Faced with mounting criticism for going ahead with the wedding celebrations of his son hours after the twin bomb blasts in the state capital on Saturday evening that killed 44 people and injured about twice as many, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu lost his shirt while on a visit with his extended family to Tirupati on Monday.
The preceding day's jibes at his decision to go ahead with the wedding in spite of the tragedy, got to him, and Naidu blasted the officials of the Balaji temple administration for not booking enough and the best rooms for them.
For a man who has been on the political centre-stage and aspires to become the CM again, the TDP supremo%u2019s decision not to downplay his son's much publicised wedding celebrations was surprising.
No wonder, it continues to draw flak in view of the fact that the state had witnessed the worst terror strike just the previous day. Perhaps, by going ahead with the ceremony, Naidu is trying to say politics and personal matters must be kept separate, proffer his apologists. But the detractors are far too many.
"Naidu should have downplayed the wedding after the bomb blasts," said an angry Hyderabadi, Sunit Reddy. Many found his de-linking politics with family ironical considering he rose in politics to become the CM by dethroning his father-in-law and veteran actor N T Rama Rao.
"Minutes after the blast, Naidu spoke to TV channels. But he seemed preoccupied and couldn't say anything beyond that
