Andhra Pradesh: Megastar Chiranjeevi and Rajinikanth on Wednesday attended the swearing-in ceremony of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu as Andhra Pradesh chief minister.
Chiranjeevi and Rajinikanth were spotted at the ceremony held at Gannavaram Mandal of Kesarapalle IT Park in Vijayawada. Both of them wore white outfits for the ceremony.
Chiranjeevi and Rajinikanth were welcomed by actor-politician Nandamuri Balakrishna.
After reaching the program, Balakrishna also met Union Ministers Chirag Paswan and Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu.
He was seen interacting with former Tamil Nadu CM O Panneerselvam on the stage.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Nitin Gadkari, among others, attended the event.
This is the fourth time Naidu has taken over as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and the second time after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state in 2014.
Naidu first became CM in 1995 before the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and led the state for nine consecutive years till 2004. The TDP supremo returned as chief minister of bifurcated Andhra in 2014 and held the post till 2019.
Naidu’s son and TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh, Union Minister Rammohan Naidu and actor-turned-politician Nandamuri Balakrishna were also present on the occasion.
Naidu had led the TDP-BJP-Janasena National Democratic Alliance to a landslide victory in the Assembly as well as the Parliamentary elections.
The TDP supremo was unanimously elected the leader of the NDA in the Andhra Assembly at a meeting of TDP, Janasena Party and BJP MLAs on Tuesday.
In the 175-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly, the TDP has 135 MLAs, while its allies Janasena Party and BJP have 21 and 8 MLAs respectively. The opposition YSR Congress Party has 11 MLAs.
