Who is more powerful - KE or Narayana?

25 Sep, 2014 12:36 IST|Sakshi
Who is more powerful - KE or Narayana?

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If an issue pertains to lands, can it be addressed without involving the revenue minister? Normally Never. But, if it is Chandrababu's rule, then it is definitely a big 'Yes.'

Consider this. The Chandrababu Naidu-led Andhra Pradesh government has announced the constitution of a group of ministers for examining the modalities of ‘land pooling’ for the construction of new capital for the State. The GoM has every other ministry except the all-important revenue minister KE Krishna Murthy, who is also the deputy chief minister.
Ministers Yanamala Ramakrishnudu (Finance), P. Narayana (Municipal Administration), Pentapati Pulla Rao (Agriculture), Devineni Umamaheswara Rao (Irrigation), Palle Raghunatha Reddy (Information & Public Relations) and Ravela Kishore Babu (Social Welfare) have been made members of the sub-committee.
Keeping out land issues from the purview of revenue minister, who is also the deputy CM is raising many eyebrows. Sources in the TDP say that this is because of the turf war between Narayana and KE.
It may be recalled that both have widely divergent views on the location of the Capital city. KE had said that it was unfair on the part of Narayana to have hinted that the capital would be built near Vijayawada. Since then a storm seems to be brewing between KE and Narayana.
The TDP sources say that Chandrababu had decided to not to include KE due to the pressure from the corporate educationist Narayana, who is reportedly weiling lot of influence on the AP chierf minister.

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