AP CM Chandrababu Naidu is all out for a do-or-die battle with the Centre on the issue of AP Governor Narasimhan’s extra constitutional activities. Naidu is leaving for Delhi today to hold discussions with national level leaders who include Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Bennerjee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and some top Congress leaders.

Naidu is very furious over Governor taking authority into his hands by talking directly to DGP and revenue officials to submit a report to Centre on the Jagan fan attack at Vizag airport. AP CM is of the opinion that the Jagan fake attack and Governor’s over enthusiasm are part of the greater conspiracy by BJP to remove TDP government in AP on some pretext or other. Modi government at the Centre is eagerly waiting for breakdown of law and order situation in AP but this is not happening because of alertness and caution on the part of AP CM and people in the state.

After holding discussions with senior leaders, Naidu will address the national media in Delhi at 3 p.m. He is going to speak at length on the BJP conspiracy to dislodge the TDP government and the Governor’s proactive role in this vicious scheme. This is the first time that Naidu has taken a strong anti-Narasimhan stand ever since bifurcation of United AP. There is a rising wave of criticism against Narasimhan’s role as Governor prior to, during and after the division of United State which left AP without a capital city of its own and with no enough revenue sources.

Naidu’s Delhi visit is expected to highlight the need for restraining Governors from causing undue harm to state governments by acting as mere agents of whichever party is ruling at the Centre. Former Governor Ram Lal’s role in removal of NTR government in 1984 would also come up for discussion in the light of charges of extra constitutional activities against Narasimhan.

AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, during his visit to US, called upon the Silicon Valley professionals and investors to come to AP and make use of the facilities being developed here for research and development in artificial intelligence and related technologies.

He took part in a round table conference on “AI – basic change’ organised in New York with experts from Silicon Valley and Wall Street exchanging their thoughts. The conference was presided by Ramana Jampala, who is a leading expert and advisor for many software firms in US.

Listing out priorities, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said that all best and emerging technologies would be brought in to AP to make them an integral part of the state’s future developmental goals. He said that way back in 1984 itself, computers were used to run administration during the time of former chief minister N.T. Rama Rao when 10 lakh documents were computerised.

Mr. Naidu further said that AP came out with a special “Artificial Intelligence Cloud Hub Policy 2019” to encourage and attract big projects in gaming and animation, IOT, DTP and start-ups. The policy was aimed at bringing ground-shifting changes in sectors like primary education where conventional low-result methods could be set aside by bringing skills of experts within the reach of all students.

For attracting investments, the AP government is offering lands at low rates in addition to creating basic infrastructure. Already, some projects were taken up in Medtech, Fintech, Black Chain, Drone Testing and Autonomous Vehicle Testing areas.

Mr. Naidu also informed the delegates that a Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to be set up in AP in order to make the state a front-runner in embracing emerging technologies like AI.

After prolonged considerations, AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has finally decided not to personally appear before Maharashtra in the next one week but in his place his lawyers will be sent there to make their submissions.

His lawyers will submit a recall petition before the court on the plea that Mr Naidu cannot appear as he has got a rare opportunity to address the United Nations Organisation (UNO) on Sep 24. The AP CM would not like to miss this rare opportunity to address an international forum none other than UNO Conclave.

It may be recalled that non-bailable arrest warrants were issued recently to CM and 18 others in the Babli agitation case filed in Maharashtra 8 years ago. The charges were obstructing the duties of public servants and causing injury to them.

Water Resources Minister D Uma and Social Welfare Minister Nakka Anand Babu were there with Naidu at the time of Babli agitation in Maharashtra.

Mr Naidu’s tour of America begins on Sep 22 when he will call on and talk to CEOs and COOs of top companies there. The visit was planned mainly after Naidu receiving an invitation from the UNO to deliver a lecture at its global conclave on “Financially sustainable agriculture: Global challenges and Opportunities”.

The prestigious invitation came after the world body took note of the rapid strides being made by AP in reaching fruits of technology and organic farming to farmers. the state has set a target of promoting natural organic farming and converting over 60 lakh farmers by 2024.

