Newsmaker: Nara Lokesh, another son rises higher

The day after Nara Lokesh was sworn in as a minister in his father’s Cabinet, local media used the phrase ‘Son-rise Andhra Pradesh’ to state the obvious fact. 

The media simply replaced the letter ‘U’ by ‘O’ in ‘Sunrise Andhra Pradesh’, a branding campaign widely run by the Chandrababu Naidu government for the truncated state in the past couple of years. While Lokesh was initiated into party activities much ahead of the 2014 elections, his inevitable role in the AP government came almost three years after Naidu came to power. 

Lokesh was born in 1983, right after his grandfather and