Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy known as on former Chief Minister Okay. Chandrasekhar Rao in Hyderabad on January 4, 2024.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy known as on former Telangana Chief Minister Okay. Chandrasekhar Rao at his Nandi Nagar residence on Thursday after the latter underwent a hip alternative surgical procedure final month.
He was warmly obtained by BRS working president Okay.T. Rama Rao, Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Kumar Joginapally and former Ministers of the BRS authorities. This is Mr. Reddy’s first go to to Telangana after the BRS misplaced and the Congress shaped the federal government.
Though the two-hour assembly over lunch was termed as a courtesy name to investigate in regards to the well being of KCR, who’s recuperating from surgical procedure, it got here at a time when Mr. Reddy’s sister Y.S. Sharmila joined the Congress get together in New Delhi.
What transpired between the leaders was not revealed to the general public; it’s learnt that the two shared their views on the ballot ends in Telangana that noticed the ouster of KCR after two phrases. The assembly assumed significance after Mr. Jagan made sizzling feedback that his household was being divided for political positive aspects. Andhra Pradesh is scheduled to go to polls in April and May together with the Parliament elections.
Both Mr. Reddy and KCR share a standard political foe within the type of former AP chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. It is broadly believed that KCR had a task within the defeat of Mr. Naidu within the 2019 elections and he prolonged assist to Mr. Jagan in a number of kinds together with financial assist and focusing on Mr. Naidu’s election assist groups working from Hyderabad at that point.
Right after his election in 2019, Mr. Reddy known as on KCR at Pragati Bhavan (now Jyotirao Phule Praja Bhavan) to thank him for the ‘support’ and additionally focus on sharing of waters between the two States. Their friendship since then had been sturdy and the strain created on the Nagarjunasagar Dam on November 29, a day earlier than Telangana went to polls, was considered as a deliberate try to lift Telangana sentiment to favour KCR within the elections. Water was launched by the AP authorities from the dam with the AP police groups leaping the barricades within the night time to open the gates and resulting in pressure.
Congress had alleged that the transfer, coming a couple of hours earlier than the polling, was intentional and Mr. Jagan’s authorities wished to create an impression that solely KCR may safeguard Telangana’s pursuits. However, the incident didn’t affect the elections anyway and the BRS was routed in Nalgonda district the place the dam is positioned.