UN Environment has invited AP CM Chandrababu Naidu to deliver a keynote address on ‘Financing Sustainable agriculture: global challenges and opportunities’ to be organised on sidelines of UN General Assembly on September 24. This is really big honor and it proves UN’s recognition of AP CM’s efforts in promoting sustainable agriculture.

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

Earlier Newyork times ran a special story on organic farming and it appreciated Andhra Pradesh, that is investing $200 million to convert its farmers to the agroecological practice known as zero budget natural farming, which uses from-the-farm nutrients to grow crops without using costly chemical fertilizers or pesticides, which can push farmers into debt.

CBN will be delivering his speech on September 24th.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is reliably looking for a safe Assembly seat in Krishna and Guntur districts, as he had made up his mind to give his Kuppam seat to his son Nara Lokesh. The family members have had a talk about this during his recent visit to the family in Hyderabad and had told his son to take care of Kuppam. It was only after this family meeting, Lokesh had announced that he would contest the Assembly elections.

Having decided to give up the Kuppam constituency, Chandrababu Naidu had set his eyes on the Assembly constituencies in Krishna and Guntur districts. The sources said that Mylavaram constituency in Krishna and Ponnuru constituency in Guntur district were found to be safest places for Chandrababu Naidu this time. As Naidu would have to campaign for the party in all the 175 constituencies, he will not be able to campaign for his own seat and hence it should be the safest seat for the party. In that way, both Mylavaram and Ponnur are found to be the safest places for him, the sources added.

If Chandrababu Naidu opts for Mylavaram, the sitting MLA, Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, who is also Minister for Water Resources, would have to be moved to Nuzvid, where the party is also looking at the candidature of former Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal.

Similarly, if Naidu choses Ponnur constituency in Guntur district, the sitting MLA Dhulipala Narendra Kumar, would have to be moved to some other constituency or to be made MLC. Accommodating Narendra is not a big deal for Chandrababu Naidu. The six-time MLA had been waiting for Cabinet berth and Chandrababu Naidu can promise him the same in the event of the party retaining power at the elections. Narendra can become MLC immediately filling the vacancy caused by Nara Lokesh, the party sources said.

Telugu Desam president and Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had completed four years in office today. It was on this day Chandrababu Naidu took oath on the spacious open place right in front of the Acharya Nagarjuna University in 2014. Thus he became the first Chief Minister of the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh.

There were a lot of hopes on his leadership and his experience. As bifurcation was felt injustice and the process followed to divide the State was taken as insult, there was strong desire among the youth, mostly those who settled in the software jobs in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennia, had preferred Naidu to rebuild the State. Though margin of his victory over Jaganmohan Reddy was just 5 lakh votes, despite the Narendra Modi wave and Pawan Kalyan’s craze, several sections of the State also looked forward to him to do some wonders to build the new State.

When he assumed charge on this day four years ago, there was a little over Rs 16,000 crore revenue deficit; there was no capital and Hyderabad was the common capital; there were no Central institutions; there were no industries; there was no big city except Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. There was no source of internal revenue and almost all the urban local bodies were in neck-deep debt, including the Vizag Municipal Corporation and the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation. These civic bodies have already pledge their assets – schools, commercial complexes and stadia – to meet the administrative cost.

It was that situation when Chandrababu Naidu assumed charge. It was returning to power after 10 hard years for Chandrababu Naidu and his TDP leaders, but it was new beginning for the people. They have lost Hyderabad, a place of employment for many unemployed youth. While US had been the employment destination for a small percentage of people, Hyderabad was the US for more than 80 per cent of the unemployed youth to try their luck for living. Chandrababu Naidu had promised job for every family and unemployment stipend for these youth, besides other promises, which made these youth to look forward this experienced leader.

Four years have gone, the youth are still waiting for employment or unemployment stipend. Every family is still looking forward to Chandrababu Naidu to give a job or stipend. No additional jobs were created in the last four years, except the tall claims on Kia Motors and others and those investment MoUs that run into a few lakh crore of rupees investment in the State, which never moved even an inch out of the paper. The much talked about unemployment stipend is yet to roll out and there is a ceiling of Rs 1000 per month per youth as being prepared by the government now. It might take a few months from now to this proposal to reach the youth. There is also a cap on the beneficiaries basing on their educational qualifications, age and economic conditions. Thus these hopes too are dashed after four years.

Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu is dreaming of playing a key role in the national politics by building a third front. The third front, an alternative to the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA, is seen as potential force to form the next government. The front is likely to consist of the regional parties. Though Telangana Rastra Samithi president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had mooted the idea of floating a third front, the idea now runs around Chandrababu Naidu who is seen as better option than Chandrasekhar Rao.

The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have already tied-up with the Congress and the unity was seen in the recent by-elections in Uttar Pradesh where they have defeated the BJP. This arrangement is likely to continue for the 2019 elections, if one goes by the success they have witnessed in the by-election. Nationalist Congress Party’s Sharad Pawar in Maharastra and Trinamool Congress party’s Mamata Benerji in West Bengal too are soft towards the Congress and may not say no to Rahul Gandhi’s leadership.

The DMK in Tamil Nadu and JanataDal (Secular) in Karnataka are already in the Congress bag and may not prefer an alternative to the Congress, giving leadership to Chandrababu Naidu. The Janata Dal (Secular) will not take the trouble of breaking alliance with the Congress at the cost of its power to provide platform for Chandrababu Naidu to play in the national level. Leaders like Sharad Yadav prefers to the Congress –led alliance and has no reason to go against the Congress.

In the NDA kitty, two parties, Telugu Desam Party and the Shiv Sena, have already walked out from the BJP, while others may not differ at this point of time. Ram Vilas Paswan and others are comfortable with the NDA and there is no reason for them to look for Chandrababu Naidu to form the alternative front.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is looking at the five Lok Sabha seats now represented by the YSR Congress party in the State, anticipating a by-election. The five YSR Congress MPs have submitted their resignations and are pressing for acceptance to force a by-election. The five MPs have met Lok Sabha speaker on May 29 and are scheduled to meet again on June 6. This is likely to be the final meeting of the MPs with the speaker to get the resignations approved. Once the resignations are approved by-election is likely to be held as there is more than six months’ time for the next general election.

Chandrababu Naidu wants to test his popularity in this election by contesting. Though the MPs have resigned in protest against the denial of special category status to the State, Chandrababu Naidu wants to contest here alleging that he is the better leader than Jaganmohan Reddy to get the special category status and develop the State. He wants to prove to the people he is the only leader fighting for the State, while others are playing politics.

Setting his goal to win all five Lok Sabha seats, he dared Jaganmohan Reddy to get the MPs resignations approved and face him in the by-election. Chandrababu Naidu had already gone into the election mode. He had tuned up himself for the elections and is now tuning his party leaders and cadre for the polls. He is making best use of the Nava Nirmana Deeksha to tune up the people too for the next election. He plans to win at least 130 MLA seats and all 25 MPs seats in the 2019 elections. To achieve this, he wants to test the peoples’ pulse in the by-election for the five Lok Sabha seats, which covers 35 Assembly constituencies spread over four districts of Prakasam, Nellore, Chittoor and Kadapa districts.

For the first time in his career, Chandrababu Naidu is preparing to go alone, without alliance with any party. He had done with all parties except the Congress in every election and there is no party left. He had aligned with the CPI and CPM in the past, with the BJP and Jana Sena in the last election. As there is no party available for him now, he is going alone and wants the by-elections to the five Lok Sabha seats as a laboratory to test his new fete.

The YSR Congress MPs are confident of getting their resignations approved by the Lok Sabha Speaker when they meet her on June 6. This is two days ahead of Chandrababu Naidu’s week-long Nava Nirmana Deeksha event, which is set to end on June 8 and that gives him enough mileage to reach out to the people with the by-poll slogan. He has to win all the five seats, if he wants to win the next election and if he loses here, that would mean his party’s defeat in 2019 elections. Hence, he had dared Jaganmohan Reddy to get the resignations approved and by-election scheduled.

Thus, in every aspect, it is a tough time for Chandrababu Naidu and his party.