It has been nearly two years since Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu took over as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
All these days, he has been hoodwinking the people attributing his slow pace of governance to the bifurcation blues.
And as the third year is approaching, he is said to be feeling a little tense as there is nothing much for him to claim credit.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have told his Cabinet colleagues the other day that the government had to do something remarkable in the next one year, so that he could face the people boldly in the next elections.
“Whatever we do, we have to do this year itself. In the last two years, even if take up any project, we would not be able to complete it; and the last year will be totally election year and the people would have come to a conclusion as to whom they would vote for in 2019,” he reportedly told them.
Naidu desperately wants the capital issue to be resolved in the next one year. While the constructions for temporary official buildings are going on at brisk pace, there is little progress in the actual capital construction as the designs are yet to be finalised.
No payment has been made to the farmers who had lost their lands for the capital and no alternative sites had been shown to them.
“If at least half of the capital city is built, we can go to the people for votes with some confidence in the next elections,” Naidu is learnt to have said.
