Rajya Sabha member Rapolu’s tight slap to Chandrababu at the BC meet

Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu faced some embarrassing moments at a public meeting of the Backward Classes here when Congress leaders V. Hanumantha Rao, Ponnala Laxmaiah and M. Anjan Kumar Yadav walked out soon after his arrival on the dais while youth holding placards in support of separate Telangana shouted “go back” slogans at him.

But that was not all, the worst for him came from Rajya Sabha member Rapolu Anand Bhaskar, who spoke ahead of Mr. Naidu. While many wondered why he was hanging around when his colleagues from Congress staged a walk-out, he threw a bomb. He said he stayed back to recall publicly that he was a victim of Naidu’s manipulative politics, when the appointments of Information Commissioners took place 2 years back. He revealed that Mr. Naidu set up obstacles to his appointment on the ground that he was a political activist and took away that opportunity from him. Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar who is a post graduate in Sociology, a journalist by profession and an intellectual, said that indeed became a blessing for him as that changed his track and he has now become an MP! The finishing touch is that, Mr. Bhaskar shook hands and had a word with Mr. Naidu before he left.