Can a CM be a CEO too?
AN a chief minister in India wear the hat of a CEO of the State carry the day? The answer seems to be an emphatic no going by the verdict of the people of Andhra Pradesh. Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, during his record-breaking, nine-year stint as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, prided himself as the CEO of the State, and often it went well with the industry, which perceived him as the poster boy of reforms. But at the hustings, the final test of a politician’s performance, the image has indeed taken a beating. The tech-savvy CEO rubbing shoulders with industry leaders and jet-setting to get top multinational corporations to invest in the State, has not been able to convince the people who see him as merely paying lip service to their real problems of water, power, health, literacy. Whether it was at the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos or while addressing self help groups (SHGs) in a rural setting, Mr Naidu brought in the trappings of corporate thinking into his style o
