Rama Krishna Sangem
Nara Chandrababu Naidu of TDP will be sworn in a new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at a glittering ceremony near Vijayawada on June 12, Wednesday. Pawan Kalyan, president of Jana Sena will be the Deputy CM of AP. TDP, Jana Sena and BJP together contested as NDA partners in the just concluded AP assembly elections and won 164 out of the total 175 MLAs.
This Naidu’s second term as CM of bifurcated Andhra and fourth term, if the stints of CM combined AP too are included. He was AP CM from 1995-2004 and CM of new Andhra from 2014-19. Pawan Kalyan will be entering the assembly for the first time. He unsuccessfully contested from two assembly seats in 2019 elections.
Around 25 MLAs would be inducted into the new Cabinet. Close to 18-20 would be from TDP while 3-4 from Jana Sena and two from BJP would be made ministers. Prime Minister Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and several other NDA leaders would be present at the swearing in ceremony to be held around 11.30 am on Wednesday.
Chandrababu Naidu was on Tuesday chosen as the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh by the MLAs of his Telugu Desam Party as well as legislators of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jana Sena.
“All MLAs of BJP, Janasena and TDP have given their consent for me to become Andhra Pradesh’s upcoming Chief Minister of NDA government,” Naidu said.
Earlier in the morning, Naidu was unanimously elected as TDP legislative party leader, party leader K Atchen Naidu said. In another meeting, Pawan Kalyan was elected Jana Sena legislature party leader and BJP too elected a leader separately.
On Sunday, two TDP MPs were inducted into the Modi’s council of ministers – one Cabinet and another Minister of State. One BJP MP too was taken into the Team Modi.
