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BJP names Lakshminarayana as its Andhra chief

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BJP names Lakshminarayana as its Andhra chief

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the appointment of Kanna Lakshminarayana as its President in Andhra Pradesh.

BJP President Amit Shah named Lakshminarayana as the new head of the state unit. He succeeds K. Haribabu, MP from Visakhapatnam.

The development came as a surprise as Lakshminarayana announced last month that he will quit the party and join the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).

The 62-year-old leader, who hails from Kapu community, had aspired for the top post but after the BJP leadership indicated that he will not be given the responsibility, he decided to switch loyalties.

He had even fixed the date to join main opposition party but postponed his move, citing ill health. BJP sources said the party’s central leaders persuaded him to wait till the Assembly elections in Karnataka.

Lakshminarayana, a five-time state legislator from Guntur district, severed his nearly four-decade association with the Congress to join the BJP in 2014, a few months after the elections.

He served as minister and held various portfolios in the cabinets of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, K. Rosaiah and Kiran Kumar Reddy.

He was given the responsibility to head the BJP weeks after state’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) pulled out of BJP-led NDA at the Centre over the issue of special category status to the state. Later, the BJP also pulled out of the coalition government in the state.

Lakshminarayana will have the big task of leading the party’s campaign for the 2019 elections which it may have to contest alone amid criticism from rivals for going back on the promise of according special status to Andhra Pradesh.

The BJP, which fought the 2014 elections in alliance with the TDP, bagged four Assembly and two Lok Sabha seats. The coalition won 17 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 106 of 175 Assembly constituencies.

BJP leaders point out that the party had polled about 7 per cent votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha and over 2 per cent in the Assembly polls. They claim that the party has huge scope for improvement in vote share and seat tally.

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Lakshminarayana on three-day tour in Srikakulam

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Lakshminarayana on three-day tour in Srikakulam

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan had toured Srikakulam district initially and batted for the mysterious kidney disease patients of Uddanam area. Three years after that, former IPS officer and former joint director of the CBI, V V Lakshminarayana is now touring the area for the next three days. He would be meeting the kidney disease victims and interact with them in the next three days starting from Thursday.

After Pawan Kalyan’s visit the Central government had sanctioned 10 dialysis centres to address the dialysis requirements of the kidney patients. For all these years, the poor patients have been visiting Visakhapatnam for dialysis and the opening of the dialysis centers had come as some solace to their woes.

Now, with political ambitions, Lakshminarayana has set his eyes on the kidney disease patients. His first interaction after voluntary retirement was with the farmers in Guntur district, where he proposed greater initiatives to make agriculture profitable. He had made his mind clear that he would spend his time working for the farmers. Now, with the kidney diseases, it is clear that he would be touching most pressing issues of the people across the State.

Lakshminarayana would be spending his three days touring Palakonda, Itchapuram and Amudalavalasa Assembly constituencies of the district.

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Jagan seeks 6months exemption, Laxminarayana refuses to speak on DA case

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Jagan seeks 6months exemption, Laxminarayana refuses to speak on DA case

Former Joint Director of CBI and Maharashtra Additional DGP Lakshminarayana responding to a question on the disproportionate assets case and allegations against Andhra Pradesh opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, said “I’m working in Maharashtra now. I cannot talk anything now”

Lakshminarayana participating in National Swadeshi Suraksha rally held in Vijayawada on Saturday requested the public to inform the government immediately if they knew about the corrupt officials.

On the other hand, the YSRCP supremo filed a petition in the CBI special court requesting exemption from attending the court every Friday for a period of six months so that he can go-ahead with his Padayatra in the state. He noted that being a people’s representative he needs to get face-to-face information about the problems faced by public. The court will be hearing the matter on October13.

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