Southern Comfort
Seldom does a politician miss an opportunity to showcase what he can do best on home ground. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu did just that at the India Today Conclave South in Visakhapatnam. With the parliamentary election and a simultaneous election to the 175-seat Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly looming large, Naidu went to great lengths to explain how he is forging a formidable front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cohorts to save democracy and the nation'.
Ditto with Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy. He didn't miss the chance either to use his wit to good effect. When she (Kiran Bedi) is not obeying the law herself, but she wants me to abide by it. She wants to do the job of a chowkidar, not the Lieutenant Governor. BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, a strategist on lien from the RSS to the party, who hails from Rajahmahendravaram, and Jayadev Galla, the dapper MP from Guntur, also fired smart one-liners to enliven the conclave.
Like in the previous two editions, the third south conclave too was a vibrant platform that brought together people of divergent persuasions to air their views. While Union minister
