Tech savvy Naidu and his IT ways

On a trip to India in 2000, the then US President Bill Clinton, made a special point of visiting Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. He wasn’t there to see the city’s famous Salarjung museum or the 1,000-pillared temple at Warangal; instead, he went to observe the amazing experiment in e-governance that has revolutionised the way AP citizens interact with their State,” Blair Campbell wrote in an article in Profit, a monthly magazine published by Oracle Corporation, US.

AP’s former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, who was at that time obsessed with near perfect Singapore, introduced Information Technology in governance with finesse. Off course, his experiment failed to enthuse the huge chunk of population, particularly the farming community as “trickle down” concept that he believed in never happened.

“I was wrong as I relied too much on one sector, if I have another chance I would like to change that,” he wished in a recent interview.

He has now launched an online campaign to enrol members in his party. “Anybody can take TDP membership in just three minutes from anywhere. No other party in the country has this facility,” Naidu gushed.