Arrest of Chandrababu Naidu: a planned strategy or a reflexive one?

According to a number of political analysts, the hasty arrest of the leader of the main Opposition party was a hasty response from the ruling party. This may be counterproductive because Chandrababu Naidu will undoubtedly use it as a platform for gaining votes for sympathy, according to them.

It appears that Andhra Pradesh CID officials' sudden arrest of former Chief Minister and national president of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Nara Chandrababu Naidu from his camping site in Nandyal has set the stage for a fight between the TDP and the ruling YSR Congress for the General and Assembly elections in 2024.

While a few political savants term it as an automatic response from the decision party, others say that it was an arranged technique of YSR Congress and Mr. Naidu has seen it coming his direction.

Chandrababu Naidu capture live updates

Mr. Naidu has been establishing the vibe for his capture, by openly talking at all open gatherings that he could by captured quickly, and that the State government was contriving with the police for getting it done, and even had gone to the degree of saying that his life and his child's life (Nara Lokesh), were under danger. He had gone to the degree of passing something similar on to Association Home Clergyman Amit Shah, two or multiple times, when he met him in the new times.

According to a number of political analysts, the hasty arrest of the leader of the main Opposition party was a hasty reaction from the ruling party and may have been counterproductive because Mr. Naidu will undoubtedly use it as a platform for gaining votes of sympathy, according to them.

It is felt that Mr. Naidu was getting momentum, as his new transport visit and his mission 'Babu Guarantee - Bhavishyathu Ki Assurance' program was to a great extent being named as a triumph, remembering for Boss Pastor's fortification pockets in Rayalaseema district as was Nara Lokesh's 'Yuva Galam' 4000-km long Statewide padayatra.

TDP winning four MLC seats in the new races and winning in around 10 seats out of 32 in the nearby body decisions are supposed to be marks of Mr. Naidu's vertical pattern. In particular, the assertions that he is getting closer to top BJP leaders and that he is forming an unannounced alliance with the Jana Sena Party may be the reason why the ruling party has stopped the course.

Although leaders of the TDP, JSP, and BJP have largely condemned it and referred to it as "political vendetta" and vindictive politics, leaders of the YSR Congress have vehemently denied it. Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, YSRC's advisor for public affairs, had made it abundantly clear that the arrest was a result of the "law taking its own course," and neither the party nor the state had any involvement in it.