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Newsmaker: Kanna Laxminarayana appointed as Andhra Pradesh BJP chief

Not sure of his chances, Laxminarayana had already been making arrangements to join the YSR Congress after duly sending a resignation letter to BJP president Amit Shah on April 24

Kanna Laxminarayana
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Kanna Laxminarayana

B Dasarath Reddy
The appointment of Kanna Laxminarayana as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP’s) Andhra Pradesh unit president was announced only a day after the Karnataka Assembly polls were over, amid intense lobbying for the post by senior party leaders in the state. 

Laxminarayana was on his way out after waiting patiently for a bigger role in the BJP ever since he joined the saffron party in October 2014.

The exit of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the resignation of Kambhampati Haribabu as BJP’s state unit president on

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