Most of the key appointments in Chandrababu Naidu administration are resulting in discontent among TDP cadres. They are surprised that several officers who were known to their proximity with previous YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s regime and against whom TDP itself levelled severe accusations, are now again placed in key positions.
It may be recalled that when Jagan came to power in 2019 all those who were in key posts during Chandrababu’s regime were thrown aside. Starting from the SPs and Collectors at the district level to the secretaries and chief secretaries at the state level, no one has been left behind. In the end Jagan sidelined those who acted neutrally and worked methodically.
They put the seal of ‘They are all TDP’ and pushed them into unimportant posts. Those officers were threatened. In a way, for five years, all these officers experienced deep emotional distress. Now the government has changed. Chandrababu became the Chief Minister. But distress continues among such officials even now.
During the election campaign, Chandrababu has warned officials, who had identified themselves with CM Jagan and harassed TDP leaders stating that ‘We will solve the account of false officials’. Nara Lokesh’s rage before the election by saying ‘Red Book’ is understandable.
During Jagan’s regime, many officers wore the ‘blue’ color and acted as if ‘YCP said the Vedas’. Their involvement in large scale corruption and massive irregularities in administration became much talked about during the poll campaign.
But after coming to power, all the words of Chandrababu and Lokesh were drowned in the ‘victory chorus’. Nothing has happened except that a handful of officials were kept aside without giving postings.
During Jagan’s regime, the officials who worked under intense pressure and acted neutrally, now unable even to get an appointment with the Chief Minister to represent their agony. Officials present at Chief Minister’s Office said to be creating a gulf between CM and such officials.
Most of the officials at CMO are said to be closely associated with Jagan’s regime. A senior TDP leader suspected that some hidden force was influencing Chandrababu’s administration.
