Naidu Setting A Not-So-Good Precedent

If reports appearing in a section of media is to be believed, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is planning to induct Kidari Sarvesh, Son of Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao who was assassinated by Maoists recently. A minor cabinet shuffle to induct ST and Minority Ministers is being mooted for a long time.

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The shuffle will happen this month itself. Earlier when Bhuma Nagi Reddy passed away, his daughter Bhuma Akhila Priya was given a chance. But Akhila Priya was already an MLA back then. But then, Sravan is now politically novice and this induction will send wrong signals.

Council Chairman NMD Farooq may be taken into the Cabinet in Minorities Quota. He hails from Rayalaseema where minorities population is high. This will be the last Cabinet Shuffle before the Assembly Elections in 2019 and it has to be seen if these inductions will please those sections.