The telugu Desam Party's two-day biennial political summit, Mahanadu, will end on saturday evening, coinciding with the start of the tdp founder-president and former chief minister N T Rama Rao's birth centennial festivities. It has been 26 years since ntr died of a heart attack, and it was widely assumed that one of the key causes for his early death was his son-in-law and current tdp president N Chandrababu Naidu's backstabbing.
Naidu has used NTR's name multiple times to garner political mileage over the last two and a half decades, and it is evident that the party is still surviving on his image. During this time, Naidu was also heavily involved in national politics. Despite this, Naidu has made no attempt to campaign for ntr to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honor. Only through the efforts of NTR's daughter Daggubati Purandeshwari was NTR's portrait able to be displayed on the wall of the parliament annexe. Even at home, when Naidu was in power for 14 years after NTR's death, he did not consider renaming a district after him.
When the district of kadapa was named after Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, which he had continued between 2014 and 2019, he did not have that concept. Now, Y S jagan Mohan Reddy, Naidu's longtime rival and current chief minister, has named the newly formed vijayawada district after the famed actor in his centennial year. The tdp leader, on the other hand, did not say anything in response to the gesture. There was no word on ntr district on saturday, when the telugu states were marking the start of NTR's birth centenary year and the tdp was holding Mahanadu, where Naidu showered adulation on his father-in-law.
Naidu has used NTR's name multiple times to garner political mileage over the last two and a half decades, and it is evident that the party is still surviving on his image. During this time, Naidu was also heavily involved in national politics. Despite this, Naidu has made no attempt to campaign for ntr to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honor. Only through the efforts of NTR's daughter Daggubati Purandeshwari was NTR's portrait able to be displayed on the wall of the parliament annexe. Even at home, when Naidu was in power for 14 years after NTR's death, he did not consider renaming a district after him.
When the district of kadapa was named after Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, which he had continued between 2014 and 2019, he did not have that concept. Now, Y S jagan Mohan Reddy, Naidu's longtime rival and current chief minister, has named the newly formed vijayawada district after the famed actor in his centennial year. The tdp leader, on the other hand, did not say anything in response to the gesture. There was no word on ntr district on saturday, when the telugu states were marking the start of NTR's birth centenary year and the tdp was holding Mahanadu, where Naidu showered adulation on his father-in-law.
