJP Telangana leaders requested him to do so, saying that Modi’s open inclination towards Seemandhra is sending wrong signals to Telangana people about saffron party’s commitment to the development of new state.
According to sources, though Naidu had already sent out feelers that his swearing-in ceremony would be a ‘one-man show’ as he wants his Cabinet to take oath on an another day, the TDP chief has now second thoughts on the same.
Naidu also changed his mind over timing of his swearing-in. Though he had at first announced that he would take oath at 11.45 a.m., on June 8, later he changed it to 7.27 p.m. on the same day.
Bureau Report
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