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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Special Correspondent
What was significant was that the pandemonium prevailed right in the presence of the District Telugu Yuvatha President, N. Amarnatha Reddy, and the District Minister, B. Gopalakrishna Reddy, besides scores of top district party leaders including MLAs and MPs. The bedlam started minutes after the meeting got under way after the leaders offered garlands to the TDP founder, NTR's bust put up at the venue. About half a dozen youths, presumably in an inebriated condition, climbed on to the stage and kicked up a row over the absence of Nara Ramamurthy Naidu, the CM's younger brother and former Chandragiri MLA, at the venue and even questioned the propriety of the leaders conducting the programme without him. The motley group was however pushed out by others and the meeting showed sings of resuming when suddenly nearly half the crowd at the meeting got up, raised pro-Ramamurthy Naidu slogans and announced that they were walking out protesting against not only the absence of their "leader'' but also agains the "raw deal'' meted out to him. When the proceedings at the meeting resumed, though with a truncated gathering, neither the District Minister, B.Gopalakrishna Reddy, nor the State Telugu Yuvatha President, N.Amarnatha Reddy, nor the scores of MPs and MLAs who were seated on the dais made any reference to the ugly scenes that preceded the meeting but went ahead with their routine rhetoric as though nothing had happened. The unsavoury incident brought under sharp focus once again the simmering Congress-type inner-party squabbles that have been plaguing the ruling TDP in the CM's native district of Chittoor and in Tirupati for quite sometime now. As though to confirm the bickerings among the TDP's top-brass in the district, the Tirupati Municipal Chairperson, K.Sankar Reddy, a close confidant of the Chief Minister, was conspicuous by his absence on the plea that neither he nor his followers were "invited'' leave alone involved in the Telugu Yuvatha rally which of course ended in a fiasco. The sordid episode, occurring hardly a week before Mr. Naidu's arrival in his home-turf is sure to cause him embarrassment besides giving enough ammunition to his detractors.
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