Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s ‘MLAs’ Day’ is used by the leadership to promote Nara Lokesh, the CM’s son, within the party.
At a recent TDLP meeting, Mr Naidu had assured the party MLAs that from January onwards, on every Saturday he would meet MLAs at the Lake View guest house to know their problems.
Accordingly, on Saturday, the Chief Minister met the MLAs. Mr Lokesh had also came to Lake View guest house along with his father and he too held an one-on-one meeting with MLAs separately.
For the first time, Mr Lokesh participated in an official meeting to discuss the co-ordination between the government and party.
Around 25 MLAs and MPs met Mr Naidu and later had a word with Mr Lokesh. The CM and his son occupied separate rooms in the guest house.
Mr Naidu asked the MLAs about the problems in constituencies and received representations from them. He also directed his peshi officials to take action and solve some of the problems immediately.
Later, Mr Naidu asked the MLAs about the performance of the TD government and the public opinion. Mr Naidu was particularly interested in knowing about the mood of the people on farm loan waiver scheme.
The MLAs later met Mr Lokesh separately and talked about party membership and district-level politics.
In the afternoon, before leaving for lunch, Mr Naidu held a core committee meeting with minister Yanamala Rama Krishnudu, party leaders Kala Venkat Rao, Somireddy Chandra Mohan Reddy, Payyavula Kesav and government Chief Whip Kaluva Srinivasulu.
Mr Lokesh said that the party should act like a bridge between the government and the people. Top sources in TD said that the Mr Lokesh has conducted a survey on the performance of the government and party MLAs.
The survey report revealed that most of the people were satisfied with the performance of the CM, though most of the MLAs scored negative marks.
People felt official and political corruption has increased. The survey report said that 73 per cent people are in favour of the TD, 13 per cent favoured YSRC and 1.5 per cent favoured BJP. Almost 78 per cent of the people expressed satisfaction with the performance of the CM.
