Chandrababu Naidu leads from the front

Since the onset of torrential rains and resultant flash floods in Vijayawada a week ago, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been a ball of energy, wetting his feet and overseeing relief efforts with his hands on all aspects of the disaster. Defying the odds of age at 75, Naidu has unclogging bureaucratic rigmarole to provide timely assistance to the affected families, many of whom had been without power for over three days.
As he had promised during the recent Collector’s Conference, he proved to be the ‘Chandrababu of 1995’, leaving many IAS and IPS officers on his team scrambling to keep pace with him. His swift and dynamic leadership has shaken the bureaucracy of all vestige of lethargy. Officers who had failed to delivere and who were ‘caught in the act’ were warned of serious consequences. Naidu is no mood to listen to excuses: it’s action now or ‘Get lost’.