His statement came at a time when many leaders in the MahaYuti opposed Naik's nomination and refused to campaign for him. However, Naik, who also faces opponents from within the BJP, took aggressive postures today declaring that he is quite capable of weathering this situation.
The Chief Minister flew to Rae Barelli in a special flight from Begumpet Airport on Friday morning. After participating in Rahul Gandhi's nomination filing programme, he will fly back to Hyderabad.
After a thorough scrutiny of the nominations on Friday, he had rejected the nomination of independent candidate Kallu Narasimhulu Goud. The 54 candidates have filed 90 sets of nominations.
Atchannaidu and others had attacked the YSR Congress Party supported Appanna when the latter filed his nomination for the Sarpanch post in the Nimmada village to which all of them belonged.
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