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Follow UsThere is no political leader in India in recent times who has
single-handedly changed the image of a city as much as
Naidu has done for the city of
While Bangalore got its IT investment due to a variety of factors over
a period of time, Chandrababu Naidu is credited with pro-actively
selling
to IT companies and doing all
that is possible to get investment to the city, in a much shorter time
frame. It is his constant effort that resulted in top software makers
like Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon and Convergys choosing the city for
their development centers even as many others such as HSBC, Bank of
America, ADP, and Google made the city their back offices. Even GE,
which is credited with kick-starting the BPO revolution in India chose
Hyderabad as its second major center after Gurgaon.
That changed Hyderabad in more ways than one. To get investment, Naidu
actively worked on improving the infrastructure in the city as well,
apart from selling. And of course, when many investors did buy Naidu's
story and decided in favor of investing in city, they created lakhs of
jobs in the city. For a long time, Chandrababu Naidu was the role model
for all the chief ministers who wanted to woo investors.
Till, he lost his own job. Naidu was accused of promoting Hyderabad,
even while farmers were committing suicide in villages. Whether that
was true or not, he lost the elections.
Yet, if and when Telangana is carved out as a separate state, Hyderabad
will most likely go to it, as it is part of that region. Naidu's home
district is Chittoor, part of the backward
region. In fact, the other city
that gained in some manner because of Naidu's IT vision —
Vishakhapatnam — is in the third geographic region:
Andhra/Coastal region. Incidentally, even most of the engineering
colleges that supply human capital to Hyderabad's IT companies are
either in Telangana region itself or the coastal region.
That is the irony of Indian politics. Till a few days back, discussions
on who hails from which region, seemed so out of place. Today, as
Andhra Pradesh burns, that has become the hottest issue under
discussion. After this, few politicians would look beyond their regions
ever to work towards real development.
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