Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan took Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu on a trip down the memory lane when the latter called on him at the Raj Bhavan here this evening.
"I was an IPS officer (serving in the Intelligence Bureau) when you were Chief Minister (between 1995 and 2004). You used to visit New Delhi regularly. K Yerran Naidu, then leader of Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party, represented to me that your security has been scaled down.
"And I saw to it that your security was enhanced," Narasimhan reportedly told Naidu.
The TDP chief then recalled the services of Yerran, who was killed in a road accident in late 2012. "It's unfortunate that Yerran Naidu is no more," the Governor said.
The Governor told the newly-elected TDP MLAs, who accompanied their leader to the Raj Bhavan, that Naidu, whose party won a clear mandate in the just-concluded polls in Seemandhra, was a hard worker.
"If you too work hard like him, you will earn a good name," Narasimhan reportedly remarked.
The Governor then enquired from Naidu when he would take oath as Chief Minister of (new) Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu replied that it would be only after the "Appointed Day" (June 2) when the bifurcation of AP would be formally completed and the two States (Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh) come into being.
The TDP chief, who spent over an hour at the Raj Bhavan, also had a ten-minute one-on-one interaction with Narasimhan where they were said to have discussed the Government formation issue in detail.
Asked when and where the swearing-in ceremony would be, Naidu told reporters outside the Raj Bhavan that the date and venue would be decided in two-three days.
