{"id":11995,"date":"2016-09-11T06:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2016-09-11T06:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T06:01:43","slug":"babu-takes-sons-advise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/babu-takes-sons-advise\/","title":{"rendered":"Babu takes sons advise\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0In 1990s when the United Front government wanted him to take over as Prime Minister, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu let go the opportunity on the advise of his son who told him that the PM&#8217;s post was &#8220;temporary&#8221;. Babu was those days called as the King maker. He claimed that he was the King maker for Abdul Kalam and also Deve Gowda. He was making Presidents and PMs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My son Lokesh, now Telugu Desam general secretary told me the Prime Minister&#8217;s post is temporary but the Chief Minister post is permanent. So, I did not accept the prime minister&#8217;s post,&#8221; the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister told reporters in an informal chat on the occasion of his 35th wedding anniversary.\u00a0Naidu had served as the convener of United Front.<\/p>\n<p>It was in 1997 when the United Front government was in power at the Centre that Mr Naidu was chosen by the United Front leaders to be the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Babu was just two years old as Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh at that time but, given his party&#8217;s numerical strength in the Lok Sabha, played a key role in bringing various parties together to forge the United Front.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In 1990s when the United Front government wanted him to take over as Prime Minister, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu let go the opportunity on the advise of his son who told him that the PM&#8217;s post was &#8220;temporary&#8221;. Babu was those days called as the King maker. He claimed that he was the King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,2],"tags":[4889,4887,3017,4890,4817,4888,4886,4885],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gossips","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-abdul-kalam","tag-advice","tag-ap-cm","tag-deve-gowda","tag-n-chandrababu-naidu","tag-prime-minister-post","tag-son-lokesh","tag-tdp-chief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/lokesh-naidu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}