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Camaraderie on display between Naidu and KCR

In fact, moments before the Prime Minister unveiled the plaque of the new capital, Naidu, who was standing with Modi, chose to move to the other side to be with KCR and even put his arm around the latter briefly.

Hyderabad: There was much camaraderie on display between Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao on the occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony at Uddandarayuni Palem near Vijayawada on Thursday.
KCR, as the Telangana chief minister is known, was seen tagging along with Naidu right through, from receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Gannavaram airport in Vijayawada, going around the Amaravathi pavilion depicting the past glory and the future representation of the proposed capital city, to participating in the foundation stone laying ceremony.
In fact, moments before the Prime Minister unveiled the plaque of the new capital, Naidu, who was standing with Modi, chose to move to the other side to be with KCR and even put his arm around the latter briefly.
Naidu also ensured that the Telangana chief minister was accorded the same respect as others in the rituals that went with the foundation stone laying ceremony.
The two chief ministers have been at loggerheads over various issues post the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Naidu's gesture of personally calling on KCR at his official residence in Hyderabad to extend the invite for the ceremony seems to have thawed the ice, something which even Modi acknowledged in his speech.
KCR, in his brief address after the foundation stone ceremony, said his best wishes were with Andhra Pradesh to prosper and hoped that Amaravathi would emerge as a model and modern capital. "Telangana will always extend all assistance to Andhra Pradesh in its progress," he said.
Naidu, during his speech, in return said that he and KCR were on the same page when it came to the development of the two States. "KCR and I share the same sentiments when it comes to moving forward. We have to work together and resolve issues facing the two States amicably, and I am confident we will do it," he said.