Did Maoists carry out recce for Naidu?

Delhi police also reportedly alerted AP Bhavan over the loopholes in his security.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs issued a general alert following the killing of 30 Maoists in a gunfight with the police in the Andhra-Odisha border area in October and also keeping in view the fact that Naidu had survived an assassination bid in 2003, the DGP explained.

The police chief said the state police was capable of taking care of the situation and protecting the VIPs on the hit-list of Maoists.

Unmindful of the perceived threat from the outlawed Left-wing extremists, Chandrababu Naidu, at a media briefing, said he has no enemies and that he has no fear for his life too.

“I did harm to no one and I always wish everybody to be happy,” he said while refusing to be drawn into the issue relating to the recceing by the Maoists at AP Bhavan.

Following the killings of Maoists in the Andhra-Odisha border area, a letter purportedly written by the outlawed CPI (Maoist) was sent to media houses in which it threatened to take revenge on Naidu. The outfit had threatened a suicide attack on Naidu and his son Lokesh.

Currently, Naidu is under 'Z plus' category protection and his security detail includes members from the elite National Security Guard apart from Andhra Pradesh police's Intelligence Security Wing.

Naidu had survived a claymore mine attack by Maoists on October 1, 2003 in Tirupati. Naidu, who was then the Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, had sustained injuries
in the blast.