TDP baton passing to younger hands

Will N Chandrababu Naidu's son Lokesh be able to manage the old guard the way his father did?

The contrast could not have been more obvious. At the recently concluded Mahanadu (national council) meeting of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) at Visakhapatnam, many of the original founders of the party were absent or silent and it was the unstoppable rise of the family of Chandrababu Naidu that was on show, very publicly. N Harikrishna and N Balakrishna, the sons of N T Rama Rao and among those who put the party on the map, were not present: although one is a politburo member and the other a member of the state Assembly from Hindupur.  

Harikrishna’s name was called