OPINION | BJP’S STRONGEST ALLY CHANDRABABU TAKES OVER AS CM
India TV NewsPrime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the new Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with a warm hug on Wednesday, after the latter was sworn in as Chief Minister at a huge gathering in Medha IT Park in Kesarapalle near Vijayawada. Watched by South matinee idols Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, NTR Junior and Mohan Babu, former Chief Justice of India N. V. Ramanna, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda and former Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, the new AP CM was administered oath by Governor S. Abdul Nazeer. Several BJP leaders wanted the party to ally with YSR Congress, but Prime Minister Modi’s own assessment was that BJP should ally with Telugu Desam party. ODISHA GETS FIRST BJP CM Odisha will get its first BJP government on Wednesday with Mohan Charan Majhi, a tribal leader, to be sworn in as Chief Minister in Bhubaneswar. Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal lost the assembly and Lok Sabha elections this time because of the chief minister’s former private secretary V K Pandian.