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Chatterbox: Andhra CM seeks to correct religious imbalance in his govt

Naidu never had to worry about issues like this when he was with the BJP

Chandrababu Naidu
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief, Nara  Chandrababu Naidu, is looking around for a person who will correct the religious imbalance in his government. He has two vacancies in his 20 member cabinet after two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers, Kamineni Srinivas and Paidi Manikyala Rao, quit post the TDP-BJP split. But there isn’t a single Muslim minister in the government — simply because there are no Muslim MLAs in the TDP who won seats in 2014. 

The two MLAs in the party have crossed over from the YSR Congress. Giving berths to defectors on the basis