Synopsis: The most controversial of all is the “informal” meeting of the Cabinet, Lokesh has been having at his residence for some months now. This meeting takes place over breakfast a few hours ahead of the formal Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Naidu. Officially, the 24-member Cabinet meets not less than three times a month and so does it as many times “informally”.

Is Nara Lokesh, projected as the “poster boy” for Andhra Pradesh, the “extra-constitutional face” of the NDA government in the State, handling almost all official business without holding the title of Chief Minister? Or is it a case of being “groomed” to eventually take over from his father and Chief Minister, 75-year-old Nara Chandrababu Naidu?

Tongues are wagging within the Telugu Desam Party

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