TIA NEWS /
Hyderabad: Keeping their political bitterness aside, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu today met his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao and invited him for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new state capital in Amravati.
This was Naidu’s first visit to Telangana CM’s residence after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay foundation stone for new capital Amaravati on october 22.
The two leaders were engaged in a bitter war of words after a legislator of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was caught red-handed in May while trying to bribe a nominated legislator of Telangana to make him vote for the party candidate in Telangana legislative council elections.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) had accused Naidu of being the mastermind in the cash-for-vote scandal. An audio tape of Naidu’s purported telephonic conversation with nominated Elvis Stephenson was also aired on some TV channels.
Naidu had hit back by complaining to the central government that his phone was being tapped by Telangana government.