TDP re-elects Chandrababu Naidu as party president

TDP supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been reelected as the president of the party for the next two years, the party said on Wednesday. TDP election committee chairman Varla Ramaiah announced the result of the election on the second day of the three-day Mahanadu, the party's annual conclave in Kadapa and later administered the oath of office to Naidu amid cheers.
Later, addressing the conclave, Naidu thanked the party leaders and cadres for continuously electing him as TDP president since 1995 and called it ‘history’. “This is history. Being the president of the party for these many years and to run it efficiently I have used all the power that God gave me to work,” he said, vowing to uphold the faith reposed on him for another couple of years.
Observing that meaningful deliberations were conducted on the first day of the conclave, including the unveiling of the six key resolutions, Naidu said an action plan has been charted out for the next 45 years. “When you look at these two, I do not have any doubt that as long as Telugu people’s history is there TDP will be there,” said Naidu, adding that no other party has the power to put the Telugu community on top of the world than TDP.Focusing on the Rayalaseema region, which is notorious for water scarcity, the CM promised that he would not let this part of the state become a desert. Assuring to complete several irrigation projects in this region, the TDP supremo noted that if water could be channelled from the Polavaram Project to Banakacherla, then it will be history.
As Rs 10 lakh crore worth investments are expected to come into the renewable energy space in the state, Naidu said Rayalaseema region will stand to emerge as a green energy hub. Reiterating the ‘promise’ of not hiking power charges, Naidu said he is committed to it and blamed the erstwhile YSRCP government for the current rise in power tariffs under the TDP-led NDA government.