Recall: NTR ousted from CM post TODAY August crisis is well known term among all TDP fans. Exactly 20 years back On Aug 26 present CM and then finance minister Chandrababu Naidu dethroned NTR from CM chair. In'August 26 1995, Naidu staged a coup against NTR, in an apparent attempt to oust NTR's second wife, Lakshmi Parvathi
Most of the TDP MLA's sided with Naidu and camped at the Viceroy Hotel in Hyderabad, the centre of the revolt. Since most of the legislators had gone over to his side, he gate crashed telugudesam party and took the symbol cycle symbol to escape from anti defection law. NTR called the coup a planned treachery and lambasted Chandrbabau' for being power-hungry . NTR called Naidu as Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor who jailed his father and killed his siblings to become the King of the Mughal Empire
CBN assumed CM chair after dethroning NTR and CBN gradually gained popularity in the public as a leader with development motive in alter years' and NTR incident faded away from people's memories. NTR died on'18 January 1996and Lakshmi Parvati succeeded him as the head of TDP (NTR) which no longer had any representation in the state legislature.
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News Posted: 26 August, 2015
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