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Bhoomi Puja at venue today
To ward off all the evils, top TDP leaders and ministers will perform Bhoomi Puja at the venue of Mahanadu in Andhra University Engineering College grounds on Friday.Deputy chief minister N Chinarajappa, who also holds the post of home minister, will perform the puja while other ministers Kala Venkata Rao, Ganta Srinivasa Rao and Ch Ayyannapatrudu, Anakapalle MP M Srinivas and local MLAs will be
Visakhapatnam: To ward off all the evils, top TDP leaders and ministers will perform Bhoomi Puja at the venue of Mahanadu in Andhra University Engineering College grounds on Friday.Deputy chief minister N Chinarajappa, who also holds the post of home minister, will perform the puja while other ministers Kala Venkata Rao, Ganta Srinivasa Rao and Ch Ayyannapatrudu, Anakapalle MP M Srinivas and local MLAs will be present.
Highlights:
- Party leaders say party supremo himself selected the venue as he considers it lucky
- Some student and other organisations affiliated to YSRCP and Left urge AU vice-chancellor not to allow TDP meet at the Engineering College grounds
Earlier, the leaders visited Steel Plant, Port Stadium and Old Dairy Farm but zeroed in on AU Engineering College grounds due to spacious parking place and good road connectivity.Party sources said it was Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who himself finalised the venue for sentimental reasons.“It was here Naidu concluded his ‘Vastunna Meekosam’ padayatra in 2013 and it proved to be lucky.
The next year, he won the elections with a huge majority,’’ said a senior leader of the party.The Chief Minister asked the ministers to make it a big event as Mahanadu will be drawing national attention. After Bhoomi Puja, the ministers of north Andhra will become busy making all the arrangements.Meanwhile, the leaders are taking cautious steps to deal with a section of students who has been opposing conduct of Mahanadu at AU Engineering College Grounds.
State general secretary of YSR Students Union B Kanta Rao, Vidyarthi JAC chairman Areti Mahesh, state president of Unemployed Students Struggle Committee M Srinivas, district secretary of AISF S Lovaraju and Adivasi Vidyarthi Sangham district president M Madhu submitted a memorandum to AU vice-chancellor Prof N Nageswara Rao urging him not to allow the ruling party meet in the varsity.The leaders told the vice-chancellor that permission was never accorded for holding a political meeting in the past.
