THE RENAME GAME

Actor-turned-TDP MLA N. Balakrishna, son of TDP founder and legendary politician N.T. Rama Rao (NTR), is peeved with Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy renaming the NTR University of Health Sciences after his own father, the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on September 21. Balakrishna, who was not in the House the day this happened, has warned Jagan that people and panchaboothalu (five elements) will dethrone him. Never mind that Jagan had renamed Krishna district after NTR earlier this year. What’s bigger, a district or a university, Jagan’s followers ask.