Naidu Supports KCR Demand!

telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu does not mind going to any extent if he thinks it would help him gain political mileage. The latest issue, though a silly one, which Naidu has tried to capitalize was the renaming of Telugu Lalitha Kala Thoranam open-air auditorium after Rajiv Gandhi. His party leaders and cadres staged a demonstration near the auditorium on Thursday.
Now, he has got another issue to cash in on politically. With the Telangana Rashtra Samithi making a big fuss over the installation of statue of tribal leader Komuram Bheem on tank bund along with other statues, the TDP president sensed that there is a lot of merit in the demand and it would benefit the party a lot politically. So, Naidu immediately jumped to the support of the demand. He wrote a letter to Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Thursday demanding that the government immediately take measures to install the statue of Komuram Bheem on the tank bund as a tribute to the great tribal hero. Now, he cannot answer the query as to why he had not thought of the statue when he was in power.
But even before Naidu tried to gain some mileage out of the issue, the Department of Culture sent a proposal to the government for installation of Komuram Bheem statue on Tank bund at a cost of Rs 30 lakh. “Once the clearance is given, we will install the statue within 40 days,” the official said.