Naidu to move into 20,000 sq ft vaastu-compliant bungalow today
HYDERABAD: He moved his entire administration to Andhra Pradesh’s new capital Amaravati. But chief minister Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is not keen to shift his family from Hyderabad which he had nurtured for nine years during his earlier stint as chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu is scheduled to move into a brand new palatial bungalow at Road No. 65, Jubilee Hills on Sunday morning.
The five-storey bungalow, which approximately measures over 20,000 sq ft, is vaastu-compliant and was built under the personal supervision of his wife Bhuvaneswari, who heads the family enterprise Heritage Foods.
According to the Telugu Desam Party sources, Naidu would formally perform housewarming ceremony, followed by Satyanarayana Vratam, in the presence of only family members. “It is strictly confined to family
and not even his closest TDP leaders have been invited to the event,” a party spokesman said.
The new bungalow has come up in place of his old residence located at the same place, where he stayed for 30 years before moving to Amaravati. The area of the original building was 1,125 square yards.
Subsequently, Naidu’s family acquired another piece of land measuring 1,285 square yards adjacent to the original house. The new bungalow has been constructed in the total area of these two plots.
Unconfirmed reports say the total cost of construction is around ₹10 crore. Naidu and his minister-son Lokesh raised a loan of over ₹7 crore from Bank of Baroda. Sources said the bungalow has a huge conference room for Naidu to hold meetings whenever he comes to Hyderabad, besides chambers for his office and security staff.
chief minister Yogi Adityanath hit out on Saturday at those refusing to sing the national song, Vande Mataram, saying it reflected their “narrow mindedness”.
“Some people are saying that we will not sing Vande Matram... we want this country to move ahead in the 21st century and the matter of dispute is that we will sing Vande Matram or not...this is a matter of concern. We will have to find a way out to overcome this narrow mindedness,” Adityanath said.
His remarks came against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party corporators protesting a proposal to make singing of the song compulsory at beginning of proceedings of a meeting of Allahabad municipal corporation. The recent incident came days after corporations in Meerut and Varanasi too witnessed similar ruckus over the issue